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Mata López, Cecil; Santelices Álvarez, María Pía; Vergés Gómez, Alvaro – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Caregivers' mentalization has gained importance in recent years, but most studies only include parental figures. Given empirical evidence showing the importance of educators in the development of preschoolers, this paper aims to assess how the mentalization and stress levels of parents and educational staff are related to attachment, ToM and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Preschool Teachers, Child Development
Meghan E. Clifford; Amanda J. Nguyen; Catherine P. Bradshaw – Grantee Submission, 2021
Social-emotional factors associated with youth aggression have largely been studied in the context of social information-processing models. The ability to accurately encode and appropriately interpret others' emotions has yet to be fully examined in the context of aggressive behavior, particularly during adolescence. Using cross-sectional data…
Descriptors: Self Control, Aggression, Theory of Mind, Social Cognition
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Spataro, Pietro; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Longobardi, Emiddia – Infant and Child Development, 2018
Previous research has consistently demonstrated that false-belief (FB) understanding correlates with and predicts metalinguistic ability in preschoolers. Surprisingly, however, there is scant evidence on the question of whether this relation persists at later ages. The present cross-sectional study sought to fill this gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Prediction, Phonemes, Receptive Language
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Pecora, Giulia; Bellagamba, Francesca – First Language, 2019
This cross-sectional study investigated the use of four verbal indices of social knowledge (personal pronouns, verb conjugations, people words and mental state language) and their concurrent relations in a sample of 287 Italian-speaking children between 18 and 36 months. Results showed that the production of all indices increased with age. Mental…
Descriptors: Italian, Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; D'Alessandro, Marta; Cerutti, Rita – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The present cross-sectional study investigated the question of whether 6 different temperament dimensions (inhibition to novelty, social orientation, motor activity, positive emotionality, negative emotionality, and attention) influenced cognitive and affective theory of mind (ToM) in 168 children (86 three/four-year-olds and 82…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Theory of Mind, Case Studies, Task Analysis
McKown, Clark; Allen, Adelaide M.; Russo-Ponsaran, Nicole M.; Johnson, Jason K. – Grantee Submission, 2013
Social-emotional comprehension includes the ability to encode, interpret, and reason about social-emotional information. The better developed children's social-emotional comprehension, the more positive their social interactions and the better their peer relationships. Many clinical tools exist to assess children's social behavior. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Cognitive Ability, Psychometrics