Social Sensitivity among Young Children

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ID2933101
AuthorsG G Garrard (University of York), Chris Kyriacou (0000-0002-5077-4579, University of York)
Year1985
Volume2
Issue2
Pages123-135
Publication date1985-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0265407585022001
OpenAlexW2078305635
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Forty-six eight-year-old children were given five tests of social sensitivity which were used to derive, for each child, a composite score of social sensitivity. The mother of each child was interviewed, and her responses to 20 questions concerning her child-rearing practices and relationship with her child yielded a measure of the mother's language code (restricted versus elaborated) and mode of control (personal versus positional). The results indicated that the child's degree of social sensitivity was positively and significantly associated with both the mother's use of elaborated language code (r = 0.36, P< 0.05) and a personal mode of control (r = 0.25, P< 0.05). However, partial correlations indicated that the primary association was between social sensitivity and language code (partial r = 0.27, P< 0.05) and that mode of control may be associated by confounding or through some other mechanism of influence (partial r = 0.01, n.s

Association (psychology · Confounding · Developmental psychology · Sensitivity (control systems · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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