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Easterbrooks, M. Ann; Goldberg, Wendy A. – Child Development, 1984
To determine the impact of quantitative and qualitative aspects of fathering, relationships among father involvement in childrearing, parenting characteristics, and child adaptation were investigated. Results from 70 infants 20 months of age and their parents highlighted the salience of qualitative characteristics of parenting for toddler…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Emotional Response, Fathers, Individual Characteristics
Atman, Kathryn S.; Romano, Patricia R. – 1987
Conation is a domain of behavior or mental processes associated with goal directed action. Wholistic education stresses an integrated approach to an individual's learning process; thus, consideration of the integration of the four domains (cognitive, affective, psychomotor and conative) can find a receptive niche among educators who seek to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Holistic Approach
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Riding, Richard; Cheema, Indra – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Discusses research on cognitive styles and strategies. Groups labels into two principle styles. Describes the wholist-analytic style, examining whether an individual tends to process information in wholes or parts, and the verbalizer-imager style considering whether an individual is inclined to represent information during thinking verbally or in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education