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The Impact of Developing Social Perspective-Taking Skills on Emotionality in Middle and Late Childhood
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Bengtsson, Hans; Arvidsson, Asa – Social Development, 2011
A sample of 209 children was followed longitudinally to examine the impact of growing perspective-taking skills on positive and negative emotionality in middle and late childhood. Perspective-taking skills were assessed through interviews. Teachers rated children's emotional reactivity and capacity to regain a neutral state following emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Children, Perspective Taking, Longitudinal Studies
When Do Siblings Compromise? Associations with Children's Descriptions of Conflict Issues, Culpability, and Emotions
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Recchia, Holly E.; Howe, Nina – Social Development, 2010
This study examined associations between children's descriptions of sibling conflicts and their resolutions during a structured negotiation task. A sample of 58 sibling dyads (older sibling M age = 8.39 years, younger sibling M = 6.06 years) were privately interviewed about an actual conflict. Each child provided a narrative that was coded for…
Descriptors: Siblings, Age, Conflict, Birth Order
Family Emotional Processes and Adolescents' Adjustment
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Stocker, Clare M.; Richmond, Melissa K.; Rhoades, Galena K.; Kiang, Lisa – Social Development, 2007
This study examined associations between parents' emotion coaching and emotional expressiveness, and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptoms. The sample included 131 16-year-olds and their mothers and fathers. Adolescents completed an open-ended interview about their parents' emotion coaching. Adolescents rated parents' negative…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Adolescents, Fathers
Young Children's Emotional Attachment to Stories.
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Alexander, Kristin J.; Miller, Peggy J.; Hengst, Julie A. – Social Development, 2001
Interviewed 32 families concerning their narrative practices, basic information about the children's story attachments, and the mothers' beliefs and practices concerning their children's attachments. Found that story attachments were social in two ways: Children created relationships with story characters, and formed story attachments with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Diaries
Maternal Emotional Styles and Child Social Adjustment: Assessment, Correlates, Outcomes and Goodness of Fit in Early Childhood
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Lagace-Seguin, Daniel G.; Coplan, Robert J. – Social Development, 2005
The goals of the present research were to develop a modified version of an existing self-assessment questionnaire designed to measure parents' emotional style and to examine how the aspects of child regulation may moderate the relation between the emotional styles and social outcomes in childhood. Participants in Study 1 were 140 mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Construct Validity, Child Behavior, Questionnaires
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism.
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Ochs, Elinor; Kremer-Sadlik, Tamar; Solomon, Olga; Sirota, Karen Gainer – Social Development, 2001
Examined social realities of high-functioning autistic children mainstreamed in public school classrooms. Distinguished positive and negative actions and stances displayed by others. Found autistic children to be cognizant of and distressed by neglect, rejection, derision, and scorn. Reactions included oblivion, immediate behavior responses, and…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Autism, Children, Confidentiality