BACKGROUND Children with developmental delays exhibit more difficulty with certain emotional processes than their typically developing peers, which seems to partially account for the increased risk for the development of social problems in this population. Despite considerable study with typically developing populations, research on parental emotion socialisation in families of children with de...

Discussion (and/or other closing) (DC) sections of research articles in English-medium journals are difficult to write, especially when English is not a first language. This intercultural rhetoric explores whether greater effort made promote than Spanish. I drew ten pairs comparable DC from the EXEMPRAES (exemplary empirical and Spanish) Corpus. systematically annotated these for their communic...

The paper will report about the idea, aim and concept of the European Commission project MOTIVATION starting 2008 and lasting two years. This coordination action will compile an exchange between the partner countries 1 (Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden) about different factors, which influence the image of sciences and technology. Young people often have obsolete a...

This paper reports on the evaluation of a Virtual Social Space (VSS) intended to resolve the problems of isolation and lack of socialisation in a continuing professional distance education Masters programme in Information Technology (MA in ITM). These phenomena are due to geographical dispersion and disparate time schedules of learners. Very often, peer-to-peer socialisation in distance educati...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal research into the development of prosociality contributes vitally to understanding of individual differences in psychosocial outcomes. Most of the research to date has been concerned with prosocial behaviour in typically developing young people; much less has been directed to the course of development in individuals with developmental disorders. AIMS This study reports...

BACKGROUND In this study, we used data from Australia's Northern Territory to assess differences in self-reported smoking prevalence between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. We also used urinary cotinine data to assess the validity of using self-reported smoking data in these populations. METHODS The Aboriginal Birth Cohort (ABC) is a prospective study of 686 Aboriginal babies b...

AIM To identify factors that promote a positive start to school for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHODS Web of Science, MEDLINE, Scopus, and PsychINFO searches were conducted to identify literature published after 1991 and relevant to school transition processes in children with ASD. Twenty studies were deemed eligible for inclusion. These studies evaluated a range of factor...

The study focuses on a small but important segment of Hungarian culture, the musical education children aged 3-7. Its central theme is to examine how adaptation folk games and related movements can be one most complex developmental forces in personality development this age group. This because period fundamental terms cultural transmission plays an integrative role aesthetic education. As pre-s...