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Longitudinal Relations among Parents' Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions, Effortful Control, and Math Achievement in Early Elementary School
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Swanson, Jodi; Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Bradley, Robert H.; Eggum-Wilkens, Natalie D. – Child Development, 2014
Panel mediation models and fixed-effects models were used to explore longitudinal relations among parents' reactions to children's displays of negative emotions, children's effortful control (EC), and children's math achievement (N = 291; M age in fall of kindergarten = 5.66 years, SD = 0.39 year) across kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Emotional Response, Child Behavior
Nonlinear Models of Development: An Example from the Socialization of Competence.
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Roberts, William L. – Child Development, 1986
Discusses both the advantages and difficulties of using nonlinear modeling in the context of a model used to study the relations between parental warmth and control and preschool children's competence. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Family Environment, Interpersonal Competence
The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model.
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Belsky, Jay – Child Development, 1984
Suggests that the determinants of individual differences in parental functioning are illuminated by research on the etiology of child maltreatment. Three domains of determinants include parents' personal psychological resources, child characteristics, and contextual sources of stress and support. A process model of competent parental functioning…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Context Effect, Individual Characteristics, Models
Coping Socialization in Middle Childhood: Tests of Maternal and Paternal Influences.
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Kliewer, Wendy; And Others – Child Development, 1996
A theoretical model of parental socialization of children's coping behavior was tested with 310 fourth- and fifth-graders. Found that children's coping efforts were associated with family environment, the quality of the parent-child relationship, parents' own coping, and parent coping suggestions. Maternal data were more strongly associated with…
Descriptors: Coping, Family Environment, Fathers, Models
The Emergence of Same-Sex Affiliative Preferences among Preschool Peers: A Developmental/Ethological Perspective.
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La Freniere, Peter; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Systematic observations of affiliative interaction in 15 stable peer groups were conducted across three years in an urban day care center. Groups contained 193 French-speaking children ranging in age from one to six years. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Ethology, Foreign Countries, Models
The Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Collective Socialization, and Parenting on African American Children's Affiliation with Deviant Peers.
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Brody, Gene H.; Ge, Xiaojia; Conger, Rand; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Murry, Velma McBride; Gerrard, Meg; Simons, Ronald L. – Child Development, 2001
Used a hierarchical linear model to examine contributions of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting to African American 10- to 12-year-olds' affiliation with deviant peers. Found that community disadvantage had a significant positive effect on deviant peer affiliations. Nurturant/involved parenting and collective…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Black Youth, Community Characteristics, Delinquency
Origins of Human Competence: A Cultural-Ecological Perspective.
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Ogbu, John U. – Child Development, 1981
Argues that child socialization is directed toward the development of instrumental competencies related to imperatives that vary across cultures. Criticizes the use of White middle-class standards in developmental research and proposes a cultural ecological model which studies competence in the context of the cultural imperatives of a given…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Competence, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Structural Equation Models in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Model Building.
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Anderson, James G. – Child Development, 1987
Demonstrates how structural equation modeling can be used to translate a verbal theory into a mathematical model that can be estimated and tested, and from which inferences can be drawn. Data used was taken from a previous study of the effects of family socialization on the formation of achievement values and self-concept. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Cultural Differences, Demography