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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2006
Maternal emotional expressiveness and attachment security: links to representations of relationships and social behavior.
October 1, 2006... The goal of this study was to examine whether the security of the relationship between mothers and children influenced the relation between maternal emotional expressiveness and aspects of children's social development. Fifty-one preschool...
Behavioral characteristics associated with stable and fluid best friendship patterns in middle childhood.
October 1, 2006... Five groups of children were identified using friendship nominations from the fall and spring of their fifth-grade year: (1) children with a stable best friendship with the same child (same-stable); (2) children with a mutual best friendship at...
Perceptions of friendship quality and observed behaviors with friends: how do sociometrically rejected, average, and popular girls differ?
October 1, 2006... This study examined associations between sociometric status and friendship quality using observational and questionnaire data from 139 fourth-grade girls and their friends. Multivariate analyses of covariance (controlling for ethnicity and...
How children's justifications of the "best thing to do" in peer conflicts relate to their emotional and behavioral problems in early elementary school.
October 1, 2006... In this three-year longitudinal study, children were asked to choose the "best" strategy for dealing with hypothetical peer provocations and to justify "why" that was their choice at the end of first, second, and third grades. Teachers and...
The relationship of young children's motor skills to later reading and math achievement.
October 1, 2006... This study examined empirical evidence about the relationship between motor skills at the beginning of kindergarten and reading and mathematics achievement at the end of first grade, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten...
Predicting preschool cognitive development from infant temperament, maternal sensitivity, and psychosocial risk.
October 1, 2006... This longitudinal study investigated the relative contributions of infant temperament, maternal sensitivity, and psychosocial risk to individual differences in preschool children's cognitive development. It also examined specific moderating...