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Peer reviewedDenham, Susanne A.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Examined mother-child interaction in play and teaching tasks. Mother-child interaction aggregates represented task orientation, positive emotion, and allowance of autonomy. Maternal interaction aggregates predicted teachers' ratings of children's positive social behavior, assertiveness, and sadness in the preschool setting. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Assertiveness, Interpersonal Competence, Mothers
Peer reviewedCrockenberg, Susan; Litman, Cindy – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Mothers and children were observed in laboratory and home settings in a study of the relationship between maternal control strategies and child behavior. Child compliance and self-assertion were associated with less powerful control methods; defiance with power-assertive methods. A combined control-guidance strategy elicited greatest compliance…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Child Rearing, Compliance (Psychology), Field Studies
Khemka, Ishita – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2000
The effectiveness of two decision-making training approaches in increasing independent decision-making skills of 36 women with mild mental retardation responding to hypothetical social interpersonal situations involving abuse was evaluated. The approaches addressed either cognitive and emotional aspects or only cognitive aspects of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Battered Women, Decision Making, Females
