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Camacho-Thompson, Daisy E.; Gonzales, Nancy A.; Tein, Jenn-Yun – School Psychology, 2019
Parental academic involvement is critical in promoting children's long-term academic success and may be especially impactful during middle school. However, longitudinal research is lacking for Mexican-origin youth and has focused mostly on mothers. Mexican-origin mothers and fathers reported their academic involvement during seventh grade, and we…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Mexican Americans
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ter Bogt, Tom F. M.; Delsing, Marc J. M. H.; van Zalk, Maarten; Christenson, Peter G.; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Social Forces, 2011
In this article, the continuity in music taste from parents to their children is discussed via a multi-actor design. In our models music preferences of 325 adolescents and both their parents were linked, with parental and adolescent educational level as covariates. Parents' preferences for different types of music that had been popular when they…
Descriptors: Music Education, Rock Music, Daughters, Parents
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Miklikowska, Marta; Duriez, Bart; Soenens, Bart – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Theories on empathy development have stressed the role of socialization in general and the role of parental support in particular. This 3-wave longitudinal study of middle adolescents (N = 678) aimed to contribute to the extant research on the socialization of empathy (a) by examining the relative contribution of perceived maternal and paternal…
Descriptors: Socialization, Daughters, Child Rearing, Perspective Taking
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Bogenschneider, Karen; Pallock, Linda – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
This paper examines conditional and reporter effects of parental responsiveness using survey data from White 8th to 12th graders (N = 440) and their parents (N = 511). Adolescent reports of maternal and paternal responsiveness predicted higher GPAs, fewer delinquent behaviors, and less internal distress. Mothers' and fathers' reports of…
Descriptors: Influences, Sons, Mothers, Daughters
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Friedman, Alfred S.; Ali, Asad; McMurphy, Suzanne – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1998
Illegal behavior, drug trafficking, and substance abuse levels of two groups (both parents, mother only) of inner-city African-American youth were compared. African-American subjects who had been raised in mother-only households reported significantly fewer illegal offenses. Findings are contrary to common attitudes regarding the effects of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Family, Blacks, Crime
Block, Jack; Gjerde, Per F. – 1985
This paper examines the conceptual and empirical relationships differentially associated with antisocial behavior and undercontrol, two concepts that frequently are confused. The personality characteristics conceptually associated with antisocial behavior were specified by seven psychologists using the California Child Q-sort (CCQ) to describe…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Child Rearing, Children
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Tenenbaum, Harriet R.; Leaper, Campbell – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Investigated the family as a context for gender typing of adolescent science achievement. Findings indicated no child gender or grade-level differences in science-related grades, self-efficacy, or interest. However, parents were more likely to believe that science was less interesting and more difficult for daughters than sons. Parents' beliefs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Daughters