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Peer reviewedArnold, David Harvey; McWilliams, Lorette; Arnold, Elizabeth Harvey – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Used least squares analysis and simultaneous structural equation modeling to examine the bidirectional relationship between day-care teachers' lax, overreactive discipline and young children's behavior problems. Found that teachers' laxness strongly influenced child misbehavior and child misbehavior influenced teachers' overreactivity and laxness.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Causal Models, Day Care, Discipline
