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Botdorf, Morgan; Riggins, Tracy; Dougherty, Lea R. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Research has indicated age-related improvements in relational binding, an important process of episodic memory, across development. However, little research has focused on individual differences in relational binding and factors contributing to this variation. Although differences may arise from various sources, early caregiving has been shown to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Age Differences
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Dahl, Audun; Campos, Joseph J. – Child Development, 2013
Different social experiences help children develop distinctions between domains of norms. This study investigated whether mothers respond differently to moral, prudential, and pragmatic norms during the 2nd year, a period that precedes the time when children are able to make explicit distinctions between these norms. Sixty mothers of infants…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Social Experience, Norms, Mothers
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Kavcic, Tina; Podlesek, Anja; Zupancic, Maja – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
This study explored children, preschool, and family characteristics that contribute to individual differences in the developmental trajectories of social competence and internalizing and externalizing behavior. Teachers reported on personality and social adjustment of 304 children at ages 3, 4, 5, and 6 years. Predictors of social adjustment…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Parenting Styles, Personality, Social Adjustment
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Kim, Min-Hee; Moon, Hyukjun – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
In a child day-care setting, the naturally occurring social-emotional behaviours and play interaction of 51 infants were observed and recorded. Individual differences in gender, age, temperament, and maternal parenting behaviours were examined to understand how these variables might be related to social-emotional adjustment of infants. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Play, Child Rearing, Infants
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DeGarmo, David Scott – Child Development, 2010
To better understand quantity and quality of divorced father contact, a weighted county sample of 230 divorced fathers with a child aged 4-11 years was employed to test whether fathers' antisocial personality (ASP) moderated effects of monthly contact with children in predicting children's observed noncompliance. Eighteen-month latent growth…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Personality, Fathers
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Kuhn, Emily S.; Laird, Robert D. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Adolescents differ in the extent to which they believe that parents have legitimate authority to impose rules restricting adolescents' behavior. The purpose of the current study was to test predictors of individual differences in legitimacy beliefs during the middle school years. Annually, during the summers following Grades 5, 6, and 7, early…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Early Adolescents, Decision Making, Parent Child Relationship
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Mills, Rosemary S. L.; Arbeau, Kimberley A.; Lall, Debra I. K.; De Jaeger, Amy E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
We examined individual differences in shame responding in early childhood and predictive relations with shame proneness in middle childhood. Child shame responding, parental shaming, and child temperamental inhibition were assessed at Time 1 (n = 225, aged 3-4 years), shame responding was reassessed at Time 2 (n = 199, aged 5-7 years), and shame…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Inhibition, Parent Child Relationship
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Scourfield, Jane; John, Bethan; Martin, Neilson; McGuffin, Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Childhood psychopathology is associated with both high and low levels of prosocial behaviour. It has been proposed that the development of prosocial behaviour shows emerging and consolidating individual differences as children grow older. The influences on these individual differences have not previously been examined in children and…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Genetics, Parents
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Hastings, Paul D.; Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn; Robinson, JoAnn; Usher, Barbara; Bridges, Dana – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Examined development of concern and externalizing problems in children at three behavior problem levels. Found no group differences in concern at 4-5 years. Concern in children with clinical behavior problems decreased by 6-7 years. Greater concern at 4-5 or at 6-7 years predicted decreased stability and severity of externalizing problems by 6-7…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Zupancic, Maja; Kavcic, Tina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Three blocks of factors were considered as predictors of four year old children's (N = 286) personality, non-verbal intelligence and social behaviour in preschool: (a) personality characteristics at time 1 (T1) when the participants were three years old; (b) parental education and parenting practices measured at T1; and (c) age of child's entry to…
Descriptors: Personality, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence, Intelligence
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Tamrouti-Makkink, Ilse D.; Dubas, Judith Semon; Gerris, Jan R. M.; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: The present study extends existing studies on the role of differential parental treatment in explaining individual differences in adolescent problem behaviors above the absolute level of parenting and clarifies the function of gender of the child, birth rank and gender constellation of the sibling dyads. Method: The absolute level of…
Descriptors: Siblings, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Adolescents