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Mexican-Origin Family Members' Unique and Shared Family Perspectives of Familism Values and Their Links with Parent-Youth Relationship Quality
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Padilla, Jenny; Jager, Justin; Updegraff, Kimberly A.; McHale, Susan M.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To advance understanding of parents' and adolescents' unique and shared perspectives of familism, a core cultural value in Mexican-origin families, our study addressed 2 goals. First, we identified family members' unique and shared perspectives of familism values using multitrait-multimethod confirmatory factor analysis (Kenny & Kashy, 1992).…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Cultural Influences, Parent Attitudes, Adolescents
Longitudinal Relations of Cultural Orientation and Emotional Expressivity in Chinese American Immigrant Parents: Sociocultural Influences on Emotional Development in Adulthood
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Chen, Stephen H.; Zhou, Qing – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Research in developmental psychology has traditionally focused on parents' roles as agents of emotion socialization in their children's socioemotional development. By contrast, little longitudinal research has examined sociocultural mechanisms shaping parents' own emotional development. Immigrant parents are an ideal population in which to examine…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Immigrants, Parents, Social Influences
Terminal Change across Facets of Affective Experience and Domain Satisfaction: Commonalities, Differences, and Bittersweet Emotions at the End of Life
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Gerstorf, Denis; Hülür, Gizem; Wagner, Gert G.; Kunzmann, Ute; Ram, Nilam – Developmental Psychology, 2018
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question how rates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individual difference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy, angry, fearful, sad) and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Life Satisfaction, Health, Leisure Time
Classroom Norms of Bullying Alter the Degree to Which Children Defend in Response to Their Affective Empathy and Power
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Peets, Kätlin; Pöyhönen, Virpi; Juvonen, Jaana; Salmivalli, Christina – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined whether the degree to which bullying is normative in the classroom would moderate associations between "intra"- (cognitive and affective empathy, self-efficacy beliefs) and "inter"personal (popularity) factors and defending behavior. Participants were 6,708 third- to fifth-grade children (49% boys;…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Attitudes, Student Behavior, Empathy
Developmental Trajectories of Children's Behavioral Engagement in Late Elementary School: Both Teachers and Peers Matter
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De Laet, Steven; Colpin, Hilde; Vervoort, Eleonora; Doumen, Sarah; Van Leeuwen, Karla; Goossens, Luc; Verschueren, Karine – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The present longitudinal study examined how relationships with teachers and peers jointly shape the development of children's behavioral engagement in late elementary school. A sample of 586 children (46% boys; M[subscript age] = 9.26 years at Wave 1) was followed throughout Grades 4, 5, and 6. A multidimensional approach was adopted,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Children's Facial Responsiveness to Odors: Influences of Hedonic Valence of Odor, Gender, Age, and Social Presence.
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Soussignan, Robert; Schall, Benoist – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Facial responsiveness to pleasant and unpleasant odors was examined in 5- to 12-year-old children. Children failed to display reflex-like patterns, but exhibited facial configurations that varied according to odor and social condition. Results suggest that facial responsiveness to odors is flexible and able to reorganize and supports emotional and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Context Effect, Facial Expressions
Social Context as a Determinant of Sex Differences in Adults' Attraction to Infants
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Berman, Phyllis W. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Infants, Research
An Experimental Investigation of Infant Social Referencing: Mothers' Messages and Gender Differences.
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Rosen, Warren D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers used unconstrained or trained facial expressions to convey to their infants messages about happiness or fear concerning a novel object. Results indicated that infants sought and used maternal appraisals; maternal messages of fear lacked clarity; and maternal messages regulated daughters' distance from objects. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Facial Expressions, Fear, Happiness