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Tracing the Cascade of Children's Insecurity in the Interparental Relationship: The Role of Stage-Salient Tasks
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Davies, Patrick T.; Manning, Liviah G.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether children’s difficulties with stage-salient tasks served as an explanatory mechanism in the pathway between their insecurity in the interparental relationship and their disruptive behavior problems. Using a multimethod, multi-informant design, 201 two-year-old children and their mothers participated in 3 annual…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models
Children's and Adolescents' Understanding of Rights: Balancing Nurturance and Self-Determination.
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Ruck, Martin D.; Abramovitch, Rona; Keating, Daniel P. – Child Development, 1998
Used hypothetical vignettes to examine the development of children's and adolescents' understanding of nurturance and self-determination rights. Found that 8- to 12-year-olds were significantly less likely than 14- to 16-year-olds to identify nurturance and self-determination rights as salient. Reasoning about self-determination rights, but not…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Individual Power
Japanese Mothers' Views of Young Children's Areas of Personal Discretion
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Yamada, Hiroyuki – Child Development, 2004
Sixty-four Japanese mothers of 3- to 6-year-olds were interviewed concerning their conceptions of children's areas of personal control. Mothers granted children choices regarding recreational activities, clothes, and friends to foster autonomy and competence, but they set limits around daily routines, recreational activities, and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Gender Differences, Mothers, Foreign Countries