Stephen C Messer,Karl L Wuensch,John M Diamond
Stephen C Messer
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and correlates (demographic, personality, and academic) of former latchkey status (children unsupervised by an adult after school during their elementary or middle school years) in a c...
Alfred B Heilbrun Jr,Dawna Wydra,Lisa Friedberg
Alfred B Heilbrun Jr
The strength of gender schematic development in college students was examined for different patterns of primary parent identification. Gender schema has been defined as a cognitive structure that influences the extent to which a person perc...
Self-Other Differentiation and the Mother-Child Relationship: The Effects of Sex and Birth Order [0.03%]
自我分化与母子关系：性别和出生顺序的影响
Rose R Olver,Elizabeth Aries,Joanna Batgos
Rose R Olver
We examined the effect of sex and birth order on the experience of a separate sense of self and its connection to mothers' differential involvement with sons and daughters. Results from two samples of college-age students are reported. Men ...
Zvia Breznitz
Zvia Breznitz
The relationships between reading rate, decoding, and comprehension during consecutive stages of reading acquisition were examined in this longitudinal study. Participants were followed throughout their first 5 years of elementary school. S...
John Maltby
John Maltby
Susan A Siltanen
Susan A Siltanen
The effects of three levels of context on children's metaphor comprehension were tested within a developmental stage framework. Specifically, 6- to-12-year-olds' comprehension of easy, moderately difficult, and difficult metaphors presented...
Children's Use of Schematic Concepts in Free Classification Tasks: A Closer Look [0.03%]
儿童在自由分类任务中使用图式概念的考察
Frank M Bernt
Frank M Bernt
The Written Picture Pairing Test was administered to 238 schoolchildren in Grades 2 through 6. A comparison of pairing responses across the five grades supported earlier findings that the use of abstract or taxonomic categories increases du...
Young Children's Exposure to Rhyming and Nonrhyming Stories: A Structural Analysis of Recall [0.03%]
儿童接触押韵和不押韵的故事：回溯的结构分析
Donald S Hayes
Donald S Hayes
The influence of rhyme on preschoolers' story recall was examined in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, preschoolers listened to either a rhyming or a prose version of a story, and then their recall was tested. Overall retention of content was...
Kee-Lee Chou
Kee-Lee Chou
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether participating in a uniformed group such as Boy Scouts, which can be seen as a meso-ecosystem, is likely to be beneficial for adolescents' psychosocial competence. The psychosocial compete...