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Relations of Parenting and Temperament to Chinese Children's Experience of Negative Life Events, Coping Efficacy, and Externalizing Problems
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Zhou, Qing; Wang, Yun; Deng, Xianli; Eisenberg, Nancy; Wolchik, Sharlene A.; Tein, Jenn-Yun – Child Development, 2008
The relations of parenting and temperament (effortful control and anger/frustration) to children's externalizing problems were examined in a 3.8-year longitudinal study of 425 native Chinese children (6-9 years) from Beijing. Children's experience of negative life events and coping efficacy were examined as mediators in the parenting- and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Parents' Reactions to Children's Negative Emotions: Relations to Children's Social Competence and Comforting Behavior.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined the relations of mothers' and fathers' reported emotion-related practices to parents' and teachers' reports of third- to sixth-grade children's social skills, popularity, and coping. Found that mothers' problem-focused reactions were positively associated with children's social functioning and coping, whereas maternal minimizing reactions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Coping, Fathers
Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Prediction of Children's Social Functioning from Regulation and Emotionality.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined relationship of emotion regulation and emotionality to social functioning in 77 children followed from age 4 to age 10. Found that high-quality social functioning was predicted by high emotion regulation and low nonconstructive coping, negative emotionality, and emotional intensity. Measures of regulation and emotionality frequently…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Coping, Emotional Development
The Relations of Emotionality and Regulation to Preschoolers' Social Skills and Sociometric Status.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Teachers' ratings of children's constructive coping and attentional control were positively related to boys' social skills and peer status. Children's emotional intensity and their coping behavior that involved acting out were negatively related to girls' and boys' social skills and boys' peer status. Mothers' reports of boys' low emotional…
Descriptors: Coping, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship
Shyness and Children's Emotionality, Regulation, and Coping: Contemporaneous, Longitudinal, and Across-Context Relations.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Shepard, Stephanie A.; Fabes, Richard A.; Murphy, Bridget C.; Guthrie, Ivanna K. – Child Development, 1998
Examined the relations of teachers' and parents' reports of children's shyness at ages 6-8, 8-10, and 10-12 years to dispositional regulation, emotionality, and coping. The overall pattern of findings was partially consistent with the conclusion that parent-rated shyness reflected primarily social wariness with unfamiliar people, whereas…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Context Effect
The Relations of Emotionality and Regulation to Children's Anger-Related Reactions.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the relations of emotionality and regulation to preschoolers' naturally occurring anger reactions through observations of behavior. Children's use of verbal objections to anger situations were positively related to constructive coping and attentional control, particularly for boys, and negatively related to girls' anger intensity,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anger, Coping
The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Assessed parental characteristics; children's physiological and self-reported reactions to a sympathy-inducing film; and children's dispositional traits. Parental sympathy was related to low distress in same-sex children, and to sons' sympathy. Same-sex parental restrictiveness of hurtful emotional displays was related to children's sympathy. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Coping, Discipline, Elementary Education