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Greenberger, Ellen; McLaughlin, Caitlin – 1993
This study examined the relationships of early and current attachment styles to the coping strategies late adolescents employ when faced with problems and to the attributions they make concerning their successes and failures. Subjects were 157 late adolescents, ages 18 to 22, taken from an ethnically diverse sample of university students. Subjects…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Coping
Guttentag, Cathy; Alex, Stefany – 1997
This study examined parents' and children's affect regulation skills and constructive behavior to test whether a modeling mechanism or a parent-child interaction mechanism best accounted for children's behavior. Thirty-six married couples and their 4- to 7-year-old children participated in the study. The families were asked to play a board game…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
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Cole, Pamela M.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
This essay asserts that clinical conceptualizations of emotion that stress its disruptive influences and functional models of emotion that emphasize its adaptive aspects can be integrated into a developmental psychopathology framework. Under certain conditions, emotion regulation may develop dysregulatory aspects that can become a characteristic…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Kurtz, Linda – 1994
Since the early 1980s researchers have increasingly turned to family systems theory and stress and coping theory to conceptualize the relationship between parental adjustment and children's adaptive process. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of maternal coping strategies upon the adaptive processes of children. That is, how…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Child Development, Coping
Kindler, Heinz; Grossmann, Karin – 1997
A supportive father as well as a supportive mother may foster offspring's healthy development. But what the behavior of a supportive parent looks like may in part depend upon whether the parent is a mother or a father. From the beginnings of empirical research on fathers, the father's role in traditional western families has been conceptualized as…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing, Coping
Spirek, Melissa M.; Sparks, Glenn G. – 1993
A study extended a previous study (Sparks and Spirek, 1988) by examining children's individual differences in coping with stressful mass media. The investigation proposed that scores on the Children's Coping Measure (CCM) are related to the intensity of negative affect children experience while watching a frightening program. Eighty-two fifth and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audience Response, Child Behavior, Coping