Journal article
Problem-Solving Thinking and Adjustment among Disadvantaged Preschool Children
Child development, Vol.42(6), pp.1791-1803
Dec 1971
PMID: 5172420
Abstract
The relationship between school behavior adjustment of 4-year-old disadvantaged children and real-life problem-solving thinking was studied. The latter includes 3 parameters of thought-conceptualization of solutions to typical peer and authority problems, consequential thinking, and causal thinking. Resulting data show that the ability to conceptualize alternative solutions to problems was the only parameter directly related to teacher-rated judgments of classroom behavior but that all 3 parameters were significantly interrelated. Implications are that increasing a child's ability to think in terms of alternative solutions to real-life problems could supplement a primary preventive mental health program.
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- Title
- Problem-Solving Thinking and Adjustment among Disadvantaged Preschool Children
- Creators
- Myrna B. Shure - Drexel University, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia (1885-1982)George Spivack - Drexel University, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia (1885-1982)Marianne Jaeger - Drexel University, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia (1885-1982)
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.42(6), pp.1791-1803
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1971M270000010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0015185563
- Other Identifier
- 991022064035104721