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Patterns of Compliance from Eighteen to Thirty Months of Age.
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Schneider-Rosen, Karen; Wenz-Gross, Melodie – Child Development, 1990
Results suggest that the most adaptive course of action for children may be to be responsive to environmental demands and interpersonal constraints. In the study, the patterns of compliance of 31 children of 18 months, 32 children of 24 months, and 36 children of 30 months, and their mothers and fathers were observed in five situations. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Compliance (Psychology), Fathers
Parental Absence and Sex-Role Development: A Meta-Analysis.
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Stevenson, Michael R.; Black, Kathryn N. – Child Development, 1988
Differences between father-absent and father-present samples were not large. Although study quality was not the best predictor of outcome, the best-quality studies produced nonsignificant estimates of effect size. Most effect-size estimates were less than .5; many were much smaller. (RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
Toddler Development in the Family: Impact of Father Involvement and Parenting Characteristics.
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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
Parents' Attributions for Their Children's Behavior.
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Miller, Scott A. – Child Development, 1995
Reviews research on the determinants and the effects of parents' attributions. The evidence suggests that parents do form attributions for their children's behavior; these attributions vary in predictable ways across judges (mothers versus fathers), targets (age or sex of child), and behavior outcomes (positive or negative); and attributions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory
Linking Family Hardship to Children's Lives.
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Elder, Gen H., Jr.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Used newly developed codes for parenting behavior during the Great Depression reported in the Oakland Growth Study. Results indicated that economic hardship adversely influenced the psychosocial well-being of adolescent girls, but not boys, by increasing the rejecting behavior of fathers. This effect was particularly strong for unattractive girls.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Fathers
Developmental Patterns in Security of Attachment to Mother and Father in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: Associations with Peer Relations.
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Lieberman, Melissa; Doyle, Anna-Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy – Child Development, 1999
Examined developmental differences in parental availability and child dependency in late childhood and early adolescence and their association with peer relations. Found that children's perceptions of mother's availability and boys' perceptions of father's availability did not change with age. Dependency decreased with age. Positive friendship…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Child Development
Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century.
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Cabrera, Natasha J.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Bradley, Robert H.; Hofferth, Sandra; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2000
Discusses how social trends changed father involvement and family life, and in turn affected children's and fathers' developmental trajectories. Examines how today's children will construct expectations about fathers' and mothers' roles. Maintains that a life-span approach considers the broader sociohistorical context in which fatherhood develops.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Context Effect