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Tracing the Cascade of Children's Insecurity in the Interparental Relationship: The Role of Stage-Salient Tasks
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Davies, Patrick T.; Manning, Liviah G.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether children’s difficulties with stage-salient tasks served as an explanatory mechanism in the pathway between their insecurity in the interparental relationship and their disruptive behavior problems. Using a multimethod, multi-informant design, 201 two-year-old children and their mothers participated in 3 annual…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models
A Contextual-Moderator Analysis of Emotional Autonomy and Adjustment in Adolescence.
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Fuhrman, Teresa; Holmbeck, Grayson N. – Child Development, 1995
For a sample of 96 adolescents, found that, when the affective nature of the parent-adolescent relationship was positive, adolescent adjustment was more likely to be positive when adolescents reported less rather than more emotional autonomy. When family environments were stressful, emotional autonomy was positively associated with adolescent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Competence
The Relation of Attachment Security to Adolescents' Paternal and Peer Relationships, Depression, and Externalizing Behavior
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Allen, Joseph P.; Porter, Maryfrances; McFarland, Christy; McElhaney, Kathleen Boykin; Marsh, Penny – Child Development, 2007
The relation of attachment security to multiple domains of psychosocial functioning was examined in a community sample of 167 early adolescents. Security of attachment organization, assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview, was linked to success in establishing autonomy while maintaining a sense of relatedness both with fathers and with…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Correlation
Emotional Autonomy Redux: Revisiting Ryan and Lynch.
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Lamborn, Susie D.; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 1993
Compared adjustment scores among adolescents who differ in both emotional autonomy and perceptions of parental support. Found that, although adolescents who scored high in both emotional autonomy and relationship support reported more internal distress and behavior problems than less autonomous adolescents, they had higher levels of psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Adjustment
Adolescent-Parent Conflict among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong.
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Yau, Jenny; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1996
Interviewed 120 early, mid, and late adolescents of lower-class Chinese families to examine adolescent-parent conflict. Found that conflicts were primarily with mothers, of moderate frequency and severity, and occurred over everyday issues. Adolescents wanted greater autonomy in decision making than their parents granted them, but parents' views…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Autonomy and Adolescent Social Functioning: The Moderating Effect of Risk.
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McElhaney, Kathleen Boykin; Allen, Joseph P. – Child Development, 2001
Examined the moderating effect of risk on the relation between autonomy processes and family and adolescent functioning. In families in low-risk contexts, behavior undermining autonomy was negatively related to relationship quality; adolescents' autonomy expressions related to positive social functioning. In high-risk-context families, undermining…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior