Children's Capacity (children + capacity)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Parental conditional regard as a predictor of deficiencies in young children's capacities to respond to sad feelings

INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2010
Guy Roth
Abstract This study explored the relationship between parents' use of conditional regard (PCR, Assor, Roth, & Deci, 2004; Roth, 2008) to promote suppression of sad feelings and the following emotional skills in young children: (1) recognition of sadness in facial expressions, (2) awareness of sad feelings in oneself, and (3) empathic response to others' sad feelings. The study distinguished between two PCR components: conditional negative regard (similar to love withdrawal) and conditional positive regard. Emotion-focused interviews were conducted with 102 children aged 5,6 years, and their parents completed questionnaires assessing parents' use of conditional regard. As expected, both PCR components correlated negatively with the emotional skills. Regression analyses showed that the seemingly benign practice of conditional positive regard had unique negative associations with the three emotional skills also when effects of negative PCR were controlled. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Effectiveness of participation as a defendant: the attorney,juvenile client relationship,

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, Issue 2 2003
Melinda G. Schmidt M.A.
Recent changes in the processing of juveniles in the justice system place greater significance on children's capacities to participate in legal contexts. Effective participation as a defendant encompasses abilities beyond those legally required for adjudicative competence, which may nevertheless influence the quality and nature of a defendant's participation in the trial process. Based in developmental judgment theory, the current study compares 203 juveniles and 110 adults detained pre-trial using a hypothetical attorney,client vignette to examine how psychosocial factors are reflected in decision-making processes and link to decision outcomes and effective participation within the attorney,client relationship. Age-related differences in legally relevant decision-making processes and outcomes are identified, and implications for policy are made. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Attitudes to Making Art in the Primary School

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2005
Robert Watts
Recent research suggests that the majority of primary school teachers in the UK believe that the purpose of teaching art and design is to develop skills associated with creativity, communication and expression. This article is based on research into the attitudes held by primary school pupils towards making art. The reflective nature of many of the responses to the survey provides persuasive evidence of young children's capacity for absorbing relatively complex ideas, which in turn has implications for teacher expectations of pupil learning in art and design. [source]


Why do we need children's participation?

JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2001
The importance of children's participation in changing the city
Abstract After examining the characteristics of the degradation of the urban environment and the costs that this entails for the child's development, in particular as far as play experience and autonomous mobility are concerned, the article goes on to discuss the role of the children's contribution to the promotion of real and consistent change in the city. The reasons underlying the recent increase in the number of experiments of children's participation are examined together with the main characteristics of this strategy as a privileged access to knowledge concerning the needs of our younger citizens and as an innovative resource in solving the city's problems. It is shown how children's participation experiences can lead to the acquisition of a fresh sensitivity and competence by city administrators and technicians. An analysis is made of several proposals made by children in the course of participation experiments followed by the authors in cities in Italy and abroad during 10 year's of activities in the ,The Children's City' project. These proposals confirm the children's capacity to identify the city's problems as they emerge and to propose solutions that are often innovative or useful for all members of the population. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Children's memory for the duration of a paediatric consultation

APPLIED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2010
William J. Friedman
To learn about children's ability to estimate the duration of an event many days after it occurred, 6,12-year-old children were asked to judge the amount of time (range 5,45,minutes) they spent in the treatment room as part of a paediatric visit. Judgements were made 1,week or 1,month after the visit occurred. Children showed an average error of about 13,minutes. Retention interval did not significantly affect estimates. Other judgements of the length of the interview itself (mean length 8,minutes) provided what may be the first data on children's ability to make immediate retrospective duration estimates. The results also include information about children's capacity to judge how long ago they visited the clinic. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]