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Spring 2017
Emerging sense of ethnic awareness is described as a child’s growing recognition of their ethnicity and connectedness to their ethnic group. Ethnic awareness is proposed to be the foundation for ethnic identity that typically emerges in early adolescence. Ethnic awareness includes three distinct...
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How Early Childhood Educators' Beliefs About Emotions and Educator-Student Relationships Enhance Understanding of Support of Emotion Regulation for Children with Varying Abilities: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study
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Emotion regulation has been singled out as a critical component of social functioning and other psychological processes (e.g., focus attention, promote problem solving, support relationships). Early Learning and Care (ELC) educators have been identified as key agents of children's emotion...
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Maternal Employment in Early Childhood: The Complex Relationships with the Developmental Outcomes of Young Canadian Children
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This thesis focused on the associations between maternal employment in early childhood and the developmental outcomes of infant, toddler, and preschool age children in Canada. It is well established that maternal employment in the first year is negatively associated with children’s development,...
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Parental influences on executive functions in early childhood: Differential effects of harsh and sensitive parenting
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The aim of this study was to clarify the nature of the relations between specific dimensions of parenting (sensitivity and harshness) and cool and hot components of executive functions (EFs) in preschool children. As such, this study examined the additive and interactive effects of parental...
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The interplay between screen time and outdoor play on preschool children's cognitive and social-emotional development
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Objective: 1) identify distinct profiles (i.e., subgroups) of screen time (ST) and outdoor play (OP) in a sample of preschool children, and 2) examine the mean differences in specific domains of cognitive and social-emotional development between these profiles. Method: Baseline data from the...