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Magda Matetovici; Anouk Spruit; Cristina Colonnesi; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal; Marc Noom – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Acknowledging that the parent-child attachment is a dyadic relationship, we investigated differences between pairs of parents and preschool children based on gender configurations in the association between attachment and problem behavior. We looked at mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dyads, but also compared mothers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Mothers, Daughters
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Bitsika, Vicki; Sharpley, Christopher F. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
The associations between sons' challenging behaviour and mothers' anxiety and depression were investigated in four age-subgroups of boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their mothers (n = 49). Significant correlations were found only for the 6-yr-old boys' irritability and their mothers' anxiety (r = 0.808) and depression (r = 0.762), and for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Hertz, Sarah; Bernier, Annie; Cimon-Paquet, Catherine; Regueiro, Sophie – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aimed to examine the unique and interactive contributions of the quality of mothers' and fathers' relationships with their toddlers to the prediction of children's subsequent executive functioning (EF). The sample included 46 low-risk middle-class families. The quality of mother-child and father-child interactions was assessed…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Executive Function, Fathers, Mothers
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Wahl, Klaus; Metzner, Cornelia – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
The development of aggressiveness between 5 and 17 years and some parental influences on this development were analyzed using data from Germany. International studies have shown a "camel humps" curve, i.e., a peak of aggression of children (primarily boys) between 2 and 4 years and a second peak of antisocial or aggressive behavior of…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Daughters, Parenting Styles
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Chan, Kathy; Penner, Kailee; Mah, Janet W. T.; Johnston, Charlotte – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2010
The use of parenting measures that are developed for use with Western families without testing their validity among families from non-Western cultural backgrounds may not be appropriate. Similar parenting behaviors may affect child outcomes in different ways across different cultures. This study examined the cross-cultural validity of an…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Validity, Child Rearing
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Johnston, Charlotte; Hommersen, Paul; Seipp, Carla M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
The authors examined changes over a 1-year period in mothers' attributions for child behavior and child oppositional behavior among 53 mothers and nonproblem sons and 44 mothers and sons with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Boys averaged 8 years of age (SD = 11 months) at Time 1. Families were primarily of European Canadian…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Rearing