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Social Comprehension and Affect-Matching in Young Children
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Mood, Darlene Weisblatt; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1978
This study examines the incidence of, and relationship between egocentric affect-matching and social comprehension in very young children. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Egocentrism, Empathy, Preschool Children
Preschoolers' Vicarious Emotional Responding and Their Situational and Dispositional Prosocial Behavior.
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Eisenberg, Nancy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
The relation of prosocial behavior of 53 preschoolers to different modes of vicarious emotional responses was examined. Videotapes were used to elicit empathy, whereas vicarious emotional responses and defensive behaviors were assessed by means of self-report, facial, and heart-rate indexes. (SH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Development, Defense Mechanisms, Emotional Response
Temperament and Social Behavior in Childhood.
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Rothbart, Mary K.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Explored relationships between three dimensions of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and control) and several patterns of behavior for 80 children aged 6 and 7 years. Found that surgency correlated positively with aggression and negatively with guilt and shame. Negative affectivity correlated positively with aggression, guilt and shame,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Aggression, Arousal Patterns