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Bryan, Amy E.; Dix, Theodore – Social Development, 2009
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14-27 month-old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three…
Descriptors: Mothers, Childhood Interests, Personality Traits, Parent Child Relationship
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Karrass, Jan; Walden, Tedra A. – Social Development, 2005
This study examined the effects of one unfamiliar adult's warm, responsive interactions or cold, aloof, unresponsive interactions on child emotion and subsequent social initiatives to a second adult. Participants were 32 4 1/2- to 5 1/2-year-old preschool children. Nurturing, responsive caregiving and non-nurturing, unresponsive caregiving were…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Preschool Children, Caregiver Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns
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Alexander, Kristin J.; Miller, Peggy J.; Hengst, Julie A. – Social Development, 2001
Interviewed 32 families concerning their narrative practices, basic information about the children's story attachments, and the mothers' beliefs and practices concerning their children's attachments. Found that story attachments were social in two ways: Children created relationships with story characters, and formed story attachments with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Diaries
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Social Development, 2005
Seventy-six fourth-grade children and their parents participated in a study of the linkages among parental control and positive affect, children's display rule use, and children's social competence with peers. Using observational measures of parental behavior and children's display rule use, it was found that parental positive affect and control…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence