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Crystal L. Sanders – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate college students' beliefs of their parents' role in influencing their character development, and of their own character in influencing their college academic achievement. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are college students' beliefs about how parental role modeling…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Role Models, Personality Development
Lavoie-Perusse, Simon – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this research paper is to find a correlation between peer, genetic, and environmental influences and the behavior and personality development during childhood. This study focuses on the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre to try to explain certain kinds of behavior. The study made on 275 freshmen at Cornell University showed that…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Development, Genetics, Biological Influences

Young, Shari K.; Fox, Nathan A.; Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined role of infant and toddler temperament in predicting 2-year olds' empathy. Found that children showed relatively more concern for mother's distress, but were also responsive to unfamiliar victims. Unreacting infants showing little affect also showed less empathy toward the unfamiliar adult almost two years later. Inhibition toward…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Empathy, Infant Behavior, Infants

Weinberg, M. Katherine; Tronick, Edward Z.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Olson, Karen L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Evaluated gender differences in infant and maternal emotional expressivity and regulation with 6-month-old infants and their mothers, using Tronick's face-to-face still-face model. Found that maternal affect, matching, rate of change between matching and mismatching states, and synchrony in the play preceding the still face differentially mediated…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions, Infants

van den Boom, Dymphna C.; Hoeksma, Jan B. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
To further understanding of temperament-interaction relationships, patterns of interactive behavior were observed in 30 lower-class mother-infant dyads (15 irritable and 15 nonirritable infants) at monthly intervals over a 6-month period. Findings revealed that maternal behavior was systematically more positive with nonirritable infants that with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Infants, Lower Class Parents
Brody, Gene H.; Stoneman, Zolinda – Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 1996
This study represents further work into the area of what specific processes determine whether a sibling relationship will be positive or negative. Specifically addressed was the influence of each child's personality or temperament in shaping the quality and type of sibling relationship. Significant attention was paid to analyzing sibling…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Development, Family Influence, Family Role
Lieberman, Alicia F. – 1993
Noting that parenting a toddler can be both exhilarating and frustrating, this book draws on lifelong research into children's emotional development to provide parents with a better understanding of toddlers' emotional range and how it affects toddler behavior. The 10 chapters and the conclusion cover the following areas: (1) the emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Furman, Wyndol; Lanthier, Richard P. – Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 1996
This study examined the role personality variables play in sibling relationships. It proposed that the characteristics of sibling relationships are influenced by: family constellation variables such as birth order, gender, and age spacing; parent-child relationships including quality of relationship and parent management of siblings; and the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Development, Family Life, First Born

Protinsky, Howard; Gilkey, Joyce Katherine – Adolescence, 1996
Assessed a random sample of 102 female students from a small private college concerning levels of individuation, intimacy, intimidation, parental triangulation, and personal authority. These concepts formed the construct of Personal Authority and were tested regarding their relationship to self-esteem, physical health, and college adjustment.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Environment, College Students, Females
Newberger, Eli H. – 1999
Noting that characteristics such as attachment, honesty, self control, sportsmanship, generosity, and courage may be nurtured or thwarted by parents, teachers, or society, this book examines the roots of male character from birth to late adolescence. It maintains that particular intrinsic biological drives combine with parenting styles and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self. 18 to 36 Months. Goddard Parenting Guides.
Pruett, Kyle D. – 1999
This book provides practical help for parents to enhance their toddler's growth and development. Chapter 1, "The Importance of Being Two," explains why toddlerhood is the best time for providing an emotional foundation. Chapter 2, "The Young Child's Brain and Mind," discusses how recent findings on brain development have…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Child Rearing, Competence
Crosser, Sandra – Early Childhood News, 1997
Argues that, of the authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative styles of interaction with children, the latter nurtures the emergence of positive character traits in young children. Suggests listening, setting high and reasonable standards, explaining why, negotiating reasonable solutions, offering choices, and valuing ideas and opinions as…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Ethics
Thomas, Alexander; And Others – 1968
A longitudinal study begun in 1956 on the effect of the child's temperament on his development included 141 children, 136 of whom remained throughout the study. Aged 4 to 10 years in 1966, the 69 boys and 67 girls had a mean IQ of 127 established at 3 and 6 years of age and were from 85 middle or upper middle class families. The Parental Attitude…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Rearing
Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy – 2000
Noting that power struggles between parents and children provide rich opportunities for parents to teach children how to deal with strong emotions and for parents and children to solve problems together, this book provides parents with "emotion coaching" strategies for identifying the emotions and needs that can create daily hassles.…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs