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Bridges, Laura J.; Roe, Amy E. C.; Dunn, Judy; O'Connor, Thomas G. – Social Development, 2007
Following parental separation, children's closeness to grandparents has been reported to be linked to their family situation and differences in adjustment. This relationship has not been investigated longitudinally. This study investigated children's relationships with grandparents over time in different family settings, and associations with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Grandparents, Attitude Measures
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Snyder, James; Stoolmiller, Mike; Wilson, Molloy; Yamamoto, Miles – Social Development, 2003
Examined anger regulation/display in family interaction when children were age 6 and child antisocial behavior longitudinally to age 7. Found that parents' ability to modulate their emotions/negative behavior and children's ability to down-regulate anger related to increased child anger latency. Hazard for child anger increased as parents'…
Descriptors: Anger, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Children
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Kerns, Kathryn A.; Tomich, Patricia L.; Kim, Patricia – Social Development, 2006
Two studies addressed the normative aspects of attachments to mothers and fathers in middle childhood. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons, we tested the hypothesis that children show no changes in perceptions of availability of attachment figures across the later middle childhood years, but do utilize attachment figures less…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Adjustment, Elementary School Students, Parent Child Relationship
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Dhami, Mandeep K.; Hoglund, Wendy L.; Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Boone, Erin M. – Social Development, 2005
In a short-term longitudinal study of 432 first-grade children, we examined whether gender interacted with contextual differences (school-level poverty) and individual differences at school entry (behavioral problems, emotional problems, and social competence) to predict changes in peer physical and relational victimization and receipt of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Individual Differences, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
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Fine, Sarah E.; Izard, Carroll E.; Trentacosta, Christopher J. – Social Development, 2006
We examined individual differences in developmental trajectories of emotion situation knowledge (ESK), at three time points throughout elementary school in a sample of children from economically disadvantaged families. Results showed that ESK and the subscales of joy, fear, anger, shame and interest exhibited positive growth from the first to the…
Descriptors: Cues, Economically Disadvantaged, Individual Differences, Verbal Ability
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Miller, Alison L.; Gouley, Kathleen Kiely; Seifer, Ronald; Zakriski, Audrey; Eguia, Maria; Vergnani, Michael – Social Development, 2005
This short-term longitudinal study examined relations between emotion knowledge and social functioning in a sample of low-income kindergarten and 1st graders. Individual differences in spontaneous emotion naming and emotion recognition skills were used to predict children's social functioning at school, including peer-nominated sociometric status,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Status, Low Income, Sociometric Techniques