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Affinity for Solitude in Chinese Children and Adolescents: Relations with Social, School, and Psychological Adjustment
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Xinyin Chen; Jiaxi Zhou; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined relations of affinity for solitude with social-behavioral, academic, and psychological adjustment in Chinese children and adolescents. The participants included 3,417 students (1,714 boys) in fourth, sixth, and eighth grades (M[subscript ages] = 10, 12, and 14 years, respectively) in China. Data on affinity for solitude were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Preferences
Maternal Parenting and Teaching Strategies: Relations with Children's Academic Competence
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Bucci Liddy, Colleen M.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Diaconu-Gherasim, Loredana R.; Hunter, Dietra M. – Educational Studies, 2023
We evaluated whether maternal parenting strategies (maternal achievement-oriented control and maternal monitoring) and maternal teaching strategies are related to children's academic competence in middle childhood. We also assessed whether the relations of maternal parenting strategies with children's academic competence are mediated by maternal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement, Parents as Teachers
Showing Children that We Care about Their Literacy Learning
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Sanacore, Joseph – Preventing School Failure, 2012
Children and their teachers are more likely to achieve success when genuine caring is connected to literacy learning. This connection is important because it increases the chances of success across the curriculum and through the grades. Among the ways of demonstrating a caring attitude is to provide children with opportunities to make choices, to…
Descriptors: Caring, Picture Books, Literacy, Bibliotherapy
Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools: Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning
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Leigh, Lauraine, Ed.; Gersch, Irvine, Ed.; Dix, Ann, Ed.; Haythorne, Deborah, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools" is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement
Geographic Mobility: How Do We Help Children Cope?
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Smardo, Frances A. – Childhood Education, 1981
Reviews research on the psychological and emotional effects of geographic mobility upon children, the effects upon academic achievement, and the responses of children to moving. Suggestions are given about how to help children cope with moving. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Caregivers, Children, Coping
Single-Parent Families: How Bad for the Children?
Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison – NEA Today, 1989
Development and achievement by children from single-parent families can be difficult. Various factors make divorce harder for children, but they can adjust, and teachers can help by keeping school from being one more problem (e.g,. being informed about what to expect in such circumstances and offering programs to relieve stress). (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childhood Needs, Children, Divorce
Maternal Employment and Children's Academic Achievement: Parenting Styles as Mediating Variable.
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Beyer, Sylvia – Developmental Review, 1995
Provides a review and integration of findings on the effects of parenting styles and maternal employment on children's academic achievement. Presents a model in which it is argued that maternal employment status has little, if any, direct effect on children's academic achievement. Suggests maternal employment affects parenting styles, which in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, Children, Employed Women