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Pathways to Problem Behaviors: Chaotic Homes, Parent and Child Effortful Control, and Parenting
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Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Reiser, Mark – Social Development, 2007
Guided by Belsky's and Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad's heuristic models, we tested a process model with hypothesized paths from parents' effortful control (EC) and family chaos to indices of parenting to children's EC, and finally children's externalizing problem behavior. Parents reported on all constructs and children (N = 188; M age = 9.55…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Heuristics
Teacher-Child Relationships from Kindergarten to Sixth Grade: Early Childhood Predictors of Teacher-Perceived Conflict and Closeness
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Jerome, Elisabeth M.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Pianta, Robert C. – Social Development, 2009
This article examined general trends in teacher-reported conflict and closeness among 878 children from kindergarten through sixth grade, and examined early childhood characteristics that predict differences in initial levels and growth of conflict and closeness over time. Results indicated modest stability of teacher-perceived conflict and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Academic Achievement, Children, White Students
Parental Emotion Coaching and Dismissing in Family Interaction
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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Shields, Ann M.; Cortina, Kai S. – Social Development, 2007
We observed the positive emotion socialization practice of parental emotion coaching (EC) and the negative socialization practice of emotion dismissing (ED) during a family interaction task and examined their effects on children's emotion regulation and behavior problems in middle childhood. Participants were 87 sociodemographically diverse…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Socialization, Risk, Parent Child Relationship
Domestic Violence, Emotional Competence, and Child Adjustment
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Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Hessler, Danielle M.; Annest, Amalia – Social Development, 2007
This article examined emotion competence in children exposed to domestic violence (DV). It also examined the hypothesis that children's emotional competence mediates relations between DV and children's later difficulties with peers and behavioral adjustment. DV was assessed when children were at the age of five, emotional competence was assessed…
Descriptors: Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Family Violence
Self-Perceived Social Acceptance and Peer Social Standing in Children with Aggressive-Disruptive Behaviors
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Pardini, Dustin A.; Barry, Tammy D.; Barth, Joan M.; Lochman, John E.; Wells, Karen C. – Social Development, 2006
Examining children's perceptions of their social acceptance in conjunction with others' ratings of their peer social standing can enhance our understanding of the heterogeneity in children exhibiting disruptive behavior problems. Using a sample of 213 youth rated in the top 31 percent of their class on aggressive-disruptive behaviors, the current…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior, Hyperactivity, Peer Acceptance
Boys' Maladaptive Social Information Processing, Family Emotional Climate, and Pathways to Early Conduct Problems.
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Schultz, David; Shaw, Daniel S. – Social Development, 2003
Examined relations between early family risk and later maladaptive social information processing and conduct problems among 178 economically disadvantaged boys. Found that early childhood assessments of disadvantage and maternal depression predicted boys' maladaptive response generation and conduct problems at age 10, accounting for 6 and 14…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Children, Depression (Psychology)
Extremely Premature and Very Low Birthweight Infants: A Double Hazard Population?
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Nadeau, Line; Tessier, Rejean; Boivin, Michel; Lefebvre, Francine; Robaey, Philippe – Social Development, 2003
Evaluated contributions of birth status (gestational age and birthweight) and family adversity at birth and at age 7 to explain behavior problems at age 7. Found significant relationships between birth status and isolation, social withdrawal problems, social immaturity, and inattention. Family adversity at birth contributed to aggression reported…
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Attention Control, Behavior Problems