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Day, Kimberly L.; Smith, Cynthia L.; Neal, Amy; Dunsmore, Julie C. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: In addition to being a regulatory strategy, children's private speech may enhance or interfere with their effortful control used to regulate emotion. The goal of the current study was to investigate whether children's private speech during a selective attention task moderated the relations of their effortful control to their…
Descriptors: Speech, Preschool Children, Self Control, Emotional Response
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Miller, Rachel L.; Dunsmore, Julie C.; Smith, Cynthia L. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: We examined relations of effortful control with parent emotion socialization practices and child social behavior using a person-centered approach in children ages 18 months to 5 years. A total of 76 parents (66 mothers, 10 fathers) completed questionnaires at screening and 6-month follow-up. There were no age differences in…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parent Child Relationship, Profiles, Social Behavior
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Perez Rivera, Marie Belle; Dunsmore, Julie C. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: We examined associations among Anglo acculturation, Latino enculturation, maternal beliefs, mother-child emotion talk, and emotion understanding in 40 Latino preschool-age children and their mothers. Mothers self-reported Anglo acculturation, Latino enculturation, and beliefs about the value/danger of children's emotions and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Acculturation, Preschool Children, Emotional Response
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Dunsmore, Julie C.; Noguchi, Ryoichi J. P.; Garner, Pamela W.; Casey, Elizabeth C.; Bhullar, Naureen – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: We examined whether "affective social competence," or the ability to effectively send and receive emotional signals and to manage one's own emotional experience, contributes to preschool children's peer relations. Forty-two previously unacquainted preschoolers were observed while participating in a week-long playschool. Greater…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Affective Behavior, Peer Relationship, Emotional Response
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Dunsmore, Julie C.; Karn, Michelle A. – Early Education and Development, 2001
Described results of the alteration of Hyson and Lee's Caregiver's Beliefs about Feelings questionnaire for use with parents in order to assess emotional understanding of children. Found mothers' developmental beliefs scores were positively related to mothers' negative emotional expressiveness, and mothers' emotion language scores were positively…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
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Dunsmore, Julie C.; Karn, Michelle A. – Early Education and Development, 2004
We examined the influence of children's peer relationships and maternal emotional socialization on children's development of emotion knowledge. Children's emotion knowledge was assessed at the beginning (time 1) and end (time 2) of their first semester of kindergarten. Children's peer interactions were measured through observations and teacher…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Emotional Development, Peer Relationship