Examining the Dimensionality of Effortful Control in Preschool Children and Its Relation to Academic and Socioemotional Indicators

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 905-915

  Allan, Nicholas P ^a   Lonigan, Christopher J ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effortful control; Emergent literacy; Preschool

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79960443462     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023748     Document Type: Article

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