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Lønfeldt, Nicole N.; Esbjørn, Barbara H.; Normann, Nicoline; Breinholst, Sonja; Francis, Sarah E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2017
Background: Recent research suggests that adults and children with anxiety disorders have a particular set of metacognitive beliefs and strategies. Knowing whether parents' metacognitions, beliefs and behaviors are associated with their children's metacognitions is important for understanding how anxiety-related metacognitions and clinical anxiety…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Prediction
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Kenny, Rachel; Dooley, Barbara; Fitzgerald, Amanda – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine positive and negative qualities in adolescents' interpersonal relationships and their relative importance in predicting emotional distress. Participants were 260 students from three schools in the Dublin area (119 girls; 141 boys), aged 12-18 years (M = 15.32, SD = 1.91). Students completed questionnaires…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Questionnaires, Interpersonal Relationship, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Murphy, Tia Panfile; Laible, Deborah J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The current study examined the direction of the association between children's attachment security and empathic responding. At 42 and 48 months of age, 69 children's empathic concern was observed, and mothers reported the children's attachment. Results indicated that attachment at 42 months predicted empathic concern at 48 months even after…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Empathy, Prediction, Attachment Behavior
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Sparks, Martha A.; Radnitz, Cynthia L. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2013
Objective: To examine both unique and interactive effects of parent restrictive feeding and child disinhibited eating behavior on child body mass index (BMI) in low-income Latino and African American preschoolers. Methods: The sample included 229 parent-child pairs, the majority of whom were low-income and Latino (57%) or African American (25%).…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Body Composition, Low Income, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Gianakos, Irene – Journal of Career Development, 2013
Although styles of self-reliance theoretically arise from early attachments, other research suggests the influence of attachment operates indirectly through internalized but modifiable beliefs about the self and others. The present study examined the relative contribution of parental attachment, social support perceptions, control beliefs, and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Influences, Self Concept, Parent Child Relationship
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Ambrose, Holly N.; Menna, Rosanne – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study examined the relationships between the quality of parent-child interactions, specifically interactional synchrony (IS), and physical and relational aggression in young children. Seventy-three children (3-6 years; 44 males, 29 females) and their mothers participated in this study. The children's level of aggression was assessed through…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Play, Task Analysis
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Gaunt, Ruth; Bassi, Liat – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
This study examined modeling and compensatory processes underlying the effects of an early paternal model on father involvement in child care. Drawing on social learning theory, it was hypothesized that father-son relationships would moderate the association between a father's involvement and his own father's involvement. A sample of 136 kibbutz…
Descriptors: Socialization, Imitation, Sons, Fathers
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Khamis, Vivian – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
This study investigated predictors of academic achievement among Palestinian children, including child and parent characteristics, exposure to armed conflict, child strengths, and children's hope. Participants were 1,697 children of both genders. The mean age of participants was 12 years, 10 months. Results of the final hierarchical multiple…
Descriptors: Violence, Conflict, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Brown, Tamala P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many studies have been conducted to address childhood behavior problems, but much remains unknown regarding the causes and factors that affect internalizing and externalizing problems in children. The purpose of the current research study was to examine the relationships between children's internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and (a)…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Behavior Problems, Children, Family Structure