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The Handwriting Legibility Scale: A Language and Age Extension for Students with and without Specific Learning Difficulties
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Nichola Stuart; Stefania Zoia; Marina Biancotto; Anna L. Barnett – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
Handwriting is a useful skill through education, yet handwriting difficulties are common in students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), including Developmental Coordination Disorder. There are few practical tools to assess legibility, among these the Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS) shows good reliability and validity for 9- to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities
Black-and-White Thinking and Conspiracy Beliefs Prevent Parents from Vaccinating Their Children against COVID-19
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Iannello, Paola; Colautti, Laura; Magenes, Sara; Antonietti, Alessandro; Cancer, Alice – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Understanding predictors of parents' willingness to vaccinate their children appears fundamental to promote vaccine acceptability, especially in a pandemic scenario. The present study aimed to investigate the role of conspiracy beliefs and absolutist thinking in parental attitude toward COVID-19 vaccine, and the predictive role of parents'…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Parent Attitudes, Immunization Programs, COVID-19
Individual Differences Modulate the Effects of tDCS on Reading in Children and Adolescents with Dyslexia
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Lazzaro, Giulia; Costanzo, Floriana; Varuzza, Cristiana; Rossi, Serena; De Matteis, Maria Elena; Vicari, Stefano; Menghini, Deny – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Emerging evidence suggests that the combination of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and reading training may provide promising benefits for dyslexia; however, the clinical effects and the role of individual differences in tDCS outcomes for dyslexia remain unclear. To this end, the present study investigated the effects of tDCS on…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Stimuli
Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
Emotional Arousal and Regulation: Further Evidence of the Validity of the "How I Feel" Questionnaire for Use with School-Age Children
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Ciucci, Enrica; Baroncelli, Andrea; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Caprin, Claudia – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: The ability to understand and manage emotional experience is critical to children's health. This study confirmed the validity of the How I Feel (HIF) Questionnaire, a measure of children's emotional arousal and regulation, exploring its associations with measures of emotional and social functioning. Methods: The sample was comprised of…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Arousal Patterns, Questionnaires, Self Control