1st Edition
Self-Regulation and Early School Success
1. Introduction Megan M. McClelland and Shauna L. Tominey
2. The Role of Effortful Control in Mediating the Association Between Maternal Sensitivity and Children’s Social and Relational Competence and Problems in First Grade Tamar M. Mintz, Bridget K. Hamre, and Bridget E. Hatfield
3. Cognitive Flexibility, Approaches to Learning, and Academic School Readiness in Head Start Preschool Children Virginia E. Vitiello, Daryl B. Greenfield, Pelin Munis, and J’Lene George
4. Children’s Effortful Control and Academic Achievement: Mediation Through Social Functioning Carlos Valiente, Nancy Eisenberg, Rg Haugen, Tracy L. Spinrad, Claire Hofer, Jeffrey Liew, and Anne Kupfer
5. Relations of Children’s Effortful Control and Teacher–Child Relationship Quality to School Attitudes in a Low-Income Sample Kassondra M. Silva, Tracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, Michael J. Sulik, Carlos Valiente, Snjezana Huerta, Alison Edwards, Natalie D. Eggum, Anne S. Kupfer, Christopher J. Lonigan, Beth M. Phillips, Shauna B. Wilson, Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti, Susan H. Landry, Paul R. Swank, Michael A. Assel, Heather B. Taylor, and School Readiness Consortium
6. The Influence of Demographic Risk Factors on Children’s Behavioral Regulation in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Shannon B. Wanless, Megan M. McClelland, Shauna L. Tominey, and Alan C. Acock
7. Red Light, Purple Light: Findings From a Randomized Trial Using Circle Time Games to Improve Behavioral Self-Regulation in Preschool Shauna L. Tominey and Megan M. McClelland
8. Parent–Teacher Agreement and Reliability on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA) in English and Spanish for Ethnically Diverse Children Living in Poverty Jennifer Crane, Melissa S. Mincic, and Adam Winsler
Biography
Megan McClelland is an Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University, USA, where she serves as Director of the Healthy Development in Early Childhood Research Core at the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. Her research focuses on school readiness including links between self-regulation and academic achievement from early childhood to adulthood, recent advances in measuring self-regulation, and intervention efforts to improve these skills in young children.
Shauna Tominey is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, USA, in the Department of Psychology and at the Yale Child Study Center in the School of Medicine. Her current research is focused on the development of an intervention aimed at promoting preschoolers’ social-emotional skills as well as the development of programs for children and families targeting the development of social competence and social support as a means of fostering resilience.
