Search for dissertations about: "Middle childhood"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 62 swedish dissertations containing the words Middle childhood.
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1. Temperamental Influences on Risk-taking during Middle Childhood
Abstract : This thesis concerns temperamental qualities and their influence on risk-taking behavior during middle childhood (7–11 years of age). Contemporary research generally agrees upon the notion that temperament constitutes two motivational systems, sensitive to punishment and reward respectively, together with a third system that is responsible for regulating the motivational systems. READ MORE
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2. The creative world of middle childhood : Creativity, imagination, and self-image from qualitative and quantitative perspectives
Abstract : Four studies on creativity, imagination and self-image in 10-year-old children constitute the basis of this dissertation. A total of 179 participants were involved. READ MORE
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3. Social inhibition and socioemotional functioning in middle childhood
Abstract : Social inhibition, or in lay language "shyness", means a tendency to react with fearful and hesitant behaviors innovel social encounters. Lowinhibition, on the other hand is associated with a capacity to easily approachnovel social situations. However, low-inhibition might co-occur with difficulties in inhabiting undesired socialbehaviors. READ MORE
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4. Children’s Peer Status and Their Adjustment in Adolescence and Adulthood : Developmental issues in sociometric research
Abstract : The present research intended to examine the relationship between childhood stable peer status and adjustment in midadolescence for both genders, and adjustment in early and middle adulthood for women. One-year stably peer rejected, popular, and average boys and girls were identified by an age 10 and age 11 sociometric classification procedure using positive nominations and rank-ordering. READ MORE
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5. Fatherhood Images and Ideals : Transforming, Circulating, and Responding to the Swedish Dads Photo Exhibition
Abstract : Between 2016 and 2019, the Swedish state – via the Swedish Institute and Swedish embassies – circulated the ‘Swedish Dads’ photo exhibition to 54 countries. The exhibition was based on a photobook by the same name and featured photographs of Swedish fathers on parental leave with their children. READ MORE