Browsing by Subject "children"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-12)This study assessed whether 4-year-old children think a puppet has a mind separate from that of the puppeteer. 64 children, 48-60 months, watched a puppet (operated by a visible person) and another person label 3 familiar ...
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(Frontiers in Psychology, 2019-08)Background noise and reverberation levels in typical classrooms have negative effects on speech recognition, but their effects on listening effort and fatigue are less well understood. Based on the Framework for Understanding ...
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(2015-07-14)Department: PsychologyThe current study examined correlates of child negative cognitive style in a sample of 115 children and adolescents (age 9 to 15-years-old) and their mothers with varied depression histories. The present study also developed ...
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(2011-03-26)Department: PsychologyRelations among observed positive and negative parenting and children’s coping strategies were concurrently and prospectively examined in the context of an intervention study designed to change both parenting behaviors and ...
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(2006-12-20)Department: PsychologyCurrent models of chronic pain include attentional processing as an important component in the perception of pain sensations and in responses to pain such as coping (e.g., Compas & Boyer, 2001; Zeltzer, Bursch, & Walco, ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: PhilosophyRawlsian political liberalism is often rejected by feminist philosophers on the grounds that it reinstates a problematic public/private divide and includes sexist comprehensive doctrines as reasonable. My dissertation ...
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(2006-12-15)Department: PsychologyThe goal of this study was to explore the relationship between youth, family, and service characteristics and the differential, parent-reported mental health outcomes experienced by youth receiving intensive case management ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)Deficits in neurocognitive functioning are the most commonly reported adverse late effect in children diagnosed with brain tumors. However, few studies have examined this decline in functioning prospectively. The aim of ...
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(2008-05-20)Department: PsychologyRecurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is the most common type of recurrent pediatric pain. Much evidence shows that this condition adversely affects many areas of a child’s functioning, including repeated school problems and ...
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(2011-03-15)Department: PsychologyThe efficacy of Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) for treating child conduct problems is well-documented. There are nonetheless, however, several significant limitations with BPT including effect sizes that generally are ...
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(Children-Basel, 2019-08)Children and adolescents with cancer often participate in medical and psychosocial research throughout their diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, this involvement frequently extends into the survivorship period. Sometimes ...
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(2013-04-08)Department: Teaching and LearningSelf-regulation is increasingly recognized as a key component of early school readiness. Self-regulatory skills, like paying attention, ignoring distractions, following directions, and persisting on difficult tasks, are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of the study was to examine the developmental effects of duration cues by comparing the phonetic boundaries and slopes of typically-developing (TD) children to adults on a stop-glide continuum, to examine the ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: Community Research and ActionStigma related to mental health issues can pose a barrier to help seeking for children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The goals of this study are threefold: 1) to examine and compare levels of stigma towards ...
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(2010-04-08)Department: PsychologyStress, negative cognitive style, and coping were studied as predictors of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents at risk for depression. This study examined 166 children and adolescents (ages 9 to 15) of depressed ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PsychologyThe purpose of the present study was to examine the independent and joint effects of observed withdrawn and harsh parenting patterns on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms in an at-risk sample of children ...
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(2013-02-12)Department: Political ScienceThe number of children adopted into families that do not share their race, ethnicity, and national origin has steadily increased as families in developed states have turned to foreign countries for children to adopt. I ...
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(2007-12-17)Department: PsychologyFunctional symptoms, defined as symptoms in the absence of organic disease, are common among pediatric patients. Differences exist in the clinical application of the biomedical versus biopsychosocial model in the explanation ...
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(2014-11-24)Department: PsychologyMost bullying incidents occur within group settings, yet peers intervene in only a fraction of cases— even though support often stops bullying. Efforts to identify factors that increase the tolerance of meanness and decrease ...