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Beyond Attachment Theory: Indigenous Perspectives on the Child-Caregiver Bond from a Northwest Tribal Community
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Sara F. Waters; Meenakshi Richardson; Sara R. Mills; Alvina Marris; Fawn Harris; Myra Parker – Child Development, 2024
Healthy Indigenous child development is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Attachment theory has been influential in understanding the significance of parenting for infant development in Western science but has focused on child-caregiver bonds predominantly within the parent-child dyad. To bring forth Indigenous perspectives…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Tribal Sovereignty, Attachment Behavior, Indigenous Populations
Development of Gender Attitude Traditionality across Middle Childhood and Adolescence
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Crouter, Ann C.; Whiteman, Shawn D.; McHale, Susan M.; Osgood, D. Wayne – Child Development, 2007
The development of gender attitudes in 402 youth (201 firstborn and 201 secondborn siblings) in 201 European American families was examined using data collected on seven occasions across 9 years. Pooling across siblings and using multilevel modeling, we examined gender attitude development from ages 7 to 19. Consistent with an ecological…
Descriptors: Siblings, Birth Order, Sex Role, Gender Issues
Comprehension and Inferences from Traditional and Nontraditional Sex-Role Portrayals on Television.
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List, Judith A.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Assesses third-grade children's comprehension of traditional and nontraditional female sex-role portrayals in television programs. For both programs, children demonstrated accurate memory for role-relevant information, but children with higher levels of sex-role stereotyping remembered less role-relevant information than did children with lower…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Memory
Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories.
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Bandura, Albert; Barbaranelli, Claudio; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Pastorelli, Concetta – Child Development, 2001
Tested a structural model of the network of sociocognitive influences shaping children's career aspirations and trajectories among 272 early adolescents. Found that subjects' perceived efficacy rather than their actual academic achievement was the key determinant of their perceived occupational self-efficacy and preferred choice of worklife.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Beliefs, Career Choice, Early Adolescents
Family Context and Gender Role Socialization in Middle Childhood: Comparing Girls to Boys and Sisters to Brothers.
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McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Tucker, Corinna J. – Child Development, 1999
Examined sex-typing in child personality, interests, and activities as function of traditionality of parents' gender role attitudes and sex composition of sibling dyads. Found that sex-typing was most evident in children's interests and activities. Differences in children's sex-typing as a function of fathers' attitudes and sibling sex…
Descriptors: Activities, Childhood Interests, Children, Comparative Analysis
Parenting and Adolescents' Accuracy in Perceiving Parental Values.
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Knafo, Ariel; Schwartz, Shalom H. – Child Development, 2003
Examined potential predictors of Israeli adolescents' accuracy in perceiving parental values. Found that accuracy in perceiving parents' overall value system correlated positively with parents' actual and perceived value agreement and perceived parental warmth and responsiveness, but negatively with perceived value conflict, indifferent parenting,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Family Communication, Foreign Countries