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Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard; Antonakos, Cathy L.; Assari, Shervin; Kruger, Daniel; De Loney, E. Hill; Njai, Rashid – Child Development, 2014
This study describes a test of the Fathers and Sons Program for increasing intentions to avoid violence and reducing aggressive behaviors in 8-to 12-year-old African American boys by enhancing the parenting skills satisfaction and parenting behaviors of their nonresident fathers. The study included 158 intervention and 129 comparison group…
Descriptors: Fathers, Sons, Males, Parenting Skills
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Erath, Stephen A.; El-Sheikh, Mona; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2009
Skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) was examined as a moderator of the association between harsh parenting and child externalizing behavior. Participants were 251 boys and girls (8-9 years). Mothers and fathers provided reports of harsh parenting and their children's externalizing behavior; children also provided reports of harsh parenting.…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Females, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Gunnar, Megan R.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Determines the time course of circulating cortisol following circumcision in 80 healthy newborns and investigates whether changes in behavioral state following circumcision in anyway paralleled the adrenocortical time course. Adrenocortical and behavioral data indicated that subjects were able to cope with circumcision trauma. Cortisol levels…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Coping, Males
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Blackwell, Scott L.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
The apprehension spans of learning-disabled and normal boys were compared by means of a forced-choice letter-recognition task involving tachistoscopic exposures of letter displays. Results of three experiments indicated that the decreased spans of apprehension observed in the first experiment for learning-disabled boys resulted either from greater…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Males
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Waller, T. Gary – Child Development, 1976
A comparison was made between the recognition memory of 18 fifth-grade good readers and 18 fifth-grade poor readers, all males. (BRT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Dawson, Geraldine; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Autistic children's direction of hemispheric asymmetry in response to linguistic stimuli differed significantly from that of normal subjects, showing reversed but not necessarily reduced patterns. Autistic children with more advanced language abilities were more likely to exhibit a normal direction of hemispheric asymmetry. Implications are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children
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Stevenson, Michael R.; Black, Kathryn N. – Child Development, 1988
Differences between father-absent and father-present samples were not large. Although study quality was not the best predictor of outcome, the best-quality studies produced nonsignificant estimates of effect size. Most effect-size estimates were less than .5; many were much smaller. (RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
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Hains, Anthony A.; Ryan, Ellen B. – Child Development, 1983
Investigates, among delinquent and nondelinquent subjects ages 10 to 11 and 14 to 15 years, differences exhibited on moral reasoning tasks, social problem solving/metacognition, effects of clues on performance on a social problem-solving task, effects of age, and the interaction of age and delinquency. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Hall, Vernon C.; Turner, Ralph R. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Imitation
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Schexnider, Virginia Y.R.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Human and geometric forms were presented to 12-month-old male infants to determine if infants with a large number of minor physical anomalies would show different habituation than infants with a small number. Differences were found in dishabituation and in response decrement. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Comparative Analysis, Congenital Impairments, Disability Identification
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Matthews, Karen A. – Child Development, 1979
Examines the initial reactions of type A and type B boys and men to uncontrollable events. Type A individuals are characterized by extremes of competitive achievement striving, impatience, and aggression, a pattern of behavior implicated by recent research in the etiology of coronary heart disease. Type B individuals exhibit the relative absence…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students
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Schwartz, David; Dodge, Kenneth; Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 1997
Studied early family experiences of boys who later emerged as both aggressive and bullied during middle childhood. Found that aggressive victims had experienced more punitive, hostile, and abusive family treatment than others. Nonvictimized aggressors had greater exposure to adult aggression, but not victimization, than the normative group,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Child Abuse, Children
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Campbell, Thomas F.; Dollaghan, Christine A.; Rockette, Howard E.; Paradise, Jack L.; Feldman, Heidi M.; Shriberg, Lawrence D.; Sabo, Diane L.; Kurs-Lasky, Marcia – Child Development, 2003
Compared 100 three-year-olds with speech delay of unknown origin and 539 same-age peers with respect to 6 speech disorder variables; also examined abnormal hearing in a subset of 279 children. Found significant odds ratios only for low maternal education, male sex, and positive family history; a child with all 3 factors was 7.71 times as likely to…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Delayed Speech
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Milch-Reich, Shoulamit; Campbell, Susan B.; Pelham, William E., Jr.; Connelly, Lynda M.; Geva, Diklah – Child Development, 1999
Compared the "on-line" (real time, ongoing internal representation) understanding of ongoing social events of boys with and without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Found that younger children and those with ADHD showed less integrated on-line representations, accounting for poor recall and reasoning. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Hoza, Betsy; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Pelham, William E.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Milich, Richard – Child Development, 2000
Compared behavioral, self-evaluative, and attributional responses of boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to those of typically-developing boys on a social success and failure laboratory task. Found that ADHD boys rated their own performance more favorably than controls, were more likely to attribute success to external…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Attribution Theory, Child Behavior, Childhood Attitudes
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