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Song, Qingfang; Wang, Qi – Social Development, 2013
This study examined mother-child reminiscing about children's experiences with peers and its relation to children's peer-related self-views and social competence. Sixty-three mothers and their preschool-aged children discussed at home two specific past events involving the child and his or her peers, one event being positive and one negative. The…
Descriptors: Mothers, Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children
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Matte-Gagne, Celia; Bernier, Annie; Gagne, Christine – Social Development, 2013
The goals of this article were to examine (1) the relative and absolute stability of maternal autonomy support between infancy and preschool age, and (2) the moderating role of child gender, maternal attachment state of mind, and stressful life events. Sixty-nine mother-child dyads participated in five visits when the child was 8, 15, and 18…
Descriptors: Mothers, Personal Autonomy, Infants, Preschool Education
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Yamada, Hiroyuki – Social Development, 2009
Ninety-five Japanese children (aged 6-12) were interviewed using hypothetical stories to examine their reasoning about parent-child conflicts. Participants were most likely to reject parental authority and to support child's discretion in conflict situations where the parent interfered in the child's personal choice and gave the child commands…
Descriptors: Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Age Differences, Values
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Chan, Alessandra; Poulin, Francois – Social Development, 2009
This study examined (1) the relation between perceived friendship instability and depressive symptoms, (2) the directionality of this link, and (3) whether the relation between friendship instability and depressive symptoms would differ according to specific friendship status (best and secondary friendships) and contexts (school, non-school, and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Depression (Psychology), Social Networks
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Daddis, Christopher – Social Development, 2008
Similarity in close friends' beliefs about personal jurisdiction was examined using questionnaires and interviews with 162 early (M[subscript age] = 11.82) and middle (M[subscript age] = 15.68) adolescents who were matched with reciprocally nominated close friends. Using the framework of social domain theory, beliefs about personal jurisdiction…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Beliefs, Adolescent Attitudes
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Hand, Laura Shaffer; Furman, Wyndol – Social Development, 2009
This study used a social exchange framework to examine the features of non-romantic other-sex (OS) friendships compared with same-sex (SS) friendships and romantic relationships. High school seniors (N = 141) completed open-ended interviews about the benefits and costs of having OS friendships, SS friendships, and romantic relationships in…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Perspective Taking, Friendship, Questionnaires
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Shipman, Kimberly L.; Schneider, Renee; Fitzgerald, Monica M.; Sims, Chandler; Swisher, Lisa; Edwards, Anna – Social Development, 2007
This study investigated the socialization of children's emotion regulation in physically maltreating and non-maltreating mother-child dyads (N = 80 dyads). Mother-child dyads participated in the parent-child emotion interaction task (Shipman & Zeman, 1999) in which they talked about emotionally-arousing situations. The PCEIT was coded for maternal…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Abuse, Mothers, Psychological Patterns
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Dunsmore, Julie C.; Halberstadt, Amy G.; Eaton, Kimberly L.; Robinson, Megan L. – Social Development, 2005
Mothers (N = 67) taught their preschool children crafts while varying emotional expressions (delight, irritation). Mothers' typical expressive styles were assessed by questionnaire. After three weeks, children's memory was assessed with a free-recall interview followed by re-enactment of craft-making with an interviewer. Children of mothers high…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Memory
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Cho, Grace E.; Sandel, Todd L.; Miller, Peggy J.; Wang, Su-hua – Social Development, 2005
The study investigates European American and Taiwanese grandmothers' folk theories of childrearing and self-esteem, building on an earlier comparison of mothers from the same families. Adopting methods that privilege local meanings, we bring grandmothers' voices into the conversation about childrearing, thereby contributing to a deeper…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Parent Child Relationship, Grandparents