Experiencing The Lifespan JANET BELSKY Experiencing The Lifespan 3rd edition Chapter 6: Socioemotional Development Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Table 6.1 Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Figure 6.1 How do children view themselves?: Harter has devised this questionnaire format to measure children’s feelings of competence in her five different areas of life. The item in the top panel is derived from Harter’s scale designed for young children; the questions in the bottom panel are from a similar scale for elementary school children. JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Table 6.2 Externalizing and Internalizing Problems, Self-Esteem Distortions, and Consequences—A Summary Table JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Table 6.3 Identifying Your Self-Esteem Distortions: A Checklist Using Harter’s Five Domains JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Table 6.4 How to Produce Prosocial Children: A Summary Table JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Table 6.5 Aggression: A Summary of the Types JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Figure 6.2 The relationship between mothers’ reports of spanking at 15 months and externalizing behavior at age 4, for temperamentally difficult and easy children, from a longitudinal study: In this research, notice that if a child was temperamentally easy, being regularly spanked during toddlerhood slightly increased the risk of having later externalizing problems. However, this discipline style had a huge negative impact on development for toddlers with difficult temperaments. Bottom line: Power assertion is poisonous for a temperamentally at-risk child. JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers

JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers Figure 6.3 How being popular relates to being personally liked for girls in middle school: In this study, children in different grades were asked which classmates were popular and which classmates they liked the most. notice that, by ninth grade, there was little relationship between being viewed as in the “popular” group and being seen as well liked. Did you really like the kids in the “in-crowd” at your school? JANET BELSKY Copyright © 2013, 2011 by Worth Publishers