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Direct linkMadelon M. E. Riem; Fred Hasselman; Constantina Psyllou; Anne-Laura van Harmelen; Anna Pearce; Helen Minnis; Paul Lodder; Maaike Cima – Developmental Science, 2025
This study examined whether grandparental support is a protective factor for children's socio-emotional development in the context of adversity. Using longitudinal data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we investigated the effects of grandparental support across development in children with and without adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Role, Child Development, Social Development
Lin, Xunyi; Liao, Yutong; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The impact of the newly launched "two-child policy" on young children's social development has not been empirically studied. This study examined the possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between parenting styles and social competence in Chinese preschoolers. A sample of only children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Family Size, Social Development
Haapsamo, Helena; Pollock-Wurman, Rachel A.; Kuusikko-Gauffin, Sanna; Ebeling, Hanna; Larinen, Katja; Soini, Hannu; Moilanen, Irma – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
The relationship between maternal parenting stress and infant/toddler behavioural development was examined in a longitudinal pilot study. Fifty mothers reported parenting stress via the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form when their infants were eight months old. Parents subsequently rated their children's emotional and behavioural problems with the…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Mothers, Young Children
Parcel, Toby L.; Campbell, Lori Ann; Zhong, Wenxuan – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2012
We analyze the effects of family capital on child behavior problems in the United States and Great Britain by comparing a longitudinal survey sample of 5- to 13-year-old children from the 1994 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3,864) with a similar sample of children from the 1991 National Child Development Study "British Child"…
Descriptors: Evidence, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Ryan, Rebecca M.; Claessens, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Most children in the U.S. today will experience one or more changes in family structure. The present study explores the implications of this trend for child development by investigating the conditions under which family structure changes matter most to child well-being. Using data from the Maternal and Child Supplement of the National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Family Structure, Family Characteristics
Coley, Rebekah Levine; Carrano, Jennifer; Lewin-Bizan, Selva – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
Building upon previous evidence for the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behaviors, this research assessed and compared three models seeking to explain links between fathers' antisocial behaviors and children's behavior problems. A representative sample of children from low-income families (N = 261) was followed from age 3 through age…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, At Risk Persons, Fathers, Low Income Groups
Miller, Daniel P.; Waldfogel, Jane; Han, Wen-Jui – Child Development, 2012
This study investigates the link between the frequency of family breakfasts and dinners and child academic and behavioral outcomes in a panel sample of 21,400 children aged 5-15. It complements previous work by examining younger and older children separately and by using information on a large number of controls and rigorous analytic methods to…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Academic Achievement, Nutrition, Eating Habits
Gibson-Davis, Christina M.; Gassman-Pines, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 2010
With data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 6,449), a nationally representative sample of births in 2001, we used hierarchical linear modeling to analyze differences in observed interactions between married, cohabiting, never-married, and divorced mothers and their children. In contrast to previous studies, we…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mothers, Young Children, Family Structure
Hall, Wendy A.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Silburn, Sven R.; Parsons, Deborah E.; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Behavioural sleep problems (childhood insomnias) can cause distress for both parents and children. This paper reports a model describing predictors of high sleep problem scores in a representative population-based random sample survey of non-Aboriginal singleton children born in 1995 and 1996 (1085 girls and 1129 boys) in Western Australia.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
Simons, Leslie Gordon; Chen, Yi-Fu; Simons, Ronald L.; Brody, Gene; Cutrona, Carolyn – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This article uses a sample of 867 African American households to investigate differences in parenting practices and child outcomes by type of household. Results indicate that mothers provide similar levels of parenting regardless of family structure. Secondary caregivers, however, show a great deal of variation in quality of parenting. Fathers and…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Rearing, Behavior Problems, Parenting Styles
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Jekielek, Susan M.; Emig, Carol – 2002
Policies and proposals to promote marriage have been in the public eye for several years, driven by concern over the large percentages of U.S. children growing up with only one parent. This brief reviews the research evidence on the effects of family structure on children, as well as key trends in family structure over the last few decades. The…
Descriptors: Births to Single Women, Child Behavior, Child Development, Children
Peer reviewedBlack, Maureen M.; Dubowitz, Howard; Starr, Raymond H., Jr. – Child Development, 1999
Examined relationship between paternal roles and 3-year olds' well-being in low income, African-American families. Found that children's cognition, receptive language, behavior, and home environment were not related to father presence. Controlled for maternal age, education, and parenting satisfaction; found that paternal roles related to indices…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Child Behavior, Child Development
