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Individual Differences in Young Children’s Self-Concepts: Implications for Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

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This chapter reflects a belief that a consideration of the emotional basis of self-understanding will lead to a more accurate picture of the development of the self-concepts of children with clefts of the lip and/or palate (CLP). Recently, there has been a great deal of attention paid to the role of emotionality in personality and self-concept development. For example, Watson and Clark (in press) have delineated the emotional core of extraversion in adults. Emde (1983) and Stern (1985) have suggested that early affective experiences form a core around which children organize their representations of themselves and their world.

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  1. Department of Psychology, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

    Rebecca A. Eder

  2. Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA

    Rebecca A. Eder

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Eder, R.A. (1995). Individual Differences in Young Children’s Self-Concepts: Implications for Children with Cleft Lip and Palate. In: Eder, R.A. (eds) Craniofacial Anomalies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2466-2_8

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