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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Middle Childhood"”.
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Cognitive Reappraisal in Middle Childhood
Cognitive reappraisal (CR) involves changing one’s mental states in response to an emotionally eliciting event in order to down regulate the potential emotional impact. In this study, 50 children who were 9-10 years old were instructed to engage in CR during a sad film. Children were then exposed …
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Coping with Peer Victimization in Middle Childhood
… rates over a 12-month period in a sample of 296 middle school students. Broadly, the findings indicate that the ways youth respond to being bullied do not influence future victimization rates for most children. In fact, quite the opposite relationship was found. Higher levels of victimization at …
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The development of aggression in middle childhood
… The engagement in aggressive behavior in middle childhood is linked to the development of severe problems in later life. Thus, identifying factors and processes that con-tribute to the continuity and increase of aggression in middle childhood is essential in order to facilitate the …
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Foster children's sibling relationships in middle childhood
… explores children's sibling relationships in middle childhood, particularly in relation to looked after children, with the aim of obtaining an 'insider view' from the children's perspective. Foster children's current relationship qualities and processes were considered in the context of their …
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Midfrontal Theta Power and Attention in Middle Childhood
Middle childhood is a critical period of attentional development. Previous research has linked neural oscillations in the theta frequency band to controlled attentional and cognitive processes, which has been replicated in children and adults. The development of executive attention, which biases …
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Peer Influences on Risk-taking in Middle Childhood
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death and disability in children. Many injuries to school-aged children occur during unsupervised peer activities, but peer influences on risky behavior in preadolescence remain under-investigated. We examined peer context effects on reported …
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Episodic Memory during Middle Childhood: Active vs. Passive Processing
… memory and shows vast improvements during middle childhood. In this study, episodic encoding was manipulated using stimuli that were hypothesized to require active or passive processing. Nine to eleven-year-old children were presented with a recall task using lower resolution (active …
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Social Competence, Social Support, and Attachment During Middle Childhood
… Social Support, and Attachment During Middle Childhood Chairperson: Paul S. Silverman, Ph.D. The attachment style of children throughout their early years has been found to relate to social competence and social support (Marcus & Kramer, 2001). This investigation attempts to determine …
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Social Competence, Social Support, and Attachment During Middle Childhood
… Social Support, and Attachment During Middle Childhood Chairperson: Paul S. Silverman, Ph.D. The attachment style of children throughout their early years has been found to relate to social competence and social support (Marcus & Kramer, 2001). This investigation attempts to determine …
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Heterosexual social communication involving children of middle childhood years
The present study investigated heterosexual social communication between boys and girls seven through ten years of age using a series of cartoon pictures to elicit responses during individual interviews. The sample consisted of 160 public school children enrolled at Margaret Beeks Elementary …
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An examination of the development of delinquency in middle childhood.
… examining precursors of delinquency evident in childhood. Two theoretical perspectives were used to examine the influences of childhood behaviors and experiences on the incidence of adolescent delinquency and childhood deviance. Social control theory and social interactional theory were tested …
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Girls' Engagement with Computers While Creating Web Pages During Middle Childhood
… describe girls' engagement with computers during middle childhood and to delineate the factors that initiated and sustained the engagement. The research questions were: 1) What patterns distinguish how girls engage in web page development during middle childhood? 2) What roles do environmental and …
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The influence of family interaction patterns on attachment in middle childhood
… and self-containment balance of children in middle childhood. In Phase I, 20 home schooled and 20 public schooled families were administered Faces III to assess their family interaction patterns. In Phase II, one child in each family was administered the Separation Anxiety Test to assess …
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Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and parent-child affective congruence in middle childhood
Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder associated with both social cognition differences (i.e., differences in facial affect categorization) and long-term detrimental social outcomes (i.e., difficulties with employment) among those with the disorder relative …
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Cortisol in Middle Childhood: Associations with Genetic Polymorphisms and Early Environmental Risk
… was not related to children’s basal cortisol in middle childhood, and neither were the tested gene-environment interactions. Most measures of environmental risk were also unrelated to children’s cortisol, however maternal stress exposure when the child was 48-61 months old was related to higher …
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Gender-related aggressive strategies, psychosocial adjustment, and parental influences in middle childhood
The present study examined three dimensions of children's aggression: (1) gender differences in the use of physical, verbal, and indirect strategies of aggression; (2) the relations between type of aggressive strategy used and psychosocial adjustment; and (3) the links between children's …
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Attention Bias in Middle Childhood: The Impact of Effortful Control and Temperament
Identifying whether a stimulus is threatening or not is critical for staying safe. The faster one can detect a threat, the greater chance there is to avoid any potential danger. Factors contributing to the visual attention of threat are therefore informative. Previous research has examined how …
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Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood: Links with group acceptance and loneliness
Research on children's peer relations has dealt mainly with differences in children's group acceptance. Only rarely have studies examined alternative forms of adjustment, particularly children's success at close friendships. Further, the links between success in friendship and acceptance are mostly …
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An Examination of Friendship in Middle Childhood: A Test of the Similarity-Attraction Hypothesis
The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities between children and their friends. Previous research had focused on demographic similarities, with a little attention given to behavioral similarities. This study sought to expand the knowledge of similarities between friends to sociometric …
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Trajectories Of Emotion Regulation Into Middle Childhood: An Investigation Of Attachment, Temperament, And Language
… socio-demographic factors, from infancy through middle childhood, in an attempt to look at emotional regulation development over time. By utilizing latent growth curve modeling, the current study aimed to extend understanding of how child-centered factors (temperament and language skill) and …
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