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Interests: cognitive psychology; pediatric headache; children psychotherapy; children psychopathology; neurodevelopmental disorders
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Dear Colleagues,

During the course of life, cognitive and emotional development go hand in hand. A delay or impairment in one can affect the development of the other. For example, a motor delay may impair a child's ability to explore the environment, and a language delay may affect a child's ability to relate appropriately, causing a reduction in the child's opportunities to experience and train social skills.

Understanding how cognitive and emotional development influence each other during development is crucial in order to plan effective interventions that take into account a child's difficulties in a comprehensive manner. Treating a cognitive difficulty without taking into account the emotional component and vice versa may result in a failure to achieve the therapeutic objective and affect the individual's quality of life.

This Research Topic welcomes original research articles that report unpublished studies regarding emotional and cognitive development in children with typical and atypical development. Case report articles that report particular cases of children and adolescents that present impairments and difficulties in emotional and cognitive abilities will be welcomed. I also encourage the submission of systematic review articles that present a synthesis of previous research regarding emotional and cognitive development that uses systematic and clearly defined methods to identify, categorize, analyze, and report aggregated evidence on this specific topic. Finally, review and mini review articles focused on aspects of a current area of investigation and its recent developments that present a complete overview of the state of the art are welcomed.

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Dr. Noemi Faedda
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The Judgments and Emotion Attributions in Peer Exclusion Situations among Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Graders in Japan

Mari Hasegawa

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(7), 5306; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075306 - 29 Mar 2023

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This study examined the judgments and emotion attributions in peer exclusion situations among Japanese middle-childhood children (fourth graders and sixth graders) and adolescents (eighth graders). In total, 371 participants were presented with one of three bystander conditions—no bystander, passive bystander, or active bystander—and asked to judge the excluders’ behavior and attribute emotions toward excluders. Here, excluders are children who physically or emotionally separate other children from social groups. All scenarios involved a child wishing to join a peer group but was rejected (that is, excluded from the group), and there were three types of situations: one in which there were no bystanders, one in which the bystanders did not respond, and one in which the bystanders allowed the excluded child into their group. The excluded target was presented as either violent or shy. Furthermore, the participants assessed their own bullying and bystander behaviors in their daily lives. Adolescents judged excluders as less immoral and as having positive emotions more often than did children. Both children and adolescents judged the exclusion of violent targets to be less serious than the exclusion of shy targets. There were no differences in judgments and attributions according to bystander types. There was weak evidence of a relationship between self-reported bullying/bystander behavior, and judgment in fictitious settings was obtained. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Emotional and Cognitive Development in Children)

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Social Avoidance and Social Adjustment in Chinese Preschool Migrant Children: The Moderating Role of Household Chaos and Gender

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16769; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416769 - 14 Dec 2022

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The present study explored the moderating role of household chaos and gender in the relation between social avoidance and social adjustment among Chinese preschool migrant children. Participants were 148 children (82 boys, M_age = 62.63 months, SD = 0.05) from two kindergartens, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Multi-source assessments included: (1) mother ratings of children’s social avoidance; (2) mother ratings of families’ household chaos; (3) teacher ratings of children’s prosocial behavior, peer exclusion, interpersonal skills, and internalizing problems. Results showed that social avoidance significantly predicted peer exclusion among Chinese migrant preschoolers. Moreover, household chaos moderated the relationship between social avoidance and social adjustment. Specifically, at higher levels of household chaos, social avoidance was negatively associated with interpersonal skills. In contrast, social avoidance was not associated with interpersonal skills at a lower level of household chaos. In addition, social avoidance was positively associated with peer exclusion among boys but not girls. The current findings inform us of the importance of reducing household chaos to buffer the negative adjustment among socially avoidant young children who migrated from rural to urban China. The findings also highlight the need to pay particular attention to migrant socially avoidant boys’ development in early childhood and the importance of considering the meaning and implication of social avoidance for migrant preschoolers in Chinese culture. Full article

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