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Albert Y. H. Lo; Su Yeong Kim; Harold D. Grotevant – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parents' socialization beliefs have implications for the psychological adjustment of their children through their parenting behaviors; however, such pathways have rarely been established among Chinese American families. The present study examined how Chinese American parents' goals for their children to take on bicultural values and behaviors…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Socialization, Chinese Americans, Parenting Styles
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Aldoney, Daniela; Prieto, Fernanda – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
Maternal and paternal involvement are an important predictor of child development. In the current study, we describe the cognitive and affective involvement of parents with their three-year-old children in a sample of 115 Chilean parents of medium/low socioeconomic status. Additionally, we analysed differences in the level of involvement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Mothers, Fathers
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McRae, Caitlin S.; Overall, Nickola C.; Henderson, Annette M. E.; Low, Rachel S. T.; Chang, Valerie T. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Parenting Styles
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Bryant, Lindsey M.; Duncan, Robert J.; Marceau, Kristine; Schmitt, Sara A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examines the extent to which associations between internalizing problems, body mass index (BMI), and language skills from early (36 months) to late childhood (fifth grade) are due to relatively stable between-child differences, time-specific correlations, or cross-lagged paths. Data from the NICHD study, Early Child Care and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Body Composition, Language Skills
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Simpson, Emily G.; Vannucci, Anna; Lincoln, Courtney R.; Ohannessian, Christine McCauley – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study investigates the impact of early adolescent internalizing symptoms on family functioning for girls and boys, as moderated by perceived stress. Surveys were administered to 1,344 middle school students (11-14 years; 51% girls; 51% non-Hispanic White) in the fall of 2016 (T1) and 6 months later in the spring of 2017 (T2). For boys,…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Anxiety Disorders, Depression (Psychology)
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Tighe, Lauren A.; Birditt, Kira S.; Antonucci, Toni C. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The parent-child relationship is often characterized by ambivalence, defined as the simultaneous experience of positive and negative relationship quality. This study examines reports of intergenerational ambivalence in 3 developmental periods: adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood, as well as its implications for depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Young Adults, Late Adolescents
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Low, Justin A.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Jensen, Megan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
The purpose of this research was to determine whether child, parent, and teacher characteristics such as sex, socioeconomic status (SES), parental depressive symptoms, the number of years of teaching experience, number of children in the classroom, and teachers' disciplinary self-efficacy predict deviations from maternal ratings in a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Parents, Depression (Psychology)
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Paulson, James F.; Dauber, Sarah E.; Leiferman, Jenn A. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The role of depression in nonresident fathers' involvement with their infant children is poorly understood. A three-factor model of father involvement was evaluated, and its association with parental relationship quality and depressive symptoms in both parents were tested. Data on 569 families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study were used.…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Fathers, Parent Influence
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V. – Infancy, 2007
Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Fathers, Predictor Variables