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@article{Jennings2015EarlyCT, title={Early Childhood Teachers’ Well-Being, Mindfulness, and Self-Compassion in Relation to Classroom Quality and Attitudes Towards Challenging Students}, author={Patricia A. Jennings}, journal={Mindfulness}, year={2015}, volume={6}, pages={732-743}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:51901002}}
  • Patricia A. Jennings
  • Published 31 July 2015
  • Education, Psychology
  • Mindfulness

Early childhood teachers are instrumental in creating socially and emotionally supportive learning environments for young children. However, there is a paucity of research examining teachers’ psychosocial characteristics in relation to the dimensions of quality learning environments. Furthermore, little is known about the relationship between teachers’ psychosocial characteristics and their attitudes about children whose behavior they find challenging. The present study examined data from 35…

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