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Crockett, Lisa J.; Wasserman, Alexander Michael; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Hoffman, Lesa; Kalutskaya, Irina – Child Development, 2018
This study examined teacher-child conflict as a possible mediator of the effects of temperamental anger and effortful control on subsequent externalizing behavior. Reciprocal influences between teacher-child conflict and externalizing behavior were also examined. Participants were 1,152 children (49% female; 81.6% non-Hispanic White) from the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Self Control, Behavior Problems
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Blankson, A. Nayena; O'Brien, Marion – Child Development, 2009
Associations between maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress and infant social-emotional adjustment were examined in a subset of dyads from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (N = 376). Mothers reported on infant temperament at 1 and 6 months postpartum, and maternal sensitivity to distress and nondistress were observed at 6…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Infants, Child Behavior, Emotional Adjustment
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Martinez-Torteya, Cecilia; Bogat, G. Anne; von Eye, Alexander; Levendosky, Alytia A. – Child Development, 2009
Individual and family characteristics that predict resilience among children exposed to domestic violence (DV) were examined. Mother-child dyads (n = 190) were assessed when the children were 2, 3, and 4 years of age. DV-exposed children were 3.7 times more likely than nonexposed children to develop internalizing or externalizing problems.…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Mothers, Family Characteristics, Personality Traits
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Susman, Elizabeth J.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Relations among hormone levels, emotional dispositions, and aggressive attributes were examined in 56 boys and 52 girls, aged 9 to 14 years. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Aggression, Behavior Problems
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Fabes, Richard A.; Reiser, Mark; Cumberland, Amanda; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Valiente, Carlos; Losoya, Andra H.; Guthrie, Vanna K.; Thompson, Marilyn – Child Development, 2004
The unique relations of effortful control and impulsivity to resiliency and adjustment were examined when children were 4.5 to 8 years old, and 2 years later. Parents and teachers reported on all constructs and children's attentional persistence was observed. In concurrent structural equation models, effortful control and impulsivity uniquely and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Self Control, Young Children, Child Behavior
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Patrick, M. Renee; Snyder, James; Schrepferman, Lynn M.; Snyder, John – Child Development, 2005
The relationship of parental warmth, communication, and tracking (WCT), and child conduct problems in early elementary school (age 5.5 years) to monitoring in late elementary school (age 9.5 years) was longitudinally examined in a sample of 267 boys and girls. WCT in kindergarten was associated with lower kindergarten levels and less growth of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Personality Traits, Young Children
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Zhou, Qing; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Valiente, Carlos; Fabes, Richard A.; Liew, Jeffrey – Child Development, 2005
In a 3-wave longitudinal study (with assessments 2 years apart) involving 186 early adolescents (M ages of approximately 9.3, 11.4, and 13.4), the hypothesis that parental warmth/positive expressivity predicts children's effortful control (EC) (a temperamental characteristic contributing to emotion regulation) 2 years later, which in turn predicts…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Early Adolescents