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Parents' Peer Restriction in the United States and China: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adolescents
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Xiong, Yu; Qin, Lili; Wang, Meifang; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This research examined parents' restriction of children's peer relationships in the United States and China. American and Chinese children (N = 934; M[subscript age] = 12.67 years) reported on their parents' peer restriction (e.g., limiting children's time with peers) and their behavioral and psychological adjustment 3 times over a year.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Parenting Styles, Predictor Variables
Within-Family Dyadic Patterns of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Information Management
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Rote, Wendy M.; Smetana, Judith G. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
In line with increasing calls for within-family analyses of monitoring processes, this study examined profiles of (combined) adolescent information management strategies and parent knowledge-gathering strategies among 174 families with middle adolescents (M[subscript age] = 15.7 years; 164 mother-teen and 112 father-teen dyads). Three…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Mothers, Fathers
Implications of Chinese and American Mothers' Goals for Children's Emotional Distress
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Ng, Janice; Xiong, Yu; Qu, Yang; Cheung, Cecilia; Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Wang, Meifang; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This research examined a cultural socialization model in which differences in Chinese and American parents' goals for children foster differences in children's emotional distress via parents' responses to children's performance. Chinese and American mothers and their children (N = 397; M[subscript age] = 13.19 years) participated in a 2-wave study…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Problems, Goal Orientation, Asian Culture
The Spread of Substance Use and Delinquency between Adolescent Twins
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Laursen, Brett; Hartl, Amy C.; Vitaro, Frank; Brendgen, Mara; Dionne, Ginette; Boivin, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This investigation examines the spread of problem behaviors (substance use and delinquency) between twin siblings. A sample of 628 twins (151 male twin pairs and 163 female twin pairs) drawn from the Quebec Newborn Twin Study completed inventories describing delinquency and substance use at ages 13, 14, and 15. A 3-wave longitudinal actor-partner…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Delinquency, Adolescents, Twins
Aiming to Complete the Matrix: Eye-Movement Analysis of Processing Strategies in Children's Relational Thinking
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Chen, Zhe; Honomichl, Ryan; Kennedy, Diane; Tan, Enda – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study examines 5- to 8-year-old children's relation reasoning in solving matrix completion tasks. This study incorporates a componential analysis, an eye-tracking method, and a microgenetic approach, which together allow an investigation of the cognitive processing strategies involved in the development and learning of children's…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Analysis, Componential Analysis, Cognitive Processes
Community Violence, Family Conflict, and Preschoolers' Socioemotional Functioning
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Farver, Jo Ann M.; Xu, Yiyuan; Eppe, Stefanie; Fernandez, Alicia; Schwartz, David – Developmental Psychology, 2005
This study examined the relations among family conflict, community violence, and young children's socioemotional functioning and explored how children's social cognition and mothers' psychological functioning may mediate the outcomes associated with this exposure. Mothers of 431 Head Start preschoolers completed questionnaires about their family…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Conflict, Interpersonal Competence, Social Cognition