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View article: Psychometric Evaluation of the Strength-Based Parenting Questionnaire and Comparison of Perceived Strength-Based Parenting in Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures
Psychometric Evaluation of the Strength-Based Parenting Questionnaire and Comparison of Perceived Strength-Based Parenting in Collectivistic and Individualistic Cultures Open
This study examined strength-based parenting scores rated by a large youth sample ( N = 2,449; M = 15.03 years ± 2.94; 55.7% female; 44.3% male) collected from 9 countries classified as collectivistic (Indonesia, Israel [Arab citizens], Ka…
View article: Cuerpo, género y enfermedad en la narrativa autobiográfica de Carlota O’Neill
Cuerpo, género y enfermedad en la narrativa autobiográfica de Carlota O’Neill Open
El cuerpo femenino enfermo se encuentra atravesado por símbolos que condicionan su experiencia. Éste es considerado inferior y ajeno a la norma, por lo que la realidad social que las mujeres enfermas experimentan difiere de la del resto. R…
View article: Adaptation and Preliminary Validation of the TRUST for Primary School Teachers (TRUST-PS)
Adaptation and Preliminary Validation of the TRUST for Primary School Teachers (TRUST-PS) Open
Teachers’ social and emotional competences (SEC) are important both for their well-being and for children’s development. Although there are self-report instruments that assess teachers’ SEC, only the TRUST assesses them directly through ch…
View article: Expressive syntax matters for second-order false belief: a study with hearing-impaired children
Expressive syntax matters for second-order false belief: a study with hearing-impaired children Open
While children with typical language development may capitalize on general language skills to grasp the content of others’ minds, those with challenges in mind-reading could rather rely more specifically on complementation structures. Howe…
View article: Language acquisition in a post-pandemic context: the impact of measures against COVID-19 on early language development
Language acquisition in a post-pandemic context: the impact of measures against COVID-19 on early language development Open
Language acquisition is influenced by the quality and quantity of input that language learners receive. In particular, early language development has been said to rely on the acoustic speech stream, as well as on language-related visual in…
View article: Pretending emotions in the early years: The role of language and symbolic play
Pretending emotions in the early years: The role of language and symbolic play Open
Although 3‐year‐old children sometimes simulate emotions to adapt to social norms, we do not know if even younger children can pretend emotions in playful contexts. The present study investigated (1) what emotions infants of 1–2 years old …
View article: Sociodemographic and Pre-Linguistic Factors in Early Vocabulary Acquisition
Sociodemographic and Pre-Linguistic Factors in Early Vocabulary Acquisition Open
Here, we studied the beginnings of language development, jointly assessing two groups of precursors, sociodemographic and pre-linguistic, that have previously been studied separately. Thus, the general objective of this study was to explor…
View article: Identifying Emotional Expressions: Children’s Reasoning About Pretend Emotions of Sadness and Anger
Identifying Emotional Expressions: Children’s Reasoning About Pretend Emotions of Sadness and Anger Open
This study aims to further understand children’s capacity to identify and reason about pretend emotions by analyzing which sources of information they take into account when interpreting emotions simulated in pretend play contexts. A total…
View article: Correction to: Are You Really Happy? Children’s Understanding of Real vs. Pretend Emotions
Correction to: Are You Really Happy? Children’s Understanding of Real vs. Pretend Emotions Open
The article Are You Really Happy? Children’s Understanding of Real vs. Pretend Emotions, written by Francesc Sidera, Anna Amadó and Elisabet Serrat, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently Spri…
View article: Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages
Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages Open
This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical langua…
View article: Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss
Emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss Open
Previous studies have found a deficit in emotion recognition skills in children with hearing loss linked to their linguistic development. Our aim is to explore how different linguistic-communicative skills influence the capacity to recogni…
View article: Improving Social Understanding of Preschool Children: Evaluation of a Training Program
Improving Social Understanding of Preschool Children: Evaluation of a Training Program Open
Introducción. En este trabajo examinamos los efectos de un programa educativo dirigido a niños y niñas en edad preescolar que tiene el objetivo de mejorar la comprensión social, es decir, la capacidad para entender la conducta de las perso…
View article: When Meaning Is Not Enough: Distributional and Semantic Cues to Word Categorization in Child Directed Speech
When Meaning Is Not Enough: Distributional and Semantic Cues to Word Categorization in Child Directed Speech Open
One of the most important tasks in first language development is assigning words to their grammatical category. The Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis postulates that, in order to accomplish this task, children are guided by a neat c…
View article: Influences on Facial Emotion Recognition in Deaf Children
Influences on Facial Emotion Recognition in Deaf Children Open
This exploratory research is aimed at studying facial emotion recognition abilities in deaf children and how they relate to linguistic skills and the characteristics of deafness. A total of 166 participants (75 deaf) aged 3-8 years were ad…
View article: The Role of Executive Functions in Social Cognition among Children with Down Syndrome: Relationship Patterns
The Role of Executive Functions in Social Cognition among Children with Down Syndrome: Relationship Patterns Open
Many studies show a link between social cognition, a set of cognitive and emotional abilities applied to social situations, and executive functions in typical developing children. Children with Down syndrome (DS) show deficits both in soci…