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Peer reviewedSaxe, Geoffrey B. And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1987
Reports on interplay between social and developmental processes in children's numerical understandings in working- and middle-class home settings. Methods included interviews with 78 children aged 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 years to assess their numerical understandings, interviews with the mothers about their children's everyday number activities, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedLamb, Michael E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Type and quality of nonfamilial child care were found to have no significant effect on peer social skills, sociability with strange adults, and child personality. The major determinants of personality maturity were background variables. Prior social skills and age were the best predictors of peer social skills. (PCB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Characteristics
Peer reviewedPerry, Louise C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Confirmed the hypothesis that happiness leads to self-indulgence when children have no reason to believe that excessive self-gratification is morally wrong but that happiness promotes self-denial when children fear that excessive self-gratification violates a moral rule. Results with 112 White, middle-class, Australian children ages four to five…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examines change in prosocial moral judgment over a seven-year period; determines whether there are gender differences in the development of prosocial moral judgment; and examines the interrelations of moral judgment, affect (sympathy), and behavior in middle childhood. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Petersen, Anne C. – 1986
A longitudinal study of early adolescents examined gender differences in attitude and behavior, as well as the effects of pubertal change, parental expectations, and parental support. It was hypothesized that sex differences would emerge during preadolescence and that males' and females' rates of change would be significantly different. Subjects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
