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Rui Li; Zong Meng; Yueqin Hu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Childhood is a critical period for the development of prosocial behavior, and the family serves as a crucial microsystem for fostering prosocial behavior in children. Prior research has indicated that parental monitoring, a specific family factor directly targeting children, can predict children's prosocial behavior. However, the influence of the…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Children, Family Influence, Behavior Development
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Blessing, Patricia – Children Today, 1986
Researchers examine how and why America's children are getting fatter and raise new questions about how to treat childhood obesity. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Body Weight, Children
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Plomin, Robert; DeFries, J. C. – Child Development, 1983
Provides an overview of a longitudinal, prospective, multivariate adoption study of behavioral development and discusses the results of analyses of cognitive measures and environmental assessments as examples of the types of information that can emerge from a design of this sort. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adoption, Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Children
Parke, Ross D., Ed.; Ladd, Gary W., Ed. – 1992
This book surveys new developments in research on family-peer relations and discusses the impact of these developments on current knowledge and future research. The book's 14 chapters are: (1) "Themes and Theories: Perspectives on Processes in Family-Peer Relationships" (G. Ladd); (2) "Family and Peer Relationships in Historical Perspective" (P.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Child Abuse
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Herrenkohl, Ellen C.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
This study assessed physically abused/neglected and nonabused/nonneglected children (n=206) at preschool and elementary school age to identify variables significantly affecting children's behavioral functioning. Behavioral functioning was most strongly differentiated by the sociocultural and family climate in which the child was raised, with…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse
Morrison, Donna Ruane; Glei, Dana – 1993
This study sought to construct a set of family strengths using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - Child Supplement (NLSY-CS), and, if the family strengths' construct was possible, to discern whether the presence of these family strengths predict better outcomes for children. The original NLSY sampled approximately 12,000…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales