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Peer reviewedShell, Rita M.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Child Development, 1996
Examined the reactions of 201 elementary school children to direct and indirect help and the moderating effects of grade, understanding of personality, and sex on children's reaction to aid. Results indicated that children high in the understanding of consistency of personality were more autonomous in the indirect than the direct help condition.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dependency (Personality)
Peer reviewedBrody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Observed parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and family problem solving, and obtained parent-reported child temperament assessments. Found that links among mother-older child relationship quality, father-older child relationship quality, and sibling relationship quality were moderated by the older sibling's temperament. The…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Personality
Peer reviewedFrankel, Karen A.; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 1990
Attempted to replicate findings of a previous study which found that mother-toddler interaction during problem solving was related to the child's prior attachment security. Examined the relationship between problem-solving interactions on the one hand, and mother-child interactions at home and infant temperament on the other. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedRueter, Martha A.; Conger, Rand D. – Child Development, 1995
Examined the relationship between individual interactional style, individual problem-solving behavior, and family problem-solving effectiveness in 431 intact rural families with 2 children, 1 of whom was in seventh grade. Results indicated that a hostile interactional style directly predicted destructive problem-solving behavior, whereas a warm…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Family Relationship, Hostility
Peer reviewedMcGillicuddy-De Lisi, Ann V.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Investigated how children's decisions about allocating money to story characters were affected by the relationship (friends versus strangers) among the characters. Children's rationales for their decisions showed that equality was the most salient principle for decisions at all ages and that older children provided rationales based on benevolence…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
