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Love Shouldn't Hurt: What Do African American Maternal Caregivers Tell Their Daughters About Dating Violence?
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Corona, Rosalie; Gomes, Melissa M.; Pope, Michell; Shaffer, Carla; Yaros, Anna – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
The healthy messages parents convey to their adolescents about risk behaviors may be related to better adolescent outcomes. Few studies have examined the types of messages or strategies caregivers use to discuss dating violence with their early adolescents. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 African American maternal caregivers of…
Descriptors: African Americans, Mothers, Daughters, Dating (Social)
Popular Media Representations of Physical Activity among Mothers
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Sanders, Margaret P.; Dlugonski, Deirdre – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Purpose: Many mothers fail to meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity. Popular media magazines targeting mothers provide information about physical activity and health, but little is known about the framing and content of physical activity messages within these sources. The aim of this content analysis was to analyze the framing and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Content Analysis
"Mother" in Aytül Akal's Stories within the Context of Social Gender Perception
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Yilmaz, Oguzhan; Yakar, Yasin Mahmut – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Just as many factors are of question in one's identity, so is the way to present the characters in literary books. Presentation of characters on equality basis is very important so that democratic culture and human rights related values are acquired. In this study, mother image fictionalized by Aytul Akal in her stories of children is dealt with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fiction, Children, Social Influences
Mentalizing Abilities in Preadolescents' and Their Mothers' Autobiographical Narratives
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Scopesi, Alda M.; Rosso, Anna Maria; Viterbori, Paola; Panchieri, Erika – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
This study aims to investigate the association between the mental state talk of mothers and their preadolescent children, with the hypothesis that an intergenerational transmission of mentalizing abilities may extend beyond early childhood. The participants were 41 mother-preadolescent child nonclinical dyads. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preadolescents, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship
Where Are "Their" Voices? Examining Power and Privilege in a Family Literacy Text
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Kumar, Tracey – School Community Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine how a family literacy text linked to a large-scale, U.S.-based family literacy program either privileged or disprivileged dominant, Eurocentric literacy practices. More specifically, this study investigated the ways in which the family literacy text: (1) conceptualized literacy; and (2) constructed the role…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Social Influences, Mothers, Parent Role
Narrative as a Window to the Inner Mental World of Young Children: Attachment Representations, Affect and Memory
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Priddis, Lynn E.; Howieson, Noel D. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
This article describes a procedure which has proven useful in facilitating narratives about experience of everyday family situations in order to provide insights into the inner world of children around five-seven years. The Windows to Attachment in Young Children (WAYC) consists of the procedure itself and scoring frameworks through which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Memory, Interpersonal Communication