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Children at Play: Factors that Influence Young Children’s Social
Skills
July 19, 2007
| What
factors influence young children’s interaction with their peers? A
2001 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study
found that three-year-olds with stronger verbal skills and whose mothers
were sensitive to them in interactions tended to play better with
other children than three-year-olds who had weaker verbal skills and
received less sensitive maternal care. Girls were also more likely
to engage in positive and skilled play with their peers than boys.
The relationship of these factors with children’s sociability, however,
was modest. Read this finding The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist. |
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Findings from the same 2001 study:
 According to mothers' observations, three-year-olds' sociability was associated with their cognitive and language development and temperament...(more) According to caregivers’ observations, three-year-olds’ sociability was associated with their cognitive and language development...(more) Family Research Experts:
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