CSRP's Impact on Low-Income Preschoolers' Preacademic Skills: Self-Regulation as a Mediating Mechanism

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 362-378

  Raver, C Cybele ^a   Jones, Stephanie M ^b   Li Grining, Christine ^c   Zhai, Fuhua ^d   Bub, Kristen ^e   Pressler, Emily ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The Penn State University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSONALITY TEST; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATHEMATICS; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; READING; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79551559126     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01561.x     Document Type: Article

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