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Silletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
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Bernier, Annie; Matte-Gagne, Celia – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this report was to investigate the associations between attachment state of mind, romantic attachment style, and indices of maternal functioning in two relational spheres: the mother-child relationship (i.e., maternal sensitivity and child attachment security) and the marital relationship (i.e., mothers' and their partners' marital…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Dotterer, Aryn M.; Hoffman, Lesa; Crouter, Ann C.; McHale, Susan M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
We examined reciprocal associations between parent-adolescent conflict and academic achievement over a 2-year period. Participants were mothers, fathers, and adolescents from predominantly White, working and middle class families (N = 168). After accounting for previous academic achievement, parent-adolescent conflict predicted relative declines…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Conflict, Academic Achievement, Parents
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Foucault, Darlene C.; Schneider, Barry H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Poverty is known to influence parenting values, parenting stress, psychological adjustment, and social support according to North American research. The purpose of this study was to determine whether poverty might work in similar ways in a collectivistic Latin culture. The participants were primary caregivers in two distinct communities in the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Mothers, Economically Disadvantaged, Child Rearing
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Kelley, Michelle L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Examined the degree to which African-American mothers took a parent- versus child-oriented approach to disciplinary practices. Found associations of maternal education and age with mothers' use of physical punishment; mothers' age and concerns about child victimization with mothers' use of social control; and maternal education with restrictive…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Discipline
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Martini, Tanya S.; Root, Carol A.; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Social Development, 2004
The present study investigated the effects of situational (child situational emotions) and dispositional (child temperament) child variables on mothers' regulation of their own hostile (anger) and nonhostile (sadness and anxiety) emotions. Participants included 94 low and middle income mothers and their children (41 girls; 53 boys) aged 3 to 6…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Middle Class, Emotional Response, Personality Traits
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Ackerman-Ross, Susan; Khanna, Prabha – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1989
Compared day care and home-reared children's language performance. Results showed home and day care children did not differ on IQ or dependent language measures. IQ was strongest predictor of language performance; birth order was next strongest. Fathers' language activity time and parent educational level related to language performance.…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Radin, Norma; Goldsmith, Rena – 1983
A study was made to assess whether middle-class men who were primary caregivers for their preschool-age children continued as such when their children were of school age. The attempt was made to predict level of paternal involvement 4 years later; also explored were the stability and predictors of father involvement over a 4-year period when the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, Chronological Age, Comparative Analysis