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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