Sentences with phrase «children more biased»

These parents worry that acknowledging differences will make their children more biased.

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One can take this as a cultural bias, or take it as a tribute.3 In any case the fact is that the woman who fails to measure up in some way to the higher standards expected of her is more likely to excite the contempt of those around her, to forfeit the respect of her children, and (what is most important to our theme) to be dogged by a deep inner sense of personal failure.

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Early adversity, Yeager explains, can make children and adolescents more likely to blame themselves for setbacks, more likely to attribute other people's actions to hostility or bias, and more likely to believe that good things, when they do come, will soon be taken away.

In all these categorizations, however, the bias still leads us away from finding the benefits of breastfeeding / risks of formula because the only «pure» group would be those who followed WHO guidelines and exclusively breastfed on demand for 6 months then continued to nurse for approximately 2 years or more (some children wean before that and they would be biologically normal).

More specifically, the aim was to study the effects of early family relationships on children's emotion regulation, psychological defense mechanisms, and the related biases in their social - emotional information processing (i.e. attention biases to emotional facial expressions).

Although that is true I think a mother who's interest is keeping her child full time, and who doesn't necessarily like or get along with dad is by far more likely to have bias feelings and views than a child who has grown up through something who's experience was there own and who's own feelings about it have no real reason to be one sided.

In other words, the mothers that breastfed their children longer thought a bit more highly of their children, but mothers can be sort of biased, don't you think?

Members of the British Association of Social Workers do not contact us to say they're worried that they have absorbed a left - wing bias, but that they have more children on their books than they can possibly hope to deal with.

More must be done to improve health - care training, particularly to address biases about patients with obesity, and to improve care - delivery strategies, specifically for children with obesity for whom there are currently few treatment options.

«Likewise, children who hold a more benign bias may engage in more positive behavior with friends, especially when this bias is again fueled by intense emotions,» McElwain adds.

For instance, a more hostile attribution bias, combined with high emotional intensity, predicted more negative child - friend interaction.

Children who hold a more hostile bias, for example, may be more likely to act out and engage in negative interactions with friends when the hostile bias is fueled by intense emotions.»

Finding that, amongst otherwise similar children, those who are racial or ethnic minorities are more likely to be identified as disabled would provide strong evidence of racial bias.

It is not whether bias caused educators to label black students as tardy more often, but whether it is educationally sound and justifiable to suspend children for tardiness.

Critics claim that this high number — blacks are 1.4 times more likely to be placed in special education than other races and ethnicities combined — shows that black children are put into special education because schools are racially biased.

Advocates of universal pre-k who wish to ground their position in research better hope the estimates are biased downward because they are very small, e.g., no more than one to three percent of a standard deviation difference between the children in Georgia / Oklahoma vs. other states on fourth grade NAEP achievement scores.

Many researchers worry that I.Q. tests are biased against low - income and nonwhite children, and some recommend a more holistic approach that includes teacher referrals.

Preventing Suspensions and Expulsions in Early Childhood Settings: A Program Leader's Guide to Supporting All Children's Needs offers «resources on supporting social - emotional development, reducing challenging behavior, recognizing the role of cultural differences and implicit biases, and more.»

In a recent survey of ours, 81 percent of respondents said shared parental leave and more shared responsibility associated with child rearing would help break down unconscious biases and improve gender diversity at work.

Child custody evaluations apply — or more accurately, don't apply — principles and constructs from professional psychology in completely haphazard, random, and idiosyncratic ways based on the biases and personal attitudes of the evaluator, and there is absolutely no inter-rater reliability to the conclusions and recommendations reached by the child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same Child custody evaluations apply — or more accurately, don't apply — principles and constructs from professional psychology in completely haphazard, random, and idiosyncratic ways based on the biases and personal attitudes of the evaluator, and there is absolutely no inter-rater reliability to the conclusions and recommendations reached by the child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same child custody evaluator, meaning that two different evaluators can reach entirely different conclusions and recommendations based on the same data.

However, children's media environments are constantly changing, and limitations of this study include its lack of measures of background TV or mobile media, both highly prevalent in children's lives, 18,34 and reliance on parental report, which is subject to more bias than use of a media diary.

While there is some evidence that moms have more often received child custody in the past, it is important to understand that the courts recognize the existence of this bias and that judges work very hard to do what is in the best interest of the child.

Furthermore, mindfulness techniques may help parents to pay attention to their child in a more open, non-judgmental way, instead of having a biased attention for negative cues in the child or a biased (negative) interpretation of the child's behavior.

Peers may develop negatively biased attitudes and expectations for rejected children and treat these children differently (with more counteraggression and hostility) than they treat their well - accepted peers.

He claimed that the legal system has historic gender bias that deems mothers to be more compassionate and better at rearing children.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.

Consistent with a cognitive - distortion model, children with depressive and depressive - aggressive symptoms had more negative conceptions than would be expected given their social status, whereas aggressive - unpopular children demonstrated a self - enhancement bias.

First, in studies in which parents are the sole informant on child outcomes following intervention, there is a potential for reporting bias, as parents might be more invested in the intervention condition and motivated to report improvements in child functioning than parents in control groups.

It is difficult to quantify the extent to which these variations in observation rates will have biased the estimates of child temperament, but based on evidence from the first birth cohort about children's socioemotional development which showed that conduct disorder is less common in children from more advantaged social groups (Bromley and Cunningham - Burley, 2010), it is likely that some bias will have been introduced.

Mothers at a higher risk of child abuse, for example, are more likely to attribute negative traits to children who demonstrate ambiguous behaviour, and see this behaviour as intentional.16 Bugental and her colleagues have administered a cognitive retraining intervention program for parents which aims to alter such biases.

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In a related vein, consistent with theories on emotional contagion according to which intimate partners are highly vulnerable to each other's emotions (Goodman and Shippy 2002), it is conceivable that mothers are biased toward negative emotions due to their partners» psychological difficulties, leading mothers to talk more about these emotions with their children.

Second, in line with the results of other studies that unexpectedly found a negative association between triadic coordination and marital satisfaction in parents (Favez et al., 2011), it is likely that parents in a more positive family context — e.g., with a lower level of coparenting conflict — might be more able to develop reflexive thinking and thus be more critical in their assessment of child symptoms, whereas parents facing difficulties within the family might trigger defense mechanisms, such as denial, leading to a bias in the assessment of their child in a falsely positive way.

Some researchers have argued that associations between abuse and adjustment problems can be explained by reporting biases because many studies of the effects of physical maltreatment use samples for which maltreatment is identified by referral to social service agencies.6 Of the community - wide population of maltreated children, those who are referred may represent a biased, more problematic subgroup.

The results of this study appear to provide more evidence for the «distortion bias» hypothesis, suggesting that depressive cognitions and perspectives of the mother have a greater (negative) effect on their reports of their child's mental health compared to the child's experiences of their own mental well - being.

This may cause potential reporter bias, since cognitive theories of depression suggest that mothers with higher levels of depressive symptoms seem to perceive various aspects of their life, including their child's mental health, in a more negative way compared to mothers with lower levels of depressive symptoms (Kraemer et al. 2003).

Hence, speculatively, perhaps certain proximal correlates of rearing in advantaged socioeconomic environments (e.g. more frequent and consistent exposure to supportive parenting practices and parent — child interactions; more frequent home and school exposures to adult modeling of adaptive decision - making) favorably influence — and in their absence, impede — the assembly and long - term functionality of brain systems supporting top - down or regulatory control functions that, in turn, bias individuals toward less impulsive decision - making (Hackman and Farah, 2009; Hackman et al.

We evaluated the association between dismissing attachment and positive bias in school - aged children's reports of their own emotional experience and their parental care, hypothesizing that: (1) compared to secure children, dismissing children would underreport their subjective distress relative to physiological indicators of distress, and (2) dismissing children would report that their parents were warmer / more caring than would secure children.