Young children proactively remedy unnoticed accidents

Young children proactively remedy unnoticed accidents.

Human adults will sometimes help without being asked to help, including in situations in which the helpee is oblivious to the problem and thus provides no communicative or behavioral cues that intervention is necessary. Some theoretical models argue that these acts of 'proactive helping' are an important and possibly human-specific form of prosociality. Two experiments examined whether young ch...

Repetition of accidents in young children.

Data from the Oxford Record Linkage Study have been used to describe rates of accident repetition for children aged under 5 years. As reflected by hospital admissions, accident rates for children who have already had one accident were approximately twice those of children of the same age and sex who had previously been accident free.

Farm accidents in children.

OBJECTIVE To examine the problem of accidental injury to children on farms. DESIGN Prospective county based study of children presenting to accident and emergency departments over 12 months with injuries sustained in a farm setting and nationwide review of fatal childhood farm accidents over the four years April 1986 to March 1990. SETTING Accident and emergency departments in Aberystwyth, ...

Children in traffic accidents.

Reactively and proactively aggressive children: antecedent and subsequent characteristics.

BACKGROUND Reactive and proactive subtypes of aggressive 10-11-12-year-old children were compared with non-aggressive children to examine whether the two forms of aggression were differentially related to antecedent and subsequent measures. METHOD A large community sample of boys and girls was used. Reactive and proactive aggression was measured through teacher ratings when the children were ...