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Does It Matter if Preschool Children and Mothers Discuss Positive vs. Negative Events during Reminiscing? Links with Mother-Reported Attachment, Family Emotional Climate, and Socioemotional Development
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Laible, Deborah – Social Development, 2011
The purpose of the study was to examine the differential relations between mother-child reminiscing about a positive emotional event vs. a negative emotional event and attachment security, family climate, and young children's socioemotional development. Fifty preschool children (M age = 50.69 months, SD = 4.64) and their mothers completed two…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
Marital Conflict in the Context of Parental Depressive Symptoms: Implications for the Development of Children's Adjustment Problems
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Keller, Peggy S.; Cummings, E. Mark; Peterson, Kristina M.; Davies, Patrick T. – Social Development, 2009
Relations among parental depressive symptoms, overt and covert marital conflict, and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms were examined in a community sample of 235 couples and their children. Families were assessed once yearly for three years, starting when children were in kindergarten. Parents completed measures of depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Conflict, Depression (Psychology), Fathers, Mothers
Respect-Based Control and Anger as Determinants of Children's Socio-Emotional Development
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Awong, Tsasha; Grusec, Joan E.; Sorenson, Ann – Social Development, 2008
Shortly after the birth of their infants, teenage working-class mothers were assessed on attitudes toward the need for deference to family authority (respect-based control) and anger. Their children's internalizing and externalizing problems and self-esteem were assessed approximately 12 years later. High respect-based control was linked to higher…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Family Environment, Emotional Development
Parental Emotion Coaching and Dismissing in Family Interaction
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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Shields, Ann M.; Cortina, Kai S. – Social Development, 2007
We observed the positive emotion socialization practice of parental emotion coaching (EC) and the negative socialization practice of emotion dismissing (ED) during a family interaction task and examined their effects on children's emotion regulation and behavior problems in middle childhood. Participants were 87 sociodemographically diverse…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Socialization, Risk, Parent Child Relationship
Across Time and beyond Skin: Self and Transgression in the Everyday Socialization of Shame among Taiwanese Preschool Children.
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Fung, Heidi; Chen, Eva Chian-Hui – Social Development, 2001
Examined spontaneous daily family interactions in Taiwan for events of children's shame. Found that shame events occur in multiple episodes of the child's transgression and, in half the cases, some authority was evoked to judge the child's behavior but family members were always present and ready to share the child's transgression and shame.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Childhood Attitudes, Family Attitudes
Extremely Premature and Very Low Birthweight Infants: A Double Hazard Population?
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Nadeau, Line; Tessier, Rejean; Boivin, Michel; Lefebvre, Francine; Robaey, Philippe – Social Development, 2003
Evaluated contributions of birth status (gestational age and birthweight) and family adversity at birth and at age 7 to explain behavior problems at age 7. Found significant relationships between birth status and isolation, social withdrawal problems, social immaturity, and inattention. Family adversity at birth contributed to aggression reported…
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Attention Control, Behavior Problems