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The Relation of Conceptual Tempo to Aggression and Its Control.
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Messer, Stanley B.; Brodzinsky, David M. – Child Development, 1979
Fifth-grade boys and girls were administered the Matching Familiar Figures Test and a projective measure of fantasy aggression and its control. They were also rated sociometrically by peers and teachers on physical, verbal, and indirect forms of overt aggression. Results indicated that conceptual tempo was related to aggression and its control.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education
On the Acquisition of the Discounting Principle: An Experimental Test of a Social-Developmental Model.
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Kassin, Saul M.; Ellis, Shari A. – Child Development, 1988
Studied a social developmental model of discounting. Experiments showed that discounting increased according to the degree of similarity between the task situation and subjects' earlier experience. Although older children discounted consistently, younger children discounted only after a relevant script-generating experience. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Elementary Education
Efforts to Excel and the Type A Behavior Pattern in Children.
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Matthews, Karen A.; Volkin, Janice I. – Child Development, 1981
Type A and Type B children's efforts to achieve were investigated. Type A's solved more arithmetic problems than did Type B's in a no-deadline condition. Type A's held a weight, which matched individual hand strength, 50 percent longer than did Type B's. Ambiguous performance criteria seemed to increase Type A efforts to excel. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Competition
Financial Resources, Parent Psychological Functioning, Parent Co-Caregiving, and Early Adolescent Competence in Rural Two-Parent African-American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined relationships between family financial resources, academic competence, and socioemotional adjustment during early adolescence. Subjects were 90 African American youths and their married parents in the rural South. Found that parents with greater financial resources were less depressed and more optimistic, and their children were better…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Child Rearing
Children's Recall of Aggressive and Withdrawn Behaviors: Recognition Memory and Likability Judgments.
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Younger, Alastair J.; Piccinin, Andrea M. – Child Development, 1989
This study examined children's recognition memory for descriptions of maladjusted behaviors displayed by hypothetical peers. Children were also asked about the desirability of these hypothetical peers as friends. (PCB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Leadership Asymmetries in Mixed-Age Children's Groups.
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French, Doran C.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Observed the decision-reaching and leadership behavior of children in same- amd mixed-age triads by coding their verbalizations in arriving at a consensus for their preference ranking of eight pictures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Efforts to Control by Children and Adults with the Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern.
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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
The Effects of Perceived Daily Social and Academic Failure Experiences on School-Age Children's Subsequent Interactions with Parents.
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Repetti, Rena L. – Child Development, 1996
Tested the basic hypothesis that failure experiences at school increase the likelihood of aversive parent-child interaction after school. Subjects were 254 elementary school students. Found that children who rated more academic failure events at school described parents as more disapproving after school, but this effect was only partially mediated…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior