Social Development Lab Waterloo

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Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways The authors examined temperamental and sociocognitive predictors of socially anxious behavior from preschool to early adolescence. Children (N = 227; 59% male; 69% White) completed a speech task at a...

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Toddlers and Preschoolers Understand That Some Preferences Are More Subjective Than Others Four experiments examined Canadian 2- to 3-year-old children’s (N = 224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person’s...

The Social Development Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo is seeking parents of children 6 – 8 years old currently living in Ontario to contribute to an online study in which we are examining the associations between children’s contact with peers and their everyday emotions and behaviours during the pandemic. This study will include a series of online questionnaires over the span of 3 month. This study has been reviewed and has received ethics clearance through the University of Waterloo Research Ethics Board. You will be asked to complete a short set of online questionnaires once a month for the next 3 months. Each online session will take approximately 20 minutes.

Eligibility
Participants must be a parent/guardian of a child who is 6 to 8 years of age.

What will you be asked to do?
Participants will be asked to complete an online questionnaire about their child’s typical behaviours and emotions and their own experiences over the past month. In the first session, you will be asked to complete a consent form followed by questions about family demographics and a series of questions about your child’s daily activities over the past month. In the second and third sessions (approximately 1 month and 2 months from the first session), you will be asked to complete only the consent form and the measures about your child’s daily activities, their typical behaviours, and emotions and your own experiences.

Remuneration
Following each online session, you will be remunerated with a $10 Amazon gift card by e-mail (for a total of $30 by the end of the study).

Confidentiality
All of the personal information we collect is considered strictly confidential and individual results will not be shared with anyone, nor will names be written on any data.

TO PARTICIPATE OR LEARN MORE ABOUT THE STUDY E-MAIL CONNIE YE AT sdl@uwaterloo

Is your child learning English as a second language?
We are looking for parents with children aged 4 to 12 to complete an online study about their child’s English language learning and language background. In total the study should take approximately 1 hour to complete. For your participation, you will receive a $10 gift card to your choice of Amazon.ca, Wal-Mart or Chapters & Indigo. Click the link to sign up: https://uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aazbcyqBadIklBY

The study is in English, however, if you would like the study in a language other than English, we are happy to accommodate your request. Some more information about the study can be found below.

We are interested in how children from all different types of language background learn English. The study consists of a few questionnaires to be filled out by a yourself (the parent or guardian) and two tasks to be completed with your child. We will ask you questions about your and your child’s language background, your child’s English learning and some demographic questions. There will also be a task where we ask you to record your child telling a story, and another where they answer some questions about their friends.

For more information about this study, you may contact the primary researcher at [email protected]. This study has been reviewed and received ethics clearance through a University of Waterloo Research Ethics Committee.

We've moved online!!

Looking for new things to do with your child? Do you think your child would enjoy participating in science? If your child is between the ages of 3-7, they are eligible to sign-up for one of our short studies on how children think. Participation is easy, fun, and free! Children get a certificate at the end and a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Our researchers are based at the University of Waterloo but you can participate in our activities from home over video chat!

For more information about our studies, please visit https://www.uwcoral.ca/

To sign-up, please visit https://www.uwcoral.ca/sign-up

If you have any questions, you can contact us at [email protected]

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