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Does Felt Gender Compatibility Mediate Influences of Self-Perceived Gender Nonconformity on Early Adolescents' Psychosocial Adjustment?
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Menon, Meenakshi – Child Development, 2011
This study evaluated the hypothesis that self-perceived gender nonconformity is distressing to children because it undermines a confident sense of gender compatibility. Participants were 357 early adolescents (180 boys, M age = 12.68 years) in England who responded to questionnaires measuring friendship styles (preoccupied, avoidant), gender…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
Interactions Between Child Behavior Patterns and Parent Supervision: Implications for Children's Risk of Unintentional Injury
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Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Klemencic, Nora; Corbett, Michael – Child Development, 2008
Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children. Prior research has implicated both child behavioral attributes and parent supervisory patterns as risk factors. The present study assessed interactions between these two risk factors and determined whether supervision moderates the relation between child attributes and injury.…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Risk, Injuries
Parental Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior: Revisiting Stattin and Kerr
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Fletcher, Anne C.; Steinberg, Laurence; Williams-Wheeler, Meeshay – Child Development, 2004
High school students (approximately 14-18 years old; N=2,568) completed questionnaires in which they reported on their involvement in substance use and delinquency, and their perceptions of parental warmth, control, monitoring, and knowledge. Three alternative models were compared describing the nature of relations among these variables. Problem…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Models, Adolescents, Behavior Problems
A Twin-Study of Sleep Difficulties in School-Aged Children
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Gregory, Alice M.; Rijsdijk, Fruhling V.; Eley, Thalia C. – Child Development, 2006
This study examines frequency, overlap, and genetic and environmental influences on sleep difficulties, which are understudied in school-aged children. The Sleep Self Report and the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire were completed by 300 twin pairs (aged 8 years) and their parents. Child report suggested more frequent sleep problems than…
Descriptors: Sleep, Children, Genetics, Environmental Influences
A Longitudinal Investigation of Personality and Social Adjustment among Chinese American and European American Adolescents
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Huntsinger, Carol S.; Jose, Paul E. – Child Development, 2006
A 2-wave longitudinal study of personality in adolescence was conducted with data obtained at ages 12 and 17 years from approximately 60 European American and 60 second-generation Chinese American youth. At Time 1 they completed the Children's Personality Questionnaire and at Time 2 they completed the High School Personality Questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Personality, Social Adjustment, Chinese Americans
Relations of Maternal Style and Child Self-Concept to Autobiographical Memories in Chinese, Chinese Immigrant, and European American 3-Year-Olds
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Wang, Qi – Child Development, 2006
The relations of maternal reminiscing style and child self-concept to children's shared and independent autobiographical memories were examined in a sample of 189 three-year-olds and their mothers from Chinese families in China, first-generation Chinese immigrant families in the United States, and European American families. Mothers shared…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Memory, Foreign Countries, Immigrants