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Pathways to Prevention: Improving Nonresident African American Fathers' Parenting Skills and Behaviors to Reduce Sons' Aggression
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Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard; Antonakos, Cathy L.; Assari, Shervin; Kruger, Daniel; De Loney, E. Hill; Njai, Rashid – Child Development, 2014
This study describes a test of the Fathers and Sons Program for increasing intentions to avoid violence and reducing aggressive behaviors in 8-to 12-year-old African American boys by enhancing the parenting skills satisfaction and parenting behaviors of their nonresident fathers. The study included 158 intervention and 129 comparison group…
Descriptors: Fathers, Sons, Males, Parenting Skills
Do Adolescents and Parents Reconstruct Memories about Their Conflict as a Function of Adolescent Attachment?
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Dykas, Matthew J.; Woodhouse, Susan S.; Ehrlich, Katherine B.; Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 2010
This study examined whether 17-year-old adolescents (n = 189) and their parents reconstructed their memory for an adolescent-parent laboratory conflict over a 6-week period as a function of adolescent attachment organization. It also compared participants' perceptions of conflict over time to observational ratings of the conflict to further…
Descriptors: Mothers, Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents
Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Non-Cognitive Skills, Ability and Education. CEE DP 73
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Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2006
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the decline in mobility in the UK between the 1958 NCDS cohort…
Descriptors: Family Income, Persistence, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Similarities in Narrative Style.
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Peterson, Carole; Roberts, Christy – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Examined free recall narratives of younger and older children and their parents independently interviewed about injuries requiring hospital emergency treatment. Found that mothers' narratives were more cohesive and coherent than fathers', and girls' narratives differed from boys' in parallel ways. Parent and child measures were correlated;…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Daughters
Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective
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Beller, Emily; Hout, Michael – Future of Children, 2006
Emily Beller and Michael Hout examine trends in U.S. social mobility, especially as it relates to the degree to which a person's income or occupation depends on his or her parents' background and to the independent contribution of economic growth. They also compare U.S. social mobility with that in other countries. They conclude that…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Socioeconomic Status, Trend Analysis, Family Income
A Comparative Study of Child Temperament and Parenting in Beijing, China and the Western United States
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Porter, Christian L.; Hart, Craig H.; Yang, Chongming; Robinson, Clyde C.; Olsen, Susanne Frost; Zeng, Qing; Olsen, Joseph A.; Jin, Shenghua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
The purpose of this investigation was to examine comparable dimensions and linkages between child temperament and parenting styles with samples from Beijing, China and the western United States. Participants included 404 mothers and fathers from Beijing, China and 325 mothers and fathers from the western United States. Both mothers and fathers…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing