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Marital Relationship Quality and Couples' Cognitive Stimulation Practices toward Their Infants: Actor and Partner Effects of White and Hispanic Parents
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Sotomayor-Peterson, Marcela; Wilhelm, Mari S.; Card, Noel A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The present study explores actor and partner effects on mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation within an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). This model allows us to evaluate whether mothers' and fathers' practices are impacted not only by their own experiences but also by their partners' experiences. The APIM treats the couple as the…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Mothers, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
Parental Beliefs about Young Children's Socialization across US Ethnic Groups: Coexistence of Independence and Interdependence
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Suizzo, Marie-Anne; Chen, Wan-Chen; Cheng, Chi-Chia; Liang, Angel S.; Contreras, Helen; Zanger, Dinorah; Robinson, Courtney – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
This study compared dimensions of independence and interdependence in parents' beliefs about daily child-rearing practices across four ethnic groups. Two questionnaires were completed by 310 parents of preschool-age children, and three belief constructs were identified. "Conformity" was least valued by European Americans. "Autonomy" was equally…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Asian Americans, Socialization
Preschool Teachers' Perceptions of and Responses to Differences: Disability, Family, and Racial/Cultural Variation.
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Trolley, Barbara C.; Magerkorth, Rebecca; Fromme, Rebecca E. – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Preschool teachers and directors from special education, Head Start, and day care centers completed a questionnaire assessing their perceptions of diversity and resources utilized in relation to diversity. Respondents indicated that children with "differences" should be treated like "children"; children with "differences" were defined by the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Disabilities, Individual Differences