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Eisenberg, Nancy – Developmental Psychology, 2020
In this commentary, I delineate several questions raised by the Hammond and Drummond (2019) paper: (a) to why there seems to be an association between state positive emotion and prosocial behavior in young children, and if and how early positively tinged prosocial behavior provides a pathway to (b) later prosocial behavior more generally…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Positive Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Young Children
Gault-Sherman, Martha – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
As the primary socializing institution of youth, the family has long been recognized as important for predicting delinquency. Social control theory focuses on the effects of parental behavior on adolescent delinquency but fails to take into account the effect of adolescent delinquency on parental behaviors. This study addresses this problem by…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Social Control, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
Esbjorn, B. H.; Bender, P. K.; Reinholdt-Dunne, M. L.; Munck, L. A.; Ollendick, T. H. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2012
Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders in childhood. Nonetheless, theoretical knowledge of the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders is still in its infancy. Recently, research has begun to investigate the influence of emotion regulation on anxiety disorders. Although a relation between anxiety…
Descriptors: Evidence, Anxiety Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Attachment Behavior
Jakobsen, Ida Skytte; Horwood, L. John; Fergusson, David M. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
Previous research has shown that children with high levels of early anxiety/withdrawal are at increased risk of later anxiety and depression. It has also been found that positive parent-child attachment reduces the risk of these disorders. The aim of this paper was to examine the extent to which positive parent-child attachment acted to mitigate…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Parent Role, Attachment Behavior, Children
Ttofi, Maria M.; Bowes, Lucy; Farrington, David P.; Lösel, Friedrich – Journal of School Violence, 2014
A systematic review is presented, based on prospective longitudinal studies, on protective factors that interrupt the continuity from bullying perpetration at school to externalizing problem behaviors later in life; and from bullying victimization to later internalizing problems. Some common factors were established, which seem to interrupt the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Resilience (Psychology), Bullying, Behavior Problems
Tillyer, Marie Skubak; Tillyer, Rob; Miller, Holly Ventura; Pangrac, Rebekah – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The present study examines the relative contributions of various theoretical constructs to violent victimization by operationalizing multiple measures of exposure to motivated offenders, guardianship, and target characteristics. Using a nationally representative sample of American adolescents, we conducted principal components factor analysis and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Factor Analysis, Victims of Crime, Violence
Swenson Goguen, Lisa M.; Hiester, Marnie A.; Nordstrom, Alicia H. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
Developmental theory describes the central importance of peer relationships in the lives of young adults (e.g., Erikson, 1963). In this study we tested the importance of peer relationships to academic outcomes. First-year undergraduates completed a self-report survey to indicate the number and closeness of their friendships. We compared these…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Peer Relationship
Pace, Ugo; Zappulla, Carla – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
We examined the relations between depression, emotional autonomy quality-related constructs of separation and detachment, and suicidal ideation, focusing on the unique and common contribution that depression, separation and detachment made to suicidal ideation. We also examined gender differences. 403 adolescents, 196 boys and 207 girls, completed…
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Depression (Psychology), Males
Howes, Carollee; Vu, Jennifer A.; Hamilton, Claire – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2011
Continuity and intergenerational transmission of representations of attachment were examined in a longitudinal sample of 88 Mexican immigrant mothers and their children who participated in the local intervention group of the Early Head Start Evaluation Study. The authors interviewed mothers with the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Parent…
Descriptors: Mothers, Disadvantaged Youth, Attachment Behavior, Mexican Americans
Demers, Isabelle; Bernier, Annie; Tarabulsy, George M.; Provost, Marc A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
This article examines the quality of maternal mind-mindedness among adult and adolescent mothers, using an assessment of the appropriateness and emotional valence of maternal mind-related comments while interacting with their infants. Twenty-nine adult mothers and 69 adolescent mothers participated in two assessments with their 18-month-old…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Early Parenthood, Attachment Behavior
Kreppner, Jana; Rutter, Michael; Marvin, Robert; O'Connor, Thomas; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund – Social Development, 2011
We set out to explore the meaning of the attachment categories in the Cassidy/Marvin strange situation procedure, as employed in the home, using data from a longitudinal study of children adopted into UK families up to the age of 42 months from Romanian institutions, and of adopted children without the experience of institutional care--both groups…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Behavior Standards, Attachment Behavior, Adoption
Coyl, Diana D.; Newland, Lisa A.; Freeman, Harry – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Associations between preschoolers' attachment security, parenting behaviours (i.e. parent-child involvement, parenting consistency and co-parenting consistency) and parenting context (i.e. parents' internal working models (IWMs) and use of social support) were examined in a sample of 235 culturally diverse families. The authors predicted that…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Attachment Behavior, Questionnaires, Social Support Groups
Cooley, Eileen L.; Van Buren, Amy; Cole, Steven P. – Journal of College Counseling, 2010
Attachment styles, social skills, and depression were studied in 3 college women using the Relationship Questionnaire (K. Bartholomew & L. M. Horowitz, 1991), the Beck Depression Inventory-II (A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), and the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (D. Buhrmester, W. Furman, M. T. Wittenberg, & H.…
Descriptors: Females, Conflict, Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology)
Nosko, Amanda; Tieu, Thanh-Thanh; Lawford, Heather; Pratt, Michael W. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
In this longitudinal study, a quantitative and qualitative examination of the associations among parent-child relations, adult attachment styles, and relationship quality and theme in romantic narratives was conducted. Parenting and adult attachment style were assessed through questionnaires, whereas overall quality of romantic relationships…
Descriptors: Prediction, Child Rearing, Intimacy, Attachment Behavior
Washington, Amy; Dunham, Mardis – Educational Research Quarterly, 2011
This study compared early parenting practices and adolescent behavior to determine whether parental attachment-promoting behaviors in the first year of life were associated with psychosocial adjustment in teenagers. The mothers of 22 adolescents completed a behavioral assessment of their teenager and an inventory of their recollected parenting…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Child Development