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Brigitta Szabó; Judit Futó; Patrick Luyten; Márton Boda; Mónika Miklósi – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parental reflective functioning refers to the ability of parents to understand their child as motivated by internal mental experiences such as thoughts and feelings. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Hungarian version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ) and to assess its relationships with general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Reflection
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Thorlacius, Örnólfur; Gudmundsson, Einar – School Mental Health, 2019
The study examined the screening effectiveness of the Children's Emotional Adjustment Scale (CEAS), a parent-reported scale that measures the emotional competence of children across four continuous factors (temper control, mood repair, anxiety control, social assertiveness) anchored in adaptive child behaviors, characteristics and skills that are…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Mental Health, Screening Tests, Children
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Filippello, Pina; Harrington, Neil; Costa, Sebastiano; Buzzai, Caterina; Sorrenti, Luana – School Psychology International, 2018
The present study aims to investigate the relation between perceived parental psychological control, school learned helplessness and mastery orientation, and also to test frustration intolerance as a mediator in the relation between perceived psychological control and school learned helplessness. The sample consisted of 214 (86 male and 128…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parenting Styles, High School Students, Late Adolescents
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Aunola, Kaisa; Viljaranta, Jaana; Tolvanen, Asko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether parental daily distress in terms of negative emotions is associated with the daily variation in parental use of psychological control with their children. Whether parental positive emotions play a role in the use of psychological control was also investigated. The participants were 149…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Psychological Patterns, Parenting Styles
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Preszler, Jonathan; Gartstein, Maria A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Questions concerning longitudinal stability and multi-method consistency are critical to temperament research. Latent State-Trait (LST) analyses address these directly, and were utilized in this study. Thus, our primary objective was to apply LST analyses in a temperament context, using longitudinal and multi-method data to determine the amount of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Longitudinal Studies
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Thorlacius, Örnólfur; Gudmundsson, Einar – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
The study examined the psychometric properties of the Children's Emotional Adjustment Scale--Preschool Version (CEAS-P), a new behavioral rating scale completed by parents. The scale measures preschoolers' emotional functioning across three competency-based factors (Temper control, Social assertiveness, Anxiety control) anchored on healthy…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Preschool Children, Behavior Rating Scales, Mothers
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Brantmüller, Éva; Gyúró, Mónika; Galgán, Kitti; Pakai, Annamária – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2016
Twin birth is a relevant risk factor for postnatal depression (PND). The primary objective of our study is to reveal the prevalence of suspected cases of depression and to identify some background factors among mothers of twins. We applied convenience sampling method within a retrospective, quantitative study among mothers given birth to twins for…
Descriptors: Females, Birth, Mothers, Depression (Psychology)
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Stern, Jessica A.; Fraley, R. Chris; Jones, Jason D.; Gross, Jacquelyn T.; Shaver, Phillip R.; Cassidy, Jude – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Adult Development, Economically Disadvantaged
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Horn, Sarah R.; Miller-Graff, Laura E.; Galano, Maria M.; Graham-Bermann, Sandra A. – Child Care in Practice, 2017
In recent years, researchers have focused on acquiring a better understanding of the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children under the age of six following exposure to chronic trauma, such as intimate partner violence (IPV). Despite a number of empirical studies on early childhood PTSD, few have examined how children differ…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Family Violence, Trauma, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Nemati, Shahrooz; Mirnasab, Mir Mahmoud; Bonab, Bagher Ghobari – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The aim of the current study was to predict mental health of the mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the magnitude of their forgiveness. To fulfill the stated goal 88 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities by means of accessible sampling procedure, and Besharat mental health…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Buri, John R.; Post, Maria C.; Alliegro, Marissa C. – Online Submission, 2018
The relationship between Young's (1999) Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMSs) and Baumrind's (1971) parental authority prototypes (i.e., permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative) were investigated. As hypothesized, parental authoritarianism positively predicted the prevalence of EMSs, whereas authoritativeness was inversely related to EMS scores.…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Power Structure, Authoritarianism, Permissive Environment
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Yu, Jing; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Hart, Craig H.; Sun, Shuyan; Olsen, Joseph A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Despite the theoretical conceptualization of parental psychological control as a multidimensional construct, the majority of previous studies have examined psychological control as a unidimensional scale. Moreover, the conceptualization of shaming and its associations with love withdrawal and guilt induction are unclear. The current study aimed to…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles
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Reynolds, Bridget M.; Robles, Theodore F.; Repetti, Rena L. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Methodological challenges associated with measurement reactivity and fatigue were addressed using diary data collected from mothers (n = 47), fathers (n = 39), and children (n = 47; 8-13 years) across 56 consecutive days. Demonstrating the feasibility of extended diary studies with families, on-time compliance rates were upward of 90% for all…
Descriptors: Diaries, Mothers, Fathers, Children
Kolomeyer, Ellen; Renk, Kimberly; Cunningham, Annelise; Lowell, Amanda; Khan, Maria – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
Previous studies have supported a connection between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and negative outcomes in adulthood. Fewer studies have examined the connection between ACEs and parenting behaviors, however. The study described in this article examined the relationships among ACEs, reflective functioning, and negative parenting behaviors…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns
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Chaparro, Maria Paula; Grusec, Joan E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016
Links among neuroticism, inconsistent discipline, and empathy were assessed in a longitudinal study of adolescents. Mothers', but not fathers', inconsistent discipline predicted decreases in empathy 2 years later, but only for adolescents who were low in neuroticism. For those who were high, there was no effect of inconsistent discipline.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, Correlation
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