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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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Dix, Theodore; Cheng, Nina; Day, William H. – Social Development, 2009
When children act to involve mothers in positive interaction, they influence the amount, timing, and content of parent-child exchanges. By assessing children's smiling and positive initiation, we examined child behaviors that function to create positive interaction. In a non-clinical North American sample of 103 mothers and their 14- to…
Descriptors: Cues, Mothers, Interaction, North Americans
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Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Hunter, Erin C. – Social Development, 2007
The current study examined the relations between maternal meta-emotion philosophy and adolescent depressive symptoms, as well as general adolescent adjustment and the quality of parent-child interaction. Consistent with previous findings on children in the preschool period and middle childhood, it was expected that an emotion coaching meta-emotion…
Descriptors: Mothers, Adolescents, Interaction, Depression (Psychology)