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Direct linkCheung, Cecilia S.; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Wang, Meifang; Qu, Yang – Child Development, 2016
Research comparing the predictive power of parents' control and autonomy support in the United States and China has relied almost exclusively on children's reports. Such reports may lead to inaccurate conclusions if they do not reflect parents' practices to the same extent in the two countries. A total of 394 American and Chinese children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Personal Autonomy, Cross Cultural Studies
Allen, Joseph P.; Chango, Joanna; Szwedo, David; Schad, Megan; Marston, Emily – Child Development, 2012
The extent to which peer influences on substance use in adolescence systematically vary in strength based on qualities of the adolescent and his or her close friend was assessed in a study of 157 adolescents (age: M = 13.35, SD = 0.64), their close friends, and their parents assessed longitudinally with a combination of observational, analogue,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Adolescents, Peer Influence, Predictor Variables
Cheung, Cecilia S.-S.; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Dong, Wei – Child Development, 2013
The role of adolescents' disclosure to their parents in their academic adjustment was examined in a study of 825 American and Chinese adolescents (mean age = 12.73 years). Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, adolescents reported on their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities to their parents, the quality of their relationships…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Cheung, Cecilia Sin-Sze; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Child Development, 2011
This research examined parents' involvement in children's learning in the United States and China. Beginning in seventh grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.74 years) reported on their parents' involvement in their learning as well as their parents' psychological control and autonomy support every 6 months until the end of 8th…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Examined mother-child interaction in play and teaching tasks. Mother-child interaction aggregates represented task orientation, positive emotion, and allowance of autonomy. Maternal interaction aggregates predicted teachers' ratings of children's positive social behavior, assertiveness, and sadness in the preschool setting. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Assertiveness, Interpersonal Competence, Mothers
Wang, Qian; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Chen, Huichang – Child Development, 2007
This research compared the effects over time of parents' control and autonomy support on children's functioning in the United States and China. American and Chinese (N = 806) seventh graders (mean age = 12.73 years) participated in a 6-month longitudinal study. Children reported on their parents' psychological control, psychological autonomy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Psychology, Parent Role
Peer reviewedMcElhaney, 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
