The Relationship Between Children's Perceptions of Ability and Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness: Comment on Felson and Bohrnstedt's "Are the Good Beautiful or the Beautiful Good?"

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
The Relationship

A Study of the Relationship between Physical Awkwardness and Children’s Perceptions of Physical Competence

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice L. Causgrove Dunn ◽  
E Jane. Watkinson
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Physical Competence ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
The Relationship

This study explored the relationship between perceived physical competence and physical awkwardness in an effort to gain further understanding of the effects of motor incompetence on behavior. Subjects included 195 children in Grades 3 through 6. Multiple regression analysis found that gender, the importance attached to physical competence, and the interaction between severity of awkwardness and grade were significant predictors of perceptions of physical competence. As expected, males reported higher perceptions of physical competence than females. In addition, the higher the rating that subjects attached to the importance of physical competence, the higher their perceptions of physical competence. Investigation of the interaction between severity of awkwardness and grade revealed that the expected decrease in perceptions of competence associated with increasing severity of awkwardness was present only in third-grade children. It is suggested that older awkward children may utilize strategies to maintain positive perceptions of competence and motivation.

Young children’s perceptions of their relationships with family members: Links with family setting, friendships, and adjustment

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 521-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Sturgess ◽  
Judy Dunn ◽  
Lisa Davies
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Externalising Problems ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Family Setting ◽  
The Relationship

A total of 258 children aged 4-7 years, from 192 families of diverse structure (stepfather, single parent, stepmother/complex stepfamilies, and nonstep families), participated in this study of young children’s perceptions of their family relationships. Children completed a Four Field Map, in which they placed their family members and friends in a series of concentric circles representing the closeness of the relationship. Biological relatedness and family type affected the placement of fathers, but not mothers or siblings; children in stepfather families were more likely to place their stepfathers as “not close”. Links were found between the quality of child-mother and child-sibling relationships and the closeness of children’s friendships. Children’s externalising problems were related to their perceptions of their relationships with fathers and their prosocial behaviour to their closeness with both fathers and mothers.

Children's Perceptions of Counter-Depressive Activities

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1251-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wierzbicki
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children's Depression Inventory ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Depression Inventory ◽  
Children’S Depression ◽  
The Relationship

Children's perceptions of counter-depressive activities were examined as a function of their sex, age, and level of depression. In Study 1, 322 children aged 8 to 12 yr. were asked to identify as many counter-depressive activities as possible. Girls provided more counter-depressive responses than boys and more often reported Help-seeking responses, while boys more frequently produced both Activity and Recreation responses. In Study 2, 98 children, ages 8 to 14 yr., completed the Children's Depression Inventory and generated counter-depressive activities. Girls provided more counter-depressive activities than boys, and older children provided more counter-depressive activities than younger ones. Although depression scores were unrelated to the types of counter-depressive activities provided, they were modestly, though statistically significantly, correlated with the number of counter-depressive activities: as depression increased, children listed fewer coping activities. The relationship between children's perceptions of counter-depressive activities and those of adults is discussed.

scholarly journals “It Is Like Compulsory to Go, but It Is still pretty Nice”: Young Children’s Views on Physical Activity Parenting and the Associated Motivational Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 2315
Author(s):  
Arto Laukkanen ◽  
Arja Sääkslahti ◽  
Kaisa Aunola
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
High Responsiveness ◽  
Motivational Regulation ◽  
Parenting Dimensions ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
The Relationship

Physical activity parenting (PAP) is consistently correlated with children’s physical activity (PA). Children’s perception of PAP has garnered little attention given that it mediates the relationship between PAP and child PA outcomes. This study aimed to examine 7–10-year-old children’s perspectives on PAP practices and how they relate to their motivational regulation of PA. A total of 79 children 7–10 years of age participated in 19 semi-structured focus group interviews. Through qualitative theory-guided content analysis, using frameworks of parenting dimensions and self-determination theory (SDT), we found that children’s perceptions of high responsiveness and low demandingness in PAP—according to SDT, autonomy support, involvement, and structure—were associated with satisfaction of all three psychological basic needs—autonomy, competence, and relatedness. In contrast, perceptions of high demandingness and low responsiveness in PAP, i.e., coercive control, were associated with dissatisfaction of autonomy need. However, perceptions of high demandingness and high responsiveness in PAP, specifically parental expectations and facilitation of PA, were associated with satisfaction of competence need. It seems possible to identify different types of PAP practices associated with children’s motivation for PA. Different forms of parental demandingness with differing motivational outcomes were uniquely identified from the children’s perceptions of PAP.

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