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Peer reviewedWenger, Sherry; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Examines the effects of the child's age and the circumstances surrounding the child's aggression, as well as the sex of parent and child, in determining parents' judgments of children's aggressive behavior. Subjects were 160 upper-middle-class parents (80 pairs of mothers and fathers). (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Children
Peer reviewedGuerin, Diana Wright; Gottfried, Allen W. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
The developmental course of 9 temperament dimensions were documented in 104 children from ages 2 through 12. Overall, with the advancement of age, children's temperament showed less developmental change as indexed by mean ratings on the temperament dimensions and greater cross-time stability as assessed by the rank ordering of children across…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Developmental Stages, Emotional Development
Peer reviewedKurdek, Lawrence A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1982
Explores the relationship between fifth- through eighth-grade children's performance on tasks of social cognition and their social competence assessed 4 years later. Significant relations were obtained between (1) earlier peer descriptions and causal attribution scores and (2) later parent ratings of children's social skill problems. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Identification, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedKarraker, Katherine Hildebrandt; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Mothers of 6 cohorts of infants at ages 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months were interviewed to determine their children's responses to potentially stressful daily events. Found older infants and temperamentally more difficult infants experienced more events and reacted with distress to a greater proportion of the events than did younger infants and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Coping, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedPeterson, Lizette; Reaven, Noah – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1984
Reports results of questionnaires and interviews conducted with 123 parents (mostly mothers) of preschool, first-grade, and sixth-grade children. Finds that parental limitations on children's altruism are based on cogent rationales and are a direct function of the situational cost involved and the age and familiarity of the recipient. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Grade 1, Grade 6
