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Aditi Bhutoria; Nayyaf Aljabri; Saheli Bose – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2025
This paper examines whether parental engagement in early childhood and preschooling act as substitutes, or whether their joint effect enhances students' learning outcomes. We utilize the TIMSS 2019 dataset and employ a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) approach to analyze data from 52 countries, ensuring a robust examination of cross-national…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parenting Skills, Child Rearing, Preschool Children
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Laurent, Heidemarie K.; Duncan, Larissa G.; Lightcap, April; Khan, Faaiza – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Mindfulness in the parenting relationship has been proposed to help both parents and children better regulate stress, though this has not yet been shown at the physiological level. In this study, we tested relations between maternal mindfulness in parenting and both mothers' and their infants' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Infants, Metabolism
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Aunola, Kaisa; Viljaranta, Jaana; Tolvanen, Asko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether parental daily distress in terms of negative emotions is associated with the daily variation in parental use of psychological control with their children. Whether parental positive emotions play a role in the use of psychological control was also investigated. The participants were 149…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Psychological Patterns, Parenting Styles
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Harewood, Tamesha; Vallotton, Claire D.; Brophy-Herb, Holly – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Despite numerous studies on parenting stress suggesting negative influences on parent-child interactions and children's development, the majority of these studies focus on mothers' parenting stress with little or no acknowledgement of fathers. Using data from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, this study examined (1)…
Descriptors: Fathers, Child Rearing, Anxiety, Child Language
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Zuberi, Anita – Youth & Society, 2016
The present study examines the relationship between neighborhood quality and parental monitoring of youth aged 10 to 18 (N = 1,630) from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Multiple measures of the neighborhood, including parents' perceptions of quality, structure (i.e., poverty and affluence), and social…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Social Influences
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Neyen, Julia; Volpe, Carolyn Ann; Selby, Edwin C.; Houtz, John C. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
Two independent studies were conducted to examine the relationship of problem solving styles to parenting styles. Both studies used VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style and the Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ). Study 1 included 173 adults recruited using Mechanical Turk and Study 2 included 131 adults recruited using Qualtrics. Data…
Descriptors: Correlation, Problem Solving, Parenting Styles, Questionnaires
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Álvarez, Míriam; Rodrigo, María José; Byrne, Sonia – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Objectives: To examine the components affecting the quality of the implementation and their impact on the outcomes of the "Growing Up Happily in the Family" program targeted at parents with children aged 0-5. Method: At-risk and non-at-risk parents (N = 196) participated in 26 groups in local social services. Adherence, adaptations,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Child Welfare, Program Effectiveness, Family Programs
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Green, Shulamite A.; Carter, Alice S. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Self-sufficiency is central to child and family well-being. This report focuses on predictors of adaptive daily living skills (DLS) development in young children with ASD and whether DLS gains predict decreases in parenting stress. Participants were 162 toddlers with ASD and their parents, assessed at 3 annual timepoints. Hierarchical Linear…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Daily Living Skills, Toddlers
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Pruitt, Megan M.; Willis, Kelcie; Timmons, Lisa; Ekas, Naomi V. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
This study utilized a daily diaries method to explore the global factors that impact daily general affect and daily parenting interactions of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Eighty-three mothers of a child with autism spectrum disorder between the ages of 3 and 13 years completed global assessments of maternal depressive…
Descriptors: Diaries, Mothers, Children, Autism
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Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Phan, Jenny M.; Lubach, Gabriele R.; Crispen, Heather R.; Coe, Christopher L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The concept of fetal programming is based on the idea that the developmental trajectory of infants is adjusted in response to in utero conditions. In species with extended parental care, these prenatally derived tendencies are further substantiated by behavioral attributes of the mother during the postnatal period. We investigated the stability of…
Descriptors: Siblings, Animals, Pregnancy, Prenatal Influences
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Lee, Gang; Kim, Yanghee – Journal of International Education Research, 2016
To identify ways that national culture, school characteristics, and individual attributes impact the victimization of students in Grade 8, data from the United States and three East Asian countries (i.e., Japan, S. Korea, and Taiwan) were compared using the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Hierarchical Liner…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
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Lysenko, Laura J.; Barker, Edward D.; Jaffee, Sara R. – Social Development, 2013
Research on sex differences in antisocial behaviour may shed light on the causes of childhood antisocial behaviour. Using a longitudinal design, we tested whether there were sex differences in the amount of harsh discipline children received or in the effect of harsh discipline and whether this accounted for sex differences in later conduct…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Discipline
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Farr, Rachel H.; Patterson, Charlotte J. – Child Development, 2013
Coparenting is associated with child behavior in families with heterosexual parents, but less is known about coparenting among lesbian- and gay-parent families. Associations were studied among self-reported divisions of labor, coparenting observations, and child adjustment ("M[subscript age]" = 3 years) among 104 adoptive families headed…
Descriptors: Adoption, Homosexuality, Child Rearing, Correlation
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Offer, Shira – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
The literature is divided on the issue of what matters for adolescents' well-being, with one approach focusing on quality and the other on routine family time. Using the experience sampling method, a unique form of time diary, and survey data drawn from the 500 Family Study ("N" = 237 adolescents with 8,122 observations), this study examined the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Emotional Development, Family Relationship, Observation
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