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Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
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after reviewing research aimed at identifying factors which contribute to responsive caregiver be... more after reviewing research aimed at identifying factors which contribute to responsive caregiver behavior, we will suggest an additional class of variables which may structure caregiver-child interactions, namely, developmental tasks to illustrate several ways in which parent-child interactions are influenced by children's progression through developmental tasks, a study of mother-child interaction in everyday tasks is presented we will argue that developmental tasks themselves are not fixed entities, but represent learning environments that are actively constructed jointly by the child and the caregiver in a given cultural and historical ecology (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2010
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2014
ABSTRACT If researchers wish to understand how classroom ecologies influence children's l... more ABSTRACT If researchers wish to understand how classroom ecologies influence children's learning at school, they will need to combine investigations of the effects of peer group networks with analyses of teachers' and parents' influences. One promising target outcome for such studies would be children's classroom engagement, because it is not only visible to peers and teachers at school, but is also apparent in children's academic activities at home. To study peer influences on engagement, socio-cognitive mapping strategies appear to be well suited, because they capture groups of peers who frequently interact with one another. Building on findings from several such studies of peer group effects, we expand the framework by incorporating influences from teachers and parents. We include preliminary analyses suggesting that peer influences are especially strong for children who do not experience much involvement from teachers and parents. Finally, we suggest that it would be beneficial if teachers were trained to keep track of peer group processes in their classrooms.
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Zeitschrift für Gerontologie
The present study was an attempt to replicate observational data on dependence vs. independence o... more The present study was an attempt to replicate observational data on dependence vs. independence obtained from American nursing home populations. For a period of three weeks naturally occurring interactions between 39 residents of a nursing home and their social partners were observed daily. The results of the replication study support the findings concerning the interaction patterns demonstrated in the American studies. Dependent behavior of residents in the context of self-care is followed most frequently by dependence-supportive behavior of social partners; independent self-care behavior as well as passive and destructively engaged behavior of residents is followed by "no response" of social partners, while constructively engaged behavior sometimes entails engagement-supportive behavior by social partners. As for the frequency distribution of the observed behavior there is both consistency as well as divergence between the American and Berlin data. These differences are ...
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L’Année psychologique, 2011
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Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
This article presents a motivational conceptualization of engagement and disaffection: First, it ... more This article presents a motivational conceptualization of engagement and disaffection: First, it emphasizes children's constructive, focused, enthusiastic participation in the activities of classroom learning; second, it distinguishes engagement from disaffec- tion, as well as behavioral features from emotional features. Psychometric properties of scores from teacher and student reports of behavioral engagement, emotional engagement, behavioral disaffection, and emotional disaffection were examined
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International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
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Psyccritiques, 2002
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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1998
The author discusses the conceptual and methodological bases of a network assessment technique an... more The author discusses the conceptual and methodological bases of a network assessment technique and presents specific examples to show how group experiences affect children's behavior.
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... A specific model has been suggested for the study of motivation in school (Kindermann, 1993; ... more ... A specific model has been suggested for the study of motivation in school (Kindermann, 1993; 1996): Children who are initially rich(in terms of their own motivation as well as in terms of their affiliates) may become richer across the time they spend with their groups, whereas ...
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Psychology and Aging, 1987
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Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2009
This study examined the validity of the Nursing Child Assessment of Feeding Scale (NCAFS) during ... more This study examined the validity of the Nursing Child Assessment of Feeding Scale (NCAFS) during toddlerhood, using a longitudinal design to assess the scale's convergence with the Toddler Snack Scale (TSS) between 12 and 36 months, and comparing videotaped interactions of 116 mother-toddler dyads. Differences between TSS mutuality classifications were found for the NCAFS subscales at each age. The pattern of mean scores followed expected directions at 12 and 36 months, but only two of the six NCAFS subscales maintained this pattern at 24 months. Significant differences were found between TSS mutuality classifications and NCAFS dyadic scores at each age. With one exception, "connected" and "marginal" dyads had consistently higher dyadic scores than dyads classified as "poor" in mutuality. There were no differences between connected and marginal dyads. The NCAFS does not appear to capture control-autonomy balance as well as the TSS, and a revision for toddlerhood may be needed.
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