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Goering, Marlon; Mrug, Sylvie – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
Parents play an important role in adolescents' development of empathy. However, less understood is what dimensions of parental behavior predict changes in empathy during early adolescence and whether effects of parental behavior are moderated by pubertal timing or differ by sex. This study used data from an ethnically diverse sample of 704 youth…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Empathy, Prediction
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Ding, Xiaoqin; Ansari, Arya; Li, Xile; Liu, Yuan; Yan, Ni – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined the reciprocal relations among maternal sensitivity, paternal sensitivity, and children's social adjustment from 54 months of age to 5th grade. Using a subsample from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 829), we employed an autoregressive latent trajectory…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Parent Child Relationship, Individual Differences, Parenting Styles
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Gülseven, Zehra; Liu, Yangyang; Ma, Ting-Lan; Yu, Mark Vincent B.; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Zarrett, Nicole – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Developmental theories and previous research have emphasized the significance of cooperation and self-control in middle childhood. The present study extends previous research by examining (a) the growth of cooperation and self-control as well as the relations between them in middle childhood (third to sixth grade) and (b) the extent to which…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Self Control, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Thompson, Stephanie F.; Zalewski, Maureen; Kiff, Cara J.; Moran, Lyndsey; Cortes, Rebecca; Lengua, Liliana J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study tested child characteristics (temperamental executive control and negative reactivity) and maternal characteristics (parenting behaviors and maternal depressive symptoms) as predictors of a mother's emotion-related socialization behaviors (ERSBs). Further, parenting behaviors and ERSBs were examined as predictors of children's emotion…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Socialization, Predictor Variables, Parenting Styles
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Lavoie, Jennifer; Wyman, Joshua; Crossman, Angela M.; Talwar, Victoria – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
Despite the fact that lie-telling is a common concern among parents, clinicians, and professionals, there has been little systematic investigation of the lies that children tell in relation to their problematic behaviors, nor of other social factors that may influence this relation. This study explored the relation between children's problem…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Deception, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems
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Streit, Cara; Carlo, Gustavo; Ispa, Jean M.; Palermo, Francisco – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study examined the early parenting and temperament determinants of children's antisocial and positive behaviors in a low-income, diverse ethno-racial sample. Participants were from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, which included 960 European American (initial M age = 15.00 months; 51.2% female) and 880 African…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, African Americans
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Wang, Yiji; Dix, Theodore – Developmental Psychology, 2017
On the basis of longitudinal data across 9 years, this study examined the contribution of sustained attention and executive function to the poor cognitive and socioemotional adjustment of school-age children whose mothers had depressive symptoms during the child's infancy. Mothers (N = 1,364) reported depressive symptoms across their child's…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Infants