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Wouters, Sofie; Doumen, Sarah; Germeijs, Veerle; Colpin, Hilde; Verschueren, Karine – Social Development, 2013
Contingent self-esteem (i.e., the degree to which one's self-esteem is dependent on meeting particular conditions) has been shown to predict a wide range of psychosocial and academic problems. This study extends previous research on contingent self-esteem by examining the predictive role of perceived parenting dimensions in a sample of early…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Early Adolescents, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
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Cook, Emily C.; Buehler, Cheryl; Fletcher, Anne C. – Social Development, 2012
This study examined the prospective relationship between negative parenting behaviors and adolescents' friendship competence in a community sample of 416 two-parent families in the Southeastern USA. Adolescents' externalizing problems and their emotional insecurity with parents were examined as mediators. Parents' psychological control was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Friendship
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Lysenko, Laura J.; Barker, Edward D.; Jaffee, Sara R. – Social Development, 2013
Research on sex differences in antisocial behaviour may shed light on the causes of childhood antisocial behaviour. Using a longitudinal design, we tested whether there were sex differences in the amount of harsh discipline children received or in the effect of harsh discipline and whether this accounted for sex differences in later conduct…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Discipline
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Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Cairns, Ed; Merrilees, Christine E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark – Social Development, 2013
This study explores the associations between mothers' religiosity, and families' and children's functioning in a stratified random sample of 695 Catholic and Protestant mother-child dyads in socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a region which has experienced centuries of sectarian conflict between Protestant Unionists and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Religion, Religious Factors, Correlation
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von Suchodoletz, Antje; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Heikamp, Tobias – Social Development, 2011
The present study demonstrated that a more differentiated view of positive parenting practices is necessary in the study of children's acquisition of self-regulation. Here, the unique contributions of maternal warmth and responsiveness to distress to children's self-regulation were tested in a sample of 102 German mothers and their kindergarten…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Kindergarten
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Mills, Rosemary S. L.; Hastings, Paul D.; Helm, Jonathan; Serbin, Lisa A.; Etezadi, Jamshid; Stack, Dale M.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Li, Hai Hong – Social Development, 2012
This study evaluated a comprehensive model of factors associated with internalizing problems (IP) in early childhood, hypothesizing direct, mediated, and moderated pathways linking child temperamental inhibition, maternal overcontrol and rejection, and contextual stressors to IP. In a novel approach, three samples were integrated to form a large…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles, Inhibition, Risk
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Engle, Jennifer M.; McElwain, Nancy L. – Social Development, 2011
Parent-reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short-term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Parent Child Relationship
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Kiesner, Jeff; Dishion, Thomas J.; Poulin, Francois; Pastore, Massimiliano – Social Development, 2009
This longitudinal study examined the covariation between parents' use of control and solicitation, youth willingness to self-disclose to parents, and youth antisocial behavior from ages 13 to 14. Structural equation analyses were conducted on a combined sample of Italian (N = 152) and French Canadian (N = 151) adolescents. Analyses tested for…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, French Canadians, Early Adolescents, Adolescents
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Padilla-Walker, Laura M. – Social Development, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to examine adolescents' perceptions of mother-child interactions as correlates of adolescents' positive, negative, and guilt emotions. Two hundred thirty-four adolescents (M age = 16.39, SD = 1.17) completed measures assessing parenting practices in response to typical mother-child interactions in both positive…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Assadi, Seyed Mohammad; Zokaei, Nayereh; Kaviani, Hossein; Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza; Ghaeli, Padideh; Gohari, Mahmood Reza; Van De Vijver, Fons J. R. – Social Development, 2007
School grades, family demographics and responses to the parental authority questionnaire were assessed in 240 eighth-grade students in the southern, central and northern parts of Tehran, Iran's capital. The result showed that poorer families with traditional values had more authoritarian attitudes toward parenting than richer families with more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries
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Kowal, Amanda K.; Krull, Jennifer L.; Kramer, Laurie – Social Development, 2006
This study examined the extent to which children and parents have concordant views about parental differential treatment (PDT) and whether such concordance is linked with variations in sibling relationship quality. Seventy-four 11- to 13-year-old children, their older siblings, and their parents were interviewed about their experiences with PDT…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Parent Child Relationship
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Jackson, Lynne M.; Pratt, Michael W.; Hunsberger, Bruce; Pancer, S. Mark – Social Development, 2005
Authoritative parenting has been associated with positive outcomes for children and adolescents, but less is known about the mechanisms responsible for such effects. Two longitudinal studies examined the hypothesis that the relation between authoritative parenting and adolescents' adjustment is mediated by adolescents' level of dispositional…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Child Rearing, Young Adults, Adolescents
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Strayer, Janet; Roberts, William – Social Development, 2004
In Roberts and Strayer (1996) we described how emotional factors were strongly related to children's empathy, which in turn strongly predicted prosocial behavior. This paper focuses on how these child emotional factors, assessed across methods and sources, related to parental factors (empathy, emotional expressiveness, encouragement of children's…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Emotional Response, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Fine, Sarah E.; Trentacosta, Christopher J.; Izard, Carroll E.; Mostow, Allison J.; Campbell, Jan L. – Social Development, 2004
We analyzed the relations between teacher reports of aggressive behaviors, caregiver reports of their use of physical discipline, anger perception accuracy, and anger perception bias in middle childhood and teacher reports of aggressive behaviors two years later in a sample of children from economically disadvantaged families (n = 152). Fisher…
Descriptors: Discipline, Aggression, Economically Disadvantaged, Caregivers
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Costa, Natalie M.; Weems, Carl F. – Social Development, 2005
This study tested a model of the association between maternal and child anxiety that views mother and child attachment beliefs and children's perceptions of maternal control as mediators of the association. The study was conducted with mothers and their children aged 6 to 17 (N = 88). Maternal anxiety was significantly associated with child…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Anxiety, Mothers, Parent Influence
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