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Rui Li; Zong Meng; Yueqin Hu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Childhood is a critical period for the development of prosocial behavior, and the family serves as a crucial microsystem for fostering prosocial behavior in children. Prior research has indicated that parental monitoring, a specific family factor directly targeting children, can predict children's prosocial behavior. However, the influence of the…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Children, Family Influence, Behavior Development
Hongbin Xie; Cong Liu; Shuang Wang; Xiaolong Wang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Screen time may have a significant association with children's development, yet limited research has examined the specific moderating role of family and child characteristics in this relationship. In this study, we investigated the relationship between screen time exposure and children's development and moderating effects of the family environment…
Descriptors: Mass Media Use, Preschool Children, Behavior Development, Child Development
Christiaan Bezuidenhout; Melanie Moen – Perspectives in Education, 2024
Violent crimes and domestic violence are notoriously high in South Africa, which leaves many children defenceless to struggle with emotions such as loneliness and sadness. The healthy development and socialisation of children can be difficult in a society characterised by domestic tribulations, poverty, crime, single-parent homes, and absent…
Descriptors: Child Development, Violence, Poverty, Crime
Jayalekshmi, N. B.; Dharma Raja, B. William – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2011
Early adolescence is a period of transition when the individual changes physically and psychologically from a child to an adult. This transition involves physical, cognitive and socio- emotional changes. The developmental changes that occur during this period cause varying degree of disturbance. The changes they undergo sometimes results in…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Family Environment, Behavior Development, Adolescent Development
Smith, Maureen C. – 1993
Mastery motivation, usually measured by task persistence, is often used to predict infant competence. This study attempted to clarify how a measure of persistence can be used to facilitate the prediction of competence when examining the relationship between persistence and maternal child-rearing behavior. The measure of persistence used in this…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Exploratory Behavior, Family Environment

Hagekull, Berit; Bohlin, Gunilla – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Analyzes relationships between directly observed infant and mother behavior and infant temperament characteristics, as described in maternal ratings; separates the effects of different variance components in prediction of the observed behaviors; and explores possible interactions between infant sex and infant temperament in determining both infant…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Family Environment

Smallbone, Stephen W.; Dadds, Mark R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998
Forty-eight incarcerated sex offenders were compared with 16 property offenders and 16 nonoffenders on self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment and adult attachment. Results suggest that insecure childhood attachments may be related to offending behavior generally and that certain combinations of childhood attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Correctional Institutions, Criminals

Carlson, Marcia J.; Corcoran, Mary E. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth was used to examine the effect of various family structures on behavioral and cognitive outcomes for children aged 7 to 10. Results indicate family income, mother's psychological functioning, and quality of home environment are important for behavior, whereas family income and mother's aptitude…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Children

Haight, Wendy L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Examined the spontaneous pretend play of mothers and children from the inception of pretend play in late infancy through its elaboration during the preschool years. Suggests that although mothers and young children had different primary motives for initiating pretend play, they both capitalized upon the others' interests in, or support of, pretend…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Family Environment

Vondra, Joan I.; Hommerding, Katherine Dowdell; Shaw, Daniel S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Investigated role of maternal characteristics and behavior, perceptions of social support, and infant characteristics to differentiate early patterns of infant security, organized insecurity and disorganization among socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Found a variety of correlations with different attachment patterns. Also found that change…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories
Saunders, Minta M. – 1972
To identify any differences in emotional/personality development of a group of infants reared at home and a matched groups of infants enrolled in a day care center, data were obtained on behaviors of two groups of infants. The sample consisted of 15 demographically matched pairs of infants, ages 3-24 months at entrance. Data were collected through…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
Saltaris, Christina; Serbin, Lisa A.; Stack, Dale M.; Karp, Jennifer A.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Ledingham, Jane E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The current investigation was designed to examine the provision of cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged children from high-risk families. Participants were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a prospective, longitudinal investigation of individuals recruited in 1976-77 from lower SES neighbourhoods who were rated by childhood…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Stimulation, Investigations, Preschool Children
Johnson, Stephen M.; And Others – 1972
This article reports a study investigating deviant behavior in normal families. It examines nonproblem children and their families in their homes. It provides information on rates of deviant behavior for children without identified behavioral difficulties and the interaction patterns of family members who deal with these children. It analyzes: (1)…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research
Nardine, Frank E.; Zeidler, Anita L. – 1986
To discover what part parent impartiality might play in creating a climate in which each individual child can prosper, 198 college students from a large Midwestern urban university were questioned about their perceptions of their parents' behavior during the time that they were growing up. The first section of the survey consisted of 50 questions…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, College Students

Herrenkohl, Ellen C.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
This study assessed physically abused/neglected and nonabused/nonneglected children (n=206) at preschool and elementary school age to identify variables significantly affecting children's behavioral functioning. Behavioral functioning was most strongly differentiated by the sociocultural and family climate in which the child was raised, with…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse
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