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Sarah Nelson Potter; Danielle Harvey; Audra Sterling; Leonard Abbeduto – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Past research shows that parentally responsive behavior toward the child positively influences language development in both neurotypical children and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including those with fragile X syndrome (FXS); however, most studies have focused exclusively on the mother--child relationship.…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Parents, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship
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Tully, Erin C.; Gray, Jackson M.; Goodman, Sherryl H.; Nowicki, Stephen, Jr. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Children who expect they can bring about good outcomes and avoid bad outcomes tend to experience more personal successes. Little is known about factors that contribute to these "control expectancies". The purpose of the present study was to determine whether children's internal control expectancies occur in the context of parents'…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Expectation, Parents, Family Environment
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Furnham, Adrian; Wu, Chun – High Ability Studies, 2014
This study set out to examine whether Chinese parents, more than people from other nations, over-estimate the intelligence of their son (little emperor) compared to their daughter. In this study, 155 pairs of married couples from mainland China estimated their own, their partner's and their only child's overall intelligence and 13 "multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Intelligence, Sons
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Merrill, Natalie; Gallo, Emily; Fivush, Robyn – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Family dinnertime conversations are key settings where children learn behavior regulation, narrative skills, and knowledge about the world. In this context, parents may also model and socialize gender differences in language. The present study quantitatively examines gendered language use across a family dinnertime recorded with 37 broadly…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Environment, Family Life, Eating Habits
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Hou, Zhi-Jin; Leung, S. Alvin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
This study examined the vocational aspirations and parental vocational expectations of high school students and their parents (1067 parent-child dyads). Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and an Occupations List. The Occupations List consisted of 126 occupational titles evenly distributed across the six Holland types. Parents were…
Descriptors: Expectation, High Schools, Occupations, Daughters
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Sarkisian, Natalia; Gerstel, Naomi – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2004
Although it is well established that adult daughters spend more time giving assistance to their parents than do sons, the sources of this gender gap are not well understood. This paper asks: To what extent can this gap be explained by structural variation, especially the different rates of employment and kinds of jobs that women and men tend to…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Daughters, Gender Differences, Surveys