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    Participant roles in preschool bullying: The impact of emotion regulation, social preference, and quality of the teacher–child relationship

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    The present work investigated whether emotion regulation and social preference were associated with participant roles in bullying as a function of the quality of the relationship with teachers. Participants were 332 children (172 boys), in the age of 42–76 months (M = 58.74; SD = 7.84). Peer nominations were employed to assess social preference and participant roles (bullying, victimization, defending the victim, and outsider behavior). Teachers completed the Emotion Regulation Checklist, which yields the dimensions of emotion regulation and lability/negativity, and the Student–Teacher Relationships Scale, to evaluate conflict and closeness with the teacher. Multilevel models highlighted that emotional lability was positively associated with bullying and outsider behavior, emotion regulation was positively related to bullying and defending behavior, and social preference was negatively associated with bullying and victimization and positively with defending behavior. Interactions indicated that lability and low social preference were associated with bullying, and emotion regulation with outsider behavior, in children with a conflictual relationship with the teacher whereas social preference was related to defending behavior in children with a close relationship with the teacher. Results are discussed highlighting the importance of the quality of teacher–child relationship and the relevance of intervention programs aimed at promoting social wellbeing in preschool

    Regolazione emotiva «mediata» dallo smartphone: quali i possibili rischi?

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    La rassegna propone una riflessione su rischi e benefici del ricorso a e-devices nello sviluppo della regolazione emotiva e comportamentale del bambino, nella prima infanzia

    Mothers' social behaviours in the NICU during newborns' hospitalisation: an observational approach

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    The aim of this study was to investigate the individual differences in social behaviours in the NICU of mothers following the premature birth of their babies, and to verify whether these early behaviours predict later sensitivity at 3 months of the infant’s corrected age. Videos of mothers attending to the newborn in the NICU (at 15, 30 and 45 days post-partum) and during free interaction at home 3 months later were collected. During hospitalisation, multiple dimensions related to the mother and to the baby were assessed. Results show that the more severe the baby’s condition the more mothers tend to only focus on rather than speak to their baby. Physical closeness facilitated by the baby’s position as well as maternal security of attachment were positively associated with communicative behaviours, while different patterns of associations were found with traumatic symptoms of intrusion and avoidance following the premature birth, suggesting opposite effects of these two types of symptoms on the mothers’ behaviours. Controlling the attachment security, mothers’ smiling at the baby in the NICU predicted later sensitivity in interaction with their infants. These preliminary results may have important practical implications for the use of intervention programmes in the NICU
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