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Di Giunta, Laura; Rothenberg, W. Andrew; Lunetti, Carolina; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Eisenberg, Nancy; Thartori, Eriona; Basili, Emanuele; Favini, Ainzara; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Peña Alampay, Liane; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Skinner, Ann T.; Godwin, Jennifer; Alampay, Liane Peña; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Pastorelli, Concetta; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented families around the world with extraordinary challenges related to physical and mental health, economic security, social support, and education. The current study capitalizes on a longitudinal, cross-national study of parenting, adolescent development, and young adult competence to document the association…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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Ray, James V.; Frick, Paul J.; Thornton, Laura C.; Wall Myers, Tina D.; Steinberg, Laurence; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Research has only recently begun to examine how callous-unemotional (CU) traits interact with contextual factors to predict delinquent behavior. The current study attempts to explain the well-established link between CU traits and offending by testing the potential mediating and moderating roles of 2 critical contextual factors: peer delinquency…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Delinquency, Peer Influence
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Williams, Lela Rankin; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 2011
The over-time reciprocal links between parenting and adolescent adjustment were examined in a sample of 1,354 serious adolescent offenders followed for 3 years (16 years of age at baseline, SD = 1.14). Parallel processing growth curve models provided independent estimates of the impact of parenting on adolescent functioning as well as the impact…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Belsky, Jay; Steinberg, Laurence; Houts, Renate M.; Halpern-Felsher, Bonnie L. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
To test a proposition central to J. Belsky, L. Steinberg, and P. Draper's (1991) evolutionary theory of socialization--that pubertal maturation plays a role in linking early rearing experience with adolescent sexual risk taking (i.e., frequency of sexual behavior) and, perhaps, other risk taking (e.g., alcohol, drugs, delinquency)--the authors…
Descriptors: Evolution, Females, Path Analysis, Sexuality
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Blatt-Eisengart, Ilana; Drabick, Deborah A. G.; Monahan, Kathryn C.; Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Despite potential sex differences in base rates, predictors, and maintaining processes for children's externalizing behaviors, little prospective research has examined sex differences in the relations between concurrent, proximal family risk factors and children's externalizing behaviors. The current study examined the relations among maternal…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Structural Equation Models, Child Health, Risk
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Williams, Lela Rankin; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly E.; Henderson, Heather A.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Pine, Daniel S.; Steinberg, Laurence; Fox, Nathan A. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
Behavioral inhibition (BI) is characterized by a pattern of extreme social reticence, risk for internalizing behavior problems, and possible protection against externalizing behavior problems. Parenting style may also contribute to these associations between BI and behavior problems (BP). A sample of 113 children was assessed for BI in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Inhibition
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Steinberg, Laurence – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
The construct of psychological control, important in research on parenting and adolescent development, is much in need of clarification.
Descriptors: Psychology, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
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Morris, Amanda Sheffield; Silk, Jennifer S.; Steinberg, Laurence; Myers, Sonya S.; Robinson, Lara Rachel – Social Development, 2007
This article reviews current literature examining associations between components of the family context and children and adolescents' emotion regulation (ER). The review is organized around a tripartite model of familial influence. Firstly, it is posited that children learn about ER through observational learning, modeling and social referencing.…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Observational Learning
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Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2001
Reviews research on adolescent development in the family context. Focuses on how best to characterize normative family relationships during adolescence, especially related to parent-child conflict, and on the effect of variations in parent-child relationships on adolescent development. Argues that there is enough evidence to conclude that…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Rearing, Organizations (Groups)
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Chung, He Len; Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The present study examined relations among neighborhood structural and social characteristics, parenting practices, peer group affiliations, and delinquency among a group of serious adolescent offenders. The sample of 14-18-year-old boys (N = 488) was composed primarily of economically disadvantaged, ethnic-minority youth living in urban…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Influence
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Little, Michelle; Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006
This study examined a model of the simultaneous and interactive influence of social context, psychosocial attitudes, and individual maturity on the prediction of urban adolescent drug dealing. Five factors were found to significantly increase adolescents' opportunity for drug selling: low parental monitoring, poor neighborhood conditions, low…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents, Peer Groups
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Steinberg, Laurence; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Approximately 6,400 adolescents reported on their parents' child rearing practices. Data on adolescents' school performance and concentration on studies were collected over two years. Authoritative parenting led to better school performance and stronger concentration on studies than did other styles of parenting. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, High School Students, High Schools
Steinberg, Laurence; And Others – 1990
This study examined whether the widely reported positive relation between "authoritative" parenting and adolescent adjustment is moderated by the ecological context in which adolescents live. A socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of approximately 10,000 high school students provided information about their parents' behavior…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cultural Differences
Steinberg, Laurence; Levine, Ann – 1997
Parents' relationship with a child will change when the child becomes an adolescent, but the relationship does not necessarily have to change for the worse. On the premise that knowing what to expect of this change is half the task of successfully parenting an adolescent, this book describes the "normal" developmental changes young people undergo…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Change