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Continuity and Change in Parents' Child-rearing Practices.
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Roberts, Gail C.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Compares the responses of 65 mothers and 42 fathers who completed the Child Rearing Practices Report first when their child was three years old and again at 12 years. Despite many changes in the families, considerable continuity in childrearing orientations was shown. Shifts in emphasis coincided with developmentally appropriate areas for change.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Family Structure, Fathers
The Structure of Temperamental Fear and Pleasure in Infants: A Psychometric Perspective.
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Goldsmith, H. Hill; Campos, Joseph J. – Child Development, 1990
Temperament of nine-month olds was assessed by means of questionnaires and two laboratory visits. Mothers' and fathers' agreement on questionnaire scales was low, and their factor structures differed. In laboratory measures, fearfulness and pleasure showed cross-situation generality, short-term stability, and convergence with questionnaire scales.…
Descriptors: Fathers, Fear, Infant Behavior, Infants
Patterns of Interaction in Family Relationships and the Development of Identity Exploration in Adolescence.
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Grotevant, Harold D.; Cooper, Catherine R. – Child Development, 1985
Developed a model of individuation in family relationships focused on communicative processes. Expressions of four dimensions of the model (self-esteem, separateness, permeability, and mutuality) were predicted to be positively associated with identity exploration in adolescents. Analysis of observations of families in a Family Interaction Task…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Environment, Family Relationship, Fathers