Predicting Feelings of Cognitive Competence in Head Start Preschoolers

Autor/inn/en	DiBiase, Rosemarie; Miller, Patrice M.
Titel	Predicting Feelings of Cognitive Competence in Head Start Preschoolers
Quelle	In: Journal of Genetic Psychology, 173 (2012) 1, S.23-40 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1325
DOI	10.1080/00221325.2011.560976
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Disadvantaged Youth; Cognitive Ability; Prediction; Self Concept; Language Aptitude; Teacher Attitudes; Mothers; Educational Attainment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Denkfähigkeit; Vorhersage; Selbstkonzept; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Lehrerverhalten; Mother; Mutter; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut
Abstract	Little is known about what predicts the budding sense of self-competence in preschoolers. This is particularly true of cognitive competence, which may have implications for later schooling. Based on previous research with older children, it was expected that feelings of self-competence would be influenced by attitudes of significant others as well as intrapersonal dispositions. Forty-five Head Start preschoolers (M age = 4.36 years) served as participants. As expected, high effortful control and language competence, as well as teachers' ratings of competence, predicted positive feelings about cognitive competence in children. Further analysis revealed that the teachers' ratings were predicted by maternal education and language competence. The findings suggest that the development of cognitive self-concept in preschoolers is predicted by contextual and constitutional factors. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10