News tagged with child behavior

Spanking sparks aggression, does little to reduce behavior problems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Discipline -- whether it's spanking, yelling or giving time-outs -- may sometimes do little to reduce children's behavior problems, a new study indicates.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (21) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Teaching self-control skills to children reduces classroom problems

Children taught skills to monitor and control their anger and other emotions improved their classroom behavior and had significantly fewer school disciplinary referrals and suspensions, according to a study by University ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Humans not the only ones that pass down abusive behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in The Auk, researchers claim they have found evidence that humans are not the only species where child abuse is a socially transmitted behavior.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Exploration in toddlers activated by fathers

A new study has found that fathers give toddlers more leeway and that allows them to actively explore their environments, according to a new study on parent-child attachment published in Early Child Development and Care.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study finds effects of early child care at age 15

Teens who were in high-quality child care settings as young children scored slightly higher on measures of academic and cognitive achievement and were slightly less likely to report acting-out behaviors than peers who were ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Youths see all parental control negatively when there's a lot of it

A new study has found that young people feel differently about two types of parental control, generally viewing a type of control that's thought to be better for their development more positively. However, when parents are ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Copycat behavior in children is universal and may help promote human culture

Children learn a great deal by imitating adults. A new study of Australian preschoolers and Kalahari Bushman children finds that a particular kind of imitation - overimitation, in which a child copies everything an adult ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Autism may be linked to being firstborn, breech births or moms 35 or older

Children who are firstborn or breech or whose mothers are 35 or older when giving birth are at significantly greater risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

The developing child: Rating aggressive and delinquent behavior in pre-adolescence

In a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a response to a child's negative behavior, can pr ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Does mom know when enough is enough?

As the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States continues, researchers are examining whether early parent and child behaviors contribute to the problem. A study from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Personality traits associated with stress and worry can be hazardous to your health

(PhysOrg.com) -- Personality traits associated with chronic worrying can lead to earlier death, at least in part because these people are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family child care providers' behavior found to affect children's stress

A new study on preschoolers attending full-day child care in licensed day care homes has found increases in cortisol, a stress hormone, when the children are in child care that exceeds their levels at home. The increases ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mental, emotional and behavioral disorders can be prevented in young people

Around one in five young people in the U.S. have a current mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. About half of all adults with mental disorders recalled that their disorders began by their mid-teens and three-quarters ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0