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Quality of Parent-Child Relations in Adolescence and Later Adult Parenting Outcomes
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Friesen, Myron D.; Woodward, Lianne J.; Horwood, L. John; Fergusson, David M. – Social Development, 2013
Data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study, a 30-year prospective longitudinal study, were used to examine the associations between the quality of parent-child relations in adolescence and adult parenting behaviour 15 years later. At ages 14 and 15 years, cohort members were interviewed about the quality of their relationship with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Parenting Styles
Theory of Mind, Self-Worth and the Mother-Child Relationship
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Cahill, Katherine R.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pike, Alison; Hughes, Claire – Social Development, 2007
We tested the hypothesis that mother-child warmth and responsiveness would moderate the link between young children's theory of mind skills and self-worth. Participants included 125 same-sex pairs of 3.5 year-old twins and their mothers. A battery of tests was individually administered to measure the children's theory of mind skills and verbal…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Mothers, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Young Children's Emotional Attachment to Stories.
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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
Parental Control and Affect as Predictors of Children's Display Rule Use and Social Competence with Peers
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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