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Eshbaugh, Elaine M.; Peterson, Carla A.; Wall, Shavaun; Carta, Judith J.; Luze, Gayle; Swanson, Mark; Jeon, Hyun-Joo – Infant and Child Development, 2011
Warm and responsive parenting is optimal for child development, but this style of parenting may be difficult for some parents to achieve. This study examines how parents' observed warmth and their reported frequency of parent-child activities were related to children's classifications as having biological risks or a range of disability indicators.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Groups, Affective Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Driscoll, Joan Riley; Easterbrooks, M. Ann – Infant and Child Development, 2007
There is no one style of parenting which characterizes young mothers as a group. In addition, life circumstances play an important role in shaping maternal behaviour. The aim of this study was to identify patterns of maternal play behaviour and contextual (social and personal) factors associated with these different patterns. In this study, 107…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Child Rearing, Toddlers