The relations among young children's peer-reported trustworthiness, inhibitory control, and preschool adjustment

Ken J. Rotenberg; Nicole Michalik; Nancy Eisenberg; Lucy R. Betts

doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.04.003

The relations among young children's peer-reported trustworthiness, inhibitory control, and preschool adjustment

Ken J. Rotenberg, Nicole Michalik, Nancy Eisenberg, Lucy R. Betts

Psychology

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Abstract

Sixty-five (38 male and 27 female) preschool children (mean age = 5 years 1 month) completed measures of peers' trustworthiness (promise keeping and secret keeping). Teachers rated the preschool children's inhibitory control, trustworthiness, and preschool adjustment. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) yielded support for the hypothesized model. The expected positive paths were found from (1) gender to preschool adjustment and inhibitory control, (2) age to peer-reported trustworthiness, (3) peer-reported trustworthiness to preschool adjustment, (4) inhibitory control to peer-reported trustworthiness, and (5) inhibitory control to preschool adjustment. The findings confirmed the hypothesized development of trustworthiness with age and girls' advantage over boys in inhibitory control and preschool adjustment. The findings supported the hypotheses that trustworthiness is associated with preschool adjustment and mediates, in part, the relation between inhibitory control and preschool adjustment.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	288-298
Number of pages	11
Journal	Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.04.003
State	Published - Jun 2008

Keywords

Inhibitory control
Peer-reported trustworthiness
Preschool adjustment
Young children

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

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