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Peer reviewedArnold, David Harvey; McWilliams, Lorette; Arnold, Elizabeth Harvey – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Used least squares analysis and simultaneous structural equation modeling to examine the bidirectional relationship between day-care teachers' lax, overreactive discipline and young children's behavior problems. Found that teachers' laxness strongly influenced child misbehavior and child misbehavior influenced teachers' overreactivity and laxness.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Causal Models, Day Care, Discipline
Peer reviewedKlemchuk, Helen P.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
A total of 86 girls of 2 to 6 years completed Level 1 spatial and affective perspective-taking tasks. Results showed increasingly accurate performance with age. Task intercorrelations and factor analyses provided support for the coherence of the Level 1 perspective-taking construct. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Construct Validity
Download full textLove, John M. – 1993
Focusing on one aspect of a study examining the child-staff ratio in California state-subsidized day care centers, this paper explores the relationship between indicators of quality and the behavior of children in day care centers. In fall 1990, trained observers spent a week in 122 day care classrooms throughout California. During this time they…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Class Size, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Walery, Nancy, Ed.; Evinger, Sara, Ed.; Dailey, Lyn, Ed.; Sherman, Marsha, Ed.; Zamani, Rahman, Ed. – Child Care Health Connections, 1999
This document is comprised of the six 1999 issues of a bimonthly newsletter providing information on young children's health and safety for California's child care professionals. Regular features include a column on infant/toddler concerns, a question-answer column regarding medical and health issues, a nutrition column, and resources for child…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Health
Peer reviewedColwell, Malinda J.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Meece, Darrell; Bates, John E.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Variations in amounts of nonparental care across infancy, preschool, early elementary school, and early adolescence were examined. Correlations among overall amounts of care provided little evidence of cross-time continuity; grade 1 self-care and grade 6 unsupervised peer contact incrementally predicted grade 6 problems; and most predictive…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), After School Programs, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1983
This instructor guide is designed for use by postsecondary child development instructors in courses that have both lecture and laboratory sections. The guide is organized into five units covering the following subject matter: foundations and assumptions about child caregiving, development of young children, indirect guidance of children's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Behavior Modification
