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The Legacy of Harsh Parenting: Enduring and Sleeper Effects on Trajectories of Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms
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Morgan J. Thompson; J. Benjamin Hinnant; Stephen A. Erath; Mona El-Sheikh – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Guided by developmental models examining the legacy of childhood caregiving environments, we examined the longitudinal pattern of associations between harsh parenting and children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms across late childhood to late adolescence. Participants included 199 youth (48.7% female, 65.3% White, 32.2% Black, 2.5%…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Youth, Longitudinal Studies
The Interplay between Language, Gesture, and Affect during Communicative Transition: A Dynamic Systems Approach
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Parlade, Meaghan V.; Iverson, Jana M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
From a dynamic systems perspective, transition points in development are times of increased instability, during which behavioral patterns are susceptible to temporary decoupling. This study investigated the impact of the vocabulary spurt on existing patterns of communicative coordination. Eighteen typically developing infants were videotaped at…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Infants, Vocabulary Development, Developmental Stages
Expression of Negative Affect within Disciplinary Encounters: Is There Dyadic Reciprocity?.
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Dowdney, Linda; Pickles, A. R. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined the evidence for the reciprocity of negative affect between mothers and young children in disciplinary encounters. Although children responded contingently and reciprocally to maternal negativity, they also reacted negatively to maternal positive affect. (SH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Discipline, Mothers
Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Sequence of Dyadic States at 3, 6, and 9 Months.
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Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Tronick, Edward Z. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Tests three previously untested hypotheses central to the theory of Brazelton and colleagues about the sequential structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction. Results show that with some revision the hypotheses describe the structure of mother-infant face-to-face interaction from three to nine months of age. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Infants
Emotional Responses of Down Syndrome and Normal Infants in the Strange Situation: The Organization of Affective Behavior in Infants.
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Thompson, Ross A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Compares the separation distress of 26 19-month-old Downs Syndrome infants in the Strange Situation with that of 43 normal infants who were observed at 12 1/2 and 19 1/2 months to assess whether Downs Syndrome infants responded more similarly to cognitively comparable normals than to age-comparable normals. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Mothers' Affective Behavior with Infant Siblings: Stability and Change.
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Moore, Ginger A.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Campbell, Susan B. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Observed face-to-face interactions between 39 mothers and their first and second-born two-month olds to evaluate within-family differences in maternal affective behavior toward siblings. Found that mothers were more positive with second-borns than firstborns, and second-borns were more positive than firstborns. Siblings' affective behaviors were…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Birth Order
Transitions and Turning Points: Navigating the Passage from Childhood through Adolescence.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents