The emerging situation in the urban Turkish context involves the acquisition of an esteemed L2 in a context where L1 is the majority language which is also of high value, by children from advantaged social backgrounds. ...

The aim of the present study is threefold: first, to assess the psychometric structure of Social Skills Rating System-Student form (Gresham & Elliot, 1990) in a sample of Turkish students from third through eighth grades; ...

The present study investigated the association between Turkish mothers’ regulation strategies and their toddlers’ desire-driven behaviors as well as affect during a delay task. Sixty-two mothers and their toddlers (31 boys, ...

Preschool teachers play a crucial role in the social and emotional development of young children. They educate a large number of students throughout their career; thus, training the teachers can be considered as a cost- ...

A large body of research reveals that warm, responsive, and stimulating parent-child interactions contribute in many ways to infants’ emerging socio-emotional, cognitive, and language competencies and attachment relationship. ...

As infants’ mobility increases at the end of the first year, they are more likely to move independently and approach prohibited objects or dangerous places, which makes parents more likely to exert control to cease such ...

The present research investigated the concurrent associations between maternal and paternal psychologically controlling parenting and preschoolers’ social-emotional competence in terms of anger-aggression, anxiety-withdrawal, ...

This thesis examines the underlying mechanism of the relationship between maternal warmth and self-esteem in Turkish adolescents while considering gender and self construal characteristics. Two commonly used emotion ...