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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Preschool age"”.
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Japanese Mothers' Parenting Styles with Preschool-Age Children
… The participants were 214 Japanese mothers of preschool-age children (101 boys and 113 girls) from several preschools in Kushiro-city, Japan. A series of two-group (boys and girls) Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out with Mplus statistical software to test the measurement models of …
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Family context and executive functioning in preschool-age children
… with executive performance in a sample of preschool-age children. Specifically, the study examined how executive functioning in early childhood relates to: (a) parental modeling of executive behavior as indexed by measures of inhibitory control and executive problem solving, (b) specific …
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Interactions Among Italian Preschool-Age Children: Aggression, Victimization, and Sociometric Status
… examined social interactions between Italian preschoolers based upon sociometric status groupings. The sample consisted of 267 Italian preschoolers (mean age 64 months) taken from early childhood classrooms in southern Italy. Drawing on previous research, preschoolers' physical and relational …
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Probing the Probabilistic Reasoning and Belief Change Abilities of Preschool-Age Children
… the belief-induction phase continued to be advantageous for catching fish. In the “belief-inconsistent” condition, the opposite was true. Importantly, in both conditions, the advantageous ponds only resulted in catching fish 75% of the time, and thus was probabilistic. Results demonstrated that …
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
The purpose of this dissertation was to contribute a theoretically and empirically sound quantitative measurement of parent early literacy behaviors, designed for Spanish speaking families. This study describes the need for and the development of a questionnaire completed by parents. A pilot test …
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A Detailed Examination of TO-infinitive Development in Typically Developing Preschool-age Children
… in typically developing children between the ages of 3;0 and 4;11 (years; months).</p> <p>Method. The current study utilized 1294 language transcripts from the CHILDES database. TO-infinitive development and TO-particle omissions were examined at the sentence structure level and at the matrix …
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Effects of Video Modeling and Visual Feedback on Handwashing in Preschool-Age Children
Young children who attend out-of-home care (e.g., preschool and daycare) are more susceptible to infections than children who do not attend out-of-home care (Bylinsky, 1994). Previous research suggests handwashing is effective in reducing risk of infection and illness (Larson, 1988). However, …
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Facilitating multisyllabic productions with a hybrid treatment approach in three preschool-age children
… to facilitate multisyllabic productions in three preschool-age children who were at the single-word stage of development. Key to this design was the selection of thirty multisyllabic targets: 15 treatment and 15 control that were matched based on semantic category and phonetic complexity. Overall, …
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Context-based functional assessment and intervention for preschool-age children with problem behaviors in childcare
… that influenced the problem behaviors of four preschool age children in a childcare center, and the effects of intervention programs which were developed based on the assessment results were evaluated. Generality to non-targeted situations and children was also investigated. In addition, …
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Synthesized speech intelligibility and preschool age children: comparing accuracy for single word repetition with repeated exposure.
… speech voices and human recorded speech in preschool age children. Methods: Eighteen preschool aged participants listened to and repeated single words presented in human recorded speech, DECtalk™ Paul and AT & T Voice ™ Michael during five experimental sessions. Stimuli consisted of repeated …
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Prevention of Spinal Deformities in Preschool-Age Children /// Профилактика на гръбначните изкривявания при деца в предучилищна възраст
… of remedial gymnastics to improve the posture in preschool-age children. The study was held in the period 2014-2015. It involved 300 children aged between 5 -7 from the city of Varna. Their posture was evaluated through somatoscopy, functional tests of Matthiass and Kiel and balance durability …
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Child life-directed versus parent-directed distraction to reduce pain and distress during an immunization in preschool age children
… regard to the reduction of pain and anxiety in preschool age patients receiving an immunization. Additionally, this research examined whether during a simple immunization the caregiver's anxiety affected the child's anxiety. The study assessed 36 children who ranged in age from four to five …
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Individual genetic variations of eight SNPs associated with risk of obesity in preschool age children from STRONG Kids Program
… excessive weight gain and obesity development in preschool-age children based on the ecological framework of the six Cs’ model. Increased food intake, which is one of the critical factors leading to the onset of obesity has been strongly associated with genetic predisposition. Variations in genes …
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An Analysis of Training, Generalization, and Maintenance Effects of Enhanced Primary Care Triple P for Parents of Preschool-Age Children with Disruptive Behavior
A brief primary care intervention for parents of preschool-age children with disruptive behavior, Primary Care Triple P (PCTP), was assessed using a multiple probe design. PCTP teaches parents procedures such as praise, modeling, incidental teaching, differential rein-forcement, time-out, planned …
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Mitigating Risk for Anxiety Among Preschool-Age Children Living in Poverty: Evaluating the Impact of Adult-Provided Social Support on Autonomic Stress Reactivity
… evaluated whether providing social support to preschool-age children during mildly stressful situations helps reduce reactivity, and whether this effect partly depends on children's previously assessed baseline reactivity patterns. The Biological Sensitivity to Context (BSC) theory proposes …
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Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Maternal Reflective Functioning and Attachment Relationship in Hispanic/Latina Women and Their Preschool-Age Children: A Qualitative Study
… responses of ten Hispanic/Latina mothers of preschool-age children, who had been victims of IPV within the last year to examine these effects. Given the researchers desire to better understand the effects of IPV on these women, the focus was on obtaining the lived experiences in the words of …
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From Structure to Function: Social and Cognitive Networks in Children Born Very Low Birth Weight
… structural underpinnings of these impairments at preschool-age, an important transitional period in development, as well as the early modifiable predictors of outcome, such as postnatal nutrition. The present thesis used a multi-modal approach to investigate altered white matter microstructure and …
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