Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts, 2016, 6(2) 47 Emotion regulation is the motivation and ability to control one’s subjective experience of emotion and to strategically manage one’s expression of emotion in communicative contexts (Saarni, 1999). Emotion regulation fosters one’s emotional well-being, positive social relationships (Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Eggum, 2010), and academic competence ...

This study aimed to provide useful materials for the realization of healthy and happy welfare society through the re-socialization of the retired elderly by identifying the effect of the push factors in the leisure sports participation of the retired elderly on re-socialization and recovery resilience. To achieve the study purpose, 304 subjects over the age of 55 residing in Seoul and Gyeonggin...

Background: Professional socialization of nurses defines a process in which novice practitioners are trained to develop the attitude and skills to become professional practitioners. This study was conducted to assess the level of professional socialization among clinical nurses. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 600 nurses from Tehran and Shahrekord teaching hosp...

Beat perception in music has been proposed to be a human universal that may have its origins in adaptive processes involving temporal entrainment such as social communication and interaction. We examined beat perception skills in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), a genetic, neurodevelopmental disorder. Musical interest and hypersociability are two prominent aspects of the WS phenotype al...

Temperament is the tendency to express particular emotions with a certain intensity that is unique to each individual child. Although temperament seems to be biologically based, learning to regulate emotional expressions depends on caregiver input and socialization. Part of this process involves forming a trusting relationship with the infant so that he or she learns to rely on the parents to h...

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS) data were examined in a large sample of young children with ASD (n = 290) of varying cognitive levels. IQ was higher than VABS composite score among high functioning children only; the opposite pattern was found in lower IQ subgroups. Profile analysis of VABS domains across cognitive levels demonstrated different profiles in different subgroups. A charac...

Autism is a mental disorder characterized by deficits in socialization, communication, and imagination. Along with the deficits, autistic children may have savant skills (“islets of ability”) of unknown origin. The present article proposes a neurobiological model for the autism. A neural network capable of defining neural maps simulates the process of neurodevelopment. The computer simulations ...

Two theoretical approaches--the social learning approach and tile family communication pattern approach--were used and integrated in examining the acquisition of consumer skills and materialism in both the American youths and the Chinese youths. Two cross sectional surveys were conducted in which 443 American adolescents in a midwest state of the United States and 712 Chinese adolescents from t...

Hospitals have a responsibility to provide preceptors with the knowledge and skills required to provide bedside instruction to and evaluation of orientees. Formal preceptor preparation programs that provide practical information for immediate application are necessary for successful transition of orientees into patient care environments. Essential content includes the importance of socializatio...