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Liu, Mowei; Chen, Xinyin; Zheng, Shujie; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Li – Social Development, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the contributions of maternal encouragement of autonomy and maternal encouragement of connectedness to the prediction of children's social behaviors. A sample of children (N = 94), initially aged two years, and their mothers in China participated in the two-year longitudinal study. Child autonomy and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Peer Relationship
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Vierhaus, Marc; Lohaus, Arnold – Social Development, 2009
The main research question of this study is whether children's emotional responses to specific stress-evoking situations (anger or anxiety) and the coping strategies they would use are related. Furthermore, it is asked if these relationships are consistent over a specific age range. A total sample of 432 second graders participated in a…
Descriptors: Coping, Anxiety, Emotional Response, Stress Variables
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Shoffner, Marie F.; Vacc, Nicholas A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2002
During recent years, there has been increased interest in the relationship between neighborhood environments and social deviancy. This article reports on the development of an index of neighborhoods, which is built upon community features of social and physical incivilities (Wandersman & Nation, 1998). Factor structure and internal consistency…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Evaluation Methods