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Arts enrichment and preschool emotions for low-income children at risk A comparison of emotion expression and regulation in children attending both arts-integrated and non-arts integrated Head start programs, based on data from 182 low income children |
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Can classroom emotional support enhance prosocial development among children with depressed caregivers? A study of the relationship between Head Start classroom quality and pro-social behavior among children whose parents or guardians exhibit high levels of depressive symptoms, based on data from 194 Head Start preschoolers in 28 classrooms |
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Children's engagement within the preschool classroom and their development of self-regulation A study of the relationship between children's self-regulation and children's engagement with teachers, peers, and tasks, based on data from 341 children enrolled in 100 early care and education classrooms located in a large urban region in the southwestern United States, and their teachers |
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Discipline policies in early childhood care and education programs: Building an infrastructure for social and academic success A study of the development, validity, and reliability of the Early Childhood Discipline Policy Essentials Checklist (ECDPEC), designed to evaluate the quality of discipline policies, and a second study that assesses 65 discipline policies from state-licensed early childhood care and education programs, based on data from licensed service providers in Arizona |
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Do time in child care and peer group exposure predict poor socioemotional adjustment in Norway? A study of the relationship between socioemotional functioning and exposure to non-parental child care and large peer groups during the first 4.5 years of life, based on data from 935 young children with an average age of 55 months from Trondheim, Norway |
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The effects of early years' childcare on child emotional and behavioural difficulties in lone and co-parent family situations With targeted childcare initiatives and welfare-to-work programmes policy-makers have sought to address employment activation of lone mothers and negative outcomes for children in lone parent households. The present study examines non-parental childcare use and maternal employment among children living in lone and co-parent family situations at ages three and four and emotional and behavioural difficulties at ages four and five. The results demonstrate that negative outcomes associated with lone motherhood are explained largely by mother's age, education, material circumstances and area deprivation; and that maternal employment does not relieve lone mothers' disadvantages in a way that alleviates the risks of difficulties to their children. However, in any family constellation, mainly group-based formal pre-school childcare does have a positive impact on child difficulties compared to drawing on informal childcare arrangements as main provider. In addition, and specifically for the difficulties of children in lone mother family situations, any non-parental childcare -- formal or informal -- for at least twenty-five hours per week is beneficial. Study findings support policy agendas which tackle families' material hardship beyond promoting mothers' employment, and through investment in formal childcare provision, and also through arrangements allowing lone mothers to divide their weekly load of childcare with another main provider. (author abstract) |
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Is early center-based child care associated with tantrums and unmanageable behavior over time up to school entry? Background: Existing research suggests that there is a relationship between greater exposure to center-based child care and child behavioral problems though the mechanism for the impact is unclear. However the measure used to document child care has usually been average hours, which may be particularly unreliable in the early months when fewer children are in center care. In addition individual trajectories for behavior difficulties have not been studied. Objective: The purpose of the current study was to examine whether the extent of exposure to center-based child care before 2 years predicted the trajectory of children's difficult behavior (i.e., tantrums and unmanageable behavior) from 30 to 51 months controlling for child and maternal characteristics. Method: Data were drawn from UK-based families, children and child care study (n = 1201). Individual growth models were fitted to test the relation between early center-based child care experiences and subsequent difficult behavior. Results: Children with more exposure to center-based care before two had less difficult behavior at 30 months, but more increase over time. Initial levels were predicted by higher difficult temperament and lower verbal ability. Higher difficult temperament and lower family socio-economic status predicted its change over time. Conclusion: Findings suggest that early exposure to center-based care before 2 years old is a risk factor for subsequent behavior problems especially when children have a longer period of exposure. A possible explanatory process is that child coping strategies to manage frustration are less well developed in a group context, especially when they lag behind in expressive language. (author abstract) |
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The myth of American selfhood and emotion: Raising a sociocentric child among middle-class Americans In this article, I examine the concepts of the self and emotion reflected in American middle-class socialization practices. Detailed ethnographic description of everyday socialization practices in an American middle-class preschool shows that contrary to the characterization that American notions of self and emotion are predominantly individualistic and egocentric, middle-class socialization practices are highly oriented toward developing sociocentric values such as niceness, cooperation, social appropriateness, empathy, friendship, politeness, and manners. I argue that the dichotomous model of self and emotion that consists of only two types--an egocentric Western self and a sociocentric non-Western self--fails to adequately describe variations and complexity in American experiences of self and emotion. The article contributes to a growing body of research that critically discusses the bipolarized model and argues for inherent dynamism and heterogeneity in our conceptions of the self and emotions. (author abstract) |
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Social skills of first-grade primary school students and preschool education A comparison of social skills of first-grade students who received early care and education to those who did not, based on data from 521 children studying in the first grade in 11 Turkish provinces |
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Structured Play Therapy Groups for Preschoolers: Facilitating the emergence of social competence A description of Structured Play Therapy Groups for Preschoolers, a model of treatment for young children in early care and education designed to last eight weeks and engage children who may be socially challenged to develop social competence through a group process that encourages both conformity to group norms and freedom of self-expression |
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