The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom (open access)

The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom

Article asserts that despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children’s verbal participation in these interactions. The authors of the article examine how preschool classroom contexts influenced the abstraction level of children’s conversations and how the context and conversational partners’ language influenced children’s verbal participation.
Date: April 25, 2022
Creator: Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K. & Uanhoro, James O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis (open access)

Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis

This article is a meta-analysis examining the association of birth order and divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to examine how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) is related to creativity. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed M.; Tadik, Harun; Acar, Selcuk & Runco, Mark A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana (open access)

RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana

This article explores the relationship between intimate Domestic Violence and Parental Stress in Mexican women.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Brito-Tinajero, Carlos Adrián; Delgadillo-Guzmán, Leonor Guadalupe & Nievar, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library