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Halim, May Ling; Ruble, Diane; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine; Shrout, Patrick E. – Child Development, 2013
A key prediction of cognitive theories of gender development concerns developmental trajectories in the relative strength or rigidity of gender typing. To examine these trajectories in early childhood, 229 children (African American, Mexican American, and Dominican American) were followed annually from age 3 to 5 years, and gender-stereotypical…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Gender Differences, Minority Group Children, Longitudinal Studies
Golombok, Susan; Mellish, Laura; Jennings, Sarah; Casey, Polly; Tasker, Fiona; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2014
Findings are presented on a U.K. study of 41 gay father families, 40 lesbian mother families, and 49 heterosexual parent families with an adopted child aged 3-9 years. Standardized interview and observational and questionnaire measures of parental well-being, quality of parent-child relationships, child adjustment, and child sex-typed behavior…
Descriptors: Fathers, Homosexuality, Adoption, Foreign Countries
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Criss, Michael M.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 2009
This study examined childhood antecedents and developmental outcomes associated with trajectories of mild and harsh parental physical discipline. Interview, questionnaire, and observational data were available from 499 children followed from ages 5 to 16 and from 258 children in an independent sample followed from ages 5 to 15. Analyses indicated…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Family Environment

Nucci, Larry P.; Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 1978
Observations were made in ten preschools of children's interactions in two domains of social events: social conventional and moral. Interviews were also administered to children from the preschool to determine whether they made a conceptual distinction between social conventional and moral events. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Interviews, Moral Issues, Observation

Stewart, Robert B.; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Firstborn children's reaction to sibling birth assessed in 41 families via family interviews at 1 month prepartum and 1, 4, 8, and 12 months postpartum. Familial interaction patterns were observed in semistructured play sessions. Time since the birth of the sibling and sibling gender had significant effects on firstborn children's adjustment.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Birth, Family Relationship, Home Visits

Killen, Melanie; Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1999
Two studies examined preschool teacher and child interactions regarding personal, moral, and socioconventional issues in the classroom and the development of personal concepts. Findings suggested that in both judgments and social interactions, teachers and children identified a personal domain in which children can and should make choices about…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Interviews, Observation

Crockenberg, Susan B. – Child Development, 1981
Results indicate that (1) social support is the best predictor of secure attachment and is most important for mothers with irritable babies, (2) maternal unresponsiveness is associated with resistance during reunion episodes and appears to be a mechanism through which anxious attachment develops, and (3) social support may mitigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Characteristics, Infants, Interviews

Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 1983
The development of sociometric status in children's peer groups over time was observed among 48 unacquainted second-grade boys brought together in play groups of eight boys each. Observers recorded free-play interaction behaviors of each boy by using a complex event-recording system and video cameras. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2

Harwood, Robin L.; Schoelmerich, Axel; Schulze, Pamela A.; Gonzalez, Zenaida – Child Development, 1999
Examined cultural patterning in situational variability in mother-infant interactions among middle-class Anglo and Puerto Rican mothers and 12- to 15-month-old firstborns. Found that the emphasized socialization goals and childrearing strategies were consonant with individualistic orientations for Anglo mothers and sociocentric orientations for…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences, Hispanic Americans

Nucci, Larry P.; Nucci, Maria Santiago – Child Development, 1982
Observations were made in 10 schools at the second-, fifth-, and seventh-grade levels of the forms of responses teachers and children provided to moral and social conventional transgressions. It was found that the responses of both teachers and children to social conventional events differed from their responses to moral events. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interviews