Control In Young Children Research Articles

Social Agents and the Development of Locus of Control in Young Children

Abstract The purpose was to investigate the development of preschoolers' locus of control (LOC) in relation to social agents, parental LOC, achievement motivation, and LOC dimensions. Children (N = 65) responded to the Stephens-Delys Reinforcement Contingency Interview; teachers rated children on achievement-related behavior while parents completed the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale. Children's perceptions of control over all social agents except themselves were highly correlated. Children perceived the most control over social interactions involving teachers, mothers and fathers, and significantly less control over peers and themselves. No correlations were found between children's and parent's LOC nor between children's LOC and teachers' ratings of achievement. Results suggest that LOC may not be acquired through modeling but rather through contingent reinforcement. Since achievement ratings primarily reflected the child's interactions with object-related tasks and since LOC measures i...

Nonverbal fixation control in young children induces a left-field advantage in digit recall

Eighty-six right-handed children, aged 5–6 yr; 43 boys and 43 girls, were tested for their verbal report of digits presented tachistoscopically under simultaneous, bilateral viewing conditions. Verbal foveal fixation stimuli, used to control for eye movements, resulted in an expected right, visual half-field (VHF) superiority. Manual identification of a nonverbal central-field fixation target prior to digit recall produced a left-VHF advantage of equal magnitude. This is the first demonstration of a reversal of visual laterality effects through fixation control procedures. The results indicate that current methods of laterality testing are unable to distinguish between two competing explanations. Either one hemisphere is more specialized and efficient than the other or, alternatively, one hemisphere is activated more than the other by the information processing demands of the task.

Eating, sleeping, and elimination practices of a group of two-and-one-half-year old children. V. Elimination practices: bladder.

The DEVELOPMENT of bowel control in young children and its relation to personality development has been more carefully studied by research workers and clinicians than has that of bladder control. Continuous studies of the same children are needed in order to understand the process by which children establish urinary control and its relation to personality structure. Interest has been focused on enuresis as a problem in older children, 1 and studies have been done in retrospect, but little documentation has been given on children in the process of becoming enuretic. Is it possible by studying children at the ages at which urinary control is being established to get clues for the prediction of later problem syndromes of which enuresis is a part? Like all other aspects of growth, the development of urinary control is complex, and this study will contribute only a small part of the information that is needed

Development of Motor Control in Young Children; Coordinated Movements of the Fingers

Development of Motor Control in Young Children; Coordinated Movements of the Fingers

The Peg Board as a Means of Analyzing form Perception and Motor Control in Young Children

The Peg Board as a Means of Analyzing form Perception and Motor Control in Young Children