Yair Ziv
Biographic Data
| ID | 768053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yair Ziv |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yair |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziv |
| SIGNATURE | ZIV Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2470-0904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fathers' rejection sensitivity
Parent–child emotional availability, children's early emotional reflectivity skills, and social behavior in kindergarten
Fostering Academic Performance in 5-Year-Olds
Self-direction values, which reflect the need for autonomy, creativity, curiosity, and mastery, potentially hold substantial importance in educational settings. However, limited research exists on how these values contribute to academic performance, particularly in early childhood. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the relationships between kindergarten children’s self-direction values and their academic performance while considering …
I want to succeed for her, so I can assure a better future for her”
4.89) were interviewed about their parenting and their perceptions of Bedouin society. Interviews were analyzed using a phenomenological approach. Parents' accounts indicated a tension between preserving traditions, social norms, and religious rules that offer cohesion, comfort, and security and embracing individualistic values and cultural changes to promote social mobility for future generations. Bedouin mothers were conflicted between seeking …
Preschool education in war and conflict zones
Kindergarten children’s academic engagement
Education researchers and practitioners have been exploring for years the key factors impacting children’s academic engagement. Still, relatively little is known about the role of children’s social cognition in their academic engagement. Accordingly, the current study focuses on the potential indirect associations between young children’s social information processing patterns (SIP) and their academic engagement through their social behaviors in …
Personal values and social behavior in early childhood
Values, defined by Schwartz (1994) as basic motivational cognitive structures, guide life goals, transcend contexts, and affect individuals’ courses of action differently depending on their preferred values. With young children, an important question that emerges is what factors underlie the linkages between their preferred motivations (i.e., preferred values) and their behavior tendencies in key social contexts. This study proposed one potential…
Executive functions and social cognition from early childhood to pre-adolescence
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing
Mothers’ Perceptions of the Jewish–Arab Conflict and Social Information Processing Patterns
Are You Ready for a Story? Kindergarten Children’s Emotional Competencies during a Story-Reading Situation Is Associated with Their Readiness for School
The current study aimed to explore the associations between children’s emotional reactions to stories and their school readiness skills. One hundred and fifty kindergarten children (Mage = 66.98 months; 66 boys) were interviewed to examine their emotional reactions to a story, and the children’s kindergarten teachers reported on the children’s school readiness skills: verbal abilities, approaches toward learning, and social skills. Using biblioth…
The Child–Mother–Father–Teacher Relationship Network in Kindergarten and Its Association with Children’s Social and Academic Development
This study examines how a set of the child's proximal relationships (mother-child, father-child, and teacher-child) and parent-teacher relationships relate to the child's prosocial and learning behaviors in kindergarten. The sample included 95 mother-father-child triads (child mean age 5.9 years) and 42 kindergarten teachers. All adults reported on their relationship with the child and on their perceptions of parent-teacher relationships. Teacher…
Associations of mothers' rejection sensitivity with children's cognitions about peer rejection and social self-perceptions
This study examined the associations between mothers' predisposition to show rejection sensitivity and children's cognitions regarding peer rejection and their social self-perceptions. It also explored whether these associations were mediated by mothers' behaviors in situations that might suggest their children were rejected by peers. Participants were 122 Jewish Israeli mothers and their kindergarten children (50.82% female; MChild age in months…
Preschool Children’s Social Information Processing Mediates the Link between the Quality of the Parent-Child Relationship and the Child’s Learning Difficulties
(1) Background: This study aims to explore children's social information processing (SIP) as an explanatory mechanism in the link between parent-child relationship and children's learning difficulties in kindergarten; (2) Methods: The sample included 115 kindergarteners (62 girls; 53 boys; Mage = 68.5 months, SD = 6.04), their parents and the school teacher. Parents reported on relationship quality with the child and teachers reported on children…
Parenting practices, aggressive response evaluation and decision, and social difficulties in kindergarten children
The association between fathers' parenting characteristics and their preschool children's social information processing (SIP) patterns is an understudied research topic. Hence, the current study aims to bridge this gap by examining whether there are differences between mothers' and fathers' parenting characteristics and their children's SIP patterns as well as their social functioning in school, with a specific focus on children's aggressive resp…
Social Information Processing Model
Crick and Dodge's social information processing model is a theoretically grounded model of social cognition that focuses specifically on the online mental processes that occur between the time an individual receives a social input and the time he or she provides a response. Since the turn of the century, the model had solidified itself as a leading social information processing model and its validity has been established in thousands of studies e…
Association between the Mother’s Social Cognition and the Child’s Social Functioning in Kindergarten
Children's ability to adjust to the social rules and expectations in the educational environment is of major concern to researchers and practitioners alike. Accordingly, the main purpose of the present study was to examine predictors of children's social functioning in kindergarten with a specific focus on (a) maternal factors and (b) children's social cognition. Using a multi-method (self-reports and direct assessments), multi-informant (child, …
Children and Caregivers’ Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces)
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACE) has been found to have a profound negative impact on multiple child outcomes, including academic achievement, social cognition patterns, and behavioral adjustment. However, these links have yet to be examined in preschool children that are already experiencing behavior or social-emotional problems. Thus, the present study examined the links between the caregiver's and the child's exposure to ACE and…
Modern pedagogy, local concerns
This paper focuses on the “Junkyard” (chatzar grutaot) – a unique educational environment and practice developed in kindergartens on the Israeli kibbutz in the 1940s and 1950s, and still in wide use today in kibbutz kindergartens. The Junkyard, consisting of artefacts of the adult world that are no longer in use, is an ever-changing set-up in which children’s free play is encouraged, with minimal rules for use of time, space, objects, and social …
Theory and measure in the psychological field
In this article, we pose a question about the link between theory and measure within the field of psychology and use an influential psychological theory—attachment theory—as a case study to test our question. Using a multidisciplinary approach, we incorporate broad historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives to support our thesis that in today’s psychological field there is pressure to achieve instantaneous empirical answers to broad…
Bullying and victimization in early adolescence
There is a gap in the literature on the social information processing (SIP) patterns of adolescents exposed to victimization in school. Therefore, we examine the SIP patterns of young adolescents characterized by their teachers and by their own reports as victims, bullies, bullies/victims, and neither bullies nor victims. The 105 adolescents participating in this study were asked to respond to hypothetical social scenarios in which a protagonist …
Exposure to Violence, Social Information Processing, and Problem Behavior in Preschool Children
Understanding the mechanisms by which early risk factors for social maladjustment contribute to disruptive behaviors in social settings is vital to developmental research and practice. A major risk factor for social maladjustment is early exposure to violence, which was examined in this short‐term longitudinal study in relation to social information processing (SIP) patterns and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in a sample of 256 prescho…
Understanding Head Start children's problem behaviors in the context of arrest or incarceration of household members
Emotional availability and attachment representations in kibbutz infants and their mothers
Three components of the attachment transmission model were examined in 48 kibbutz dyads from 2 kibbutz sleeping arrangements: communal and home-based. Concurrent assessments used the Strange Situation procedure (M. D. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) for infants' attachment relations, the Adult Attachment Interview (C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) for mothers' attachment representations, and the Emotional Availability S…
Emotional availability and attachment representations in kibbutz infants and their mothers
Three components of the attachment transmission model were examined in 48 kibbutz dyads from 2 kibbutz sleeping arrangements: communal and home-based. Concurrent assessments used the Strange Situation procedure (M. D. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) for infants' attachment relations, the Adult Attachment Interview (C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) for mothers' attachment representations, and the Emotional Availability S…
Bullying and victimization in early adolescence
There is a gap in the literature on the social information processing (SIP) patterns of adolescents exposed to victimization in school. Therefore, we examine the SIP patterns of young adolescents characterized by their teachers and by their own reports as victims, bullies, bullies/victims, and neither bullies nor victims. The 105 adolescents participating in this study were asked to respond to hypothetical social scenarios in which a protagonist …
Understanding Head Start children's problem behaviors in the context of arrest or incarceration of household members
Exposure to Violence, Social Information Processing, and Problem Behavior in Preschool Children
Understanding the mechanisms by which early risk factors for social maladjustment contribute to disruptive behaviors in social settings is vital to developmental research and practice. A major risk factor for social maladjustment is early exposure to violence, which was examined in this short‐term longitudinal study in relation to social information processing (SIP) patterns and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in a sample of 256 prescho…
Parenting practices, aggressive response evaluation and decision, and social difficulties in kindergarten children
The association between fathers' parenting characteristics and their preschool children's social information processing (SIP) patterns is an understudied research topic. Hence, the current study aims to bridge this gap by examining whether there are differences between mothers' and fathers' parenting characteristics and their children's SIP patterns as well as their social functioning in school, with a specific focus on children's aggressive resp…
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing
Associations of mothers' rejection sensitivity with children's cognitions about peer rejection and social self-perceptions
This study examined the associations between mothers' predisposition to show rejection sensitivity and children's cognitions regarding peer rejection and their social self-perceptions. It also explored whether these associations were mediated by mothers' behaviors in situations that might suggest their children were rejected by peers. Participants were 122 Jewish Israeli mothers and their kindergarten children (50.82% female; MChild age in months…
Modern pedagogy, local concerns
This paper focuses on the “Junkyard” (chatzar grutaot) – a unique educational environment and practice developed in kindergartens on the Israeli kibbutz in the 1940s and 1950s, and still in wide use today in kibbutz kindergartens. The Junkyard, consisting of artefacts of the adult world that are no longer in use, is an ever-changing set-up in which children’s free play is encouraged, with minimal rules for use of time, space, objects, and social …
Emotional availability and attachment representations in kibbutz infants and their mothers
Three components of the attachment transmission model were examined in 48 kibbutz dyads from 2 kibbutz sleeping arrangements: communal and home-based. Concurrent assessments used the Strange Situation procedure (M. D. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) for infants' attachment relations, the Adult Attachment Interview (C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) for mothers' attachment representations, and the Emotional Availability S…
Understanding Head Start children's problem behaviors in the context of arrest or incarceration of household members
Exposure to Violence, Social Information Processing, and Problem Behavior in Preschool Children
Understanding the mechanisms by which early risk factors for social maladjustment contribute to disruptive behaviors in social settings is vital to developmental research and practice. A major risk factor for social maladjustment is early exposure to violence, which was examined in this short‐term longitudinal study in relation to social information processing (SIP) patterns and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in a sample of 256 prescho…
Bullying and victimization in early adolescence
There is a gap in the literature on the social information processing (SIP) patterns of adolescents exposed to victimization in school. Therefore, we examine the SIP patterns of young adolescents characterized by their teachers and by their own reports as victims, bullies, bullies/victims, and neither bullies nor victims. The 105 adolescents participating in this study were asked to respond to hypothetical social scenarios in which a protagonist …
Theory and measure in the psychological field
In this article, we pose a question about the link between theory and measure within the field of psychology and use an influential psychological theory—attachment theory—as a case study to test our question. Using a multidisciplinary approach, we incorporate broad historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives to support our thesis that in today’s psychological field there is pressure to achieve instantaneous empirical answers to broad…
Modern pedagogy, local concerns
This paper focuses on the “Junkyard” (chatzar grutaot) – a unique educational environment and practice developed in kindergartens on the Israeli kibbutz in the 1940s and 1950s, and still in wide use today in kibbutz kindergartens. The Junkyard, consisting of artefacts of the adult world that are no longer in use, is an ever-changing set-up in which children’s free play is encouraged, with minimal rules for use of time, space, objects, and social …
Children and Caregivers’ Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces)
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACE) has been found to have a profound negative impact on multiple child outcomes, including academic achievement, social cognition patterns, and behavioral adjustment. However, these links have yet to be examined in preschool children that are already experiencing behavior or social-emotional problems. Thus, the present study examined the links between the caregiver's and the child's exposure to ACE and…
Social Information Processing Model
Crick and Dodge's social information processing model is a theoretically grounded model of social cognition that focuses specifically on the online mental processes that occur between the time an individual receives a social input and the time he or she provides a response. Since the turn of the century, the model had solidified itself as a leading social information processing model and its validity has been established in thousands of studies e…
Association between the Mother’s Social Cognition and the Child’s Social Functioning in Kindergarten
Children's ability to adjust to the social rules and expectations in the educational environment is of major concern to researchers and practitioners alike. Accordingly, the main purpose of the present study was to examine predictors of children's social functioning in kindergarten with a specific focus on (a) maternal factors and (b) children's social cognition. Using a multi-method (self-reports and direct assessments), multi-informant (child, …
Preschool Children’s Social Information Processing Mediates the Link between the Quality of the Parent-Child Relationship and the Child’s Learning Difficulties
(1) Background: This study aims to explore children's social information processing (SIP) as an explanatory mechanism in the link between parent-child relationship and children's learning difficulties in kindergarten; (2) Methods: The sample included 115 kindergarteners (62 girls; 53 boys; Mage = 68.5 months, SD = 6.04), their parents and the school teacher. Parents reported on relationship quality with the child and teachers reported on children…
Parenting practices, aggressive response evaluation and decision, and social difficulties in kindergarten children
The association between fathers' parenting characteristics and their preschool children's social information processing (SIP) patterns is an understudied research topic. Hence, the current study aims to bridge this gap by examining whether there are differences between mothers' and fathers' parenting characteristics and their children's SIP patterns as well as their social functioning in school, with a specific focus on children's aggressive resp…
Are You Ready for a Story? Kindergarten Children’s Emotional Competencies during a Story-Reading Situation Is Associated with Their Readiness for School
The current study aimed to explore the associations between children’s emotional reactions to stories and their school readiness skills. One hundred and fifty kindergarten children (Mage = 66.98 months; 66 boys) were interviewed to examine their emotional reactions to a story, and the children’s kindergarten teachers reported on the children’s school readiness skills: verbal abilities, approaches toward learning, and social skills. Using biblioth…
The Child–Mother–Father–Teacher Relationship Network in Kindergarten and Its Association with Children’s Social and Academic Development
This study examines how a set of the child's proximal relationships (mother-child, father-child, and teacher-child) and parent-teacher relationships relate to the child's prosocial and learning behaviors in kindergarten. The sample included 95 mother-father-child triads (child mean age 5.9 years) and 42 kindergarten teachers. All adults reported on their relationship with the child and on their perceptions of parent-teacher relationships. Teacher…
Associations of mothers' rejection sensitivity with children's cognitions about peer rejection and social self-perceptions
This study examined the associations between mothers' predisposition to show rejection sensitivity and children's cognitions regarding peer rejection and their social self-perceptions. It also explored whether these associations were mediated by mothers' behaviors in situations that might suggest their children were rejected by peers. Participants were 122 Jewish Israeli mothers and their kindergarten children (50.82% female; MChild age in months…
Kindergarten children’s academic engagement
Education researchers and practitioners have been exploring for years the key factors impacting children’s academic engagement. Still, relatively little is known about the role of children’s social cognition in their academic engagement. Accordingly, the current study focuses on the potential indirect associations between young children’s social information processing patterns (SIP) and their academic engagement through their social behaviors in …
Personal values and social behavior in early childhood
Values, defined by Schwartz (1994) as basic motivational cognitive structures, guide life goals, transcend contexts, and affect individuals’ courses of action differently depending on their preferred values. With young children, an important question that emerges is what factors underlie the linkages between their preferred motivations (i.e., preferred values) and their behavior tendencies in key social contexts. This study proposed one potential…
Executive functions and social cognition from early childhood to pre-adolescence
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing
Mothers’ Perceptions of the Jewish–Arab Conflict and Social Information Processing Patterns
Fathers' rejection sensitivity
Parent–child emotional availability, children's early emotional reflectivity skills, and social behavior in kindergarten
Fostering Academic Performance in 5-Year-Olds
Self-direction values, which reflect the need for autonomy, creativity, curiosity, and mastery, potentially hold substantial importance in educational settings. However, limited research exists on how these values contribute to academic performance, particularly in early childhood. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the relationships between kindergarten children’s self-direction values and their academic performance while considering …
I want to succeed for her, so I can assure a better future for her”
4.89) were interviewed about their parenting and their perceptions of Bedouin society. Interviews were analyzed using a phenomenological approach. Parents' accounts indicated a tension between preserving traditions, social norms, and religious rules that offer cohesion, comfort, and security and embracing individualistic values and cultural changes to promote social mobility for future generations. Bedouin mothers were conflicted between seeking …
Preschool education in war and conflict zones
Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (15 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Cognition (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social information processing (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Perception (6 works)