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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Kemp, Christine J.; Albrecht, Erin C. – Social Development, 2013
Predictable patterns in early parent-child interactions may help lay the foundation for how children learn to self-regulate. The present study examined contingencies between maternal teaching and directives and child compliance in mother-child problem-solving interactions at age 3.5 and whether they predicted children's behavioral regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Control, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Compliance (Psychology)
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Lamont, Andrea; Van Horn, M. Lee – Social Development, 2013
Despite known risks associated with aberrant social skill development, there has been a relative dearth of literature on typical developmental changes in social skills over time. In this study, we examine systematic changes in social skills from kindergarten (typical age of 5-6 years) to third grade (typical age of 8-9 years), and focus on…
Descriptors: Social Development, Skill Development, Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Moran, Lyndsey R.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Zalewski, Maureen – Social Development, 2013
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Young Children
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Fahim, Cherine; Fiori, Marina; Evans, Alan C.; Perusse, Daniel – Social Development, 2012
The goal of this study is twofold: (1) to assess brain anatomical differences between children meeting diagnostic criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and healthy controls, and (2) to investigate whether morphological brain characteristics associated with ODD differ in boys and girls. Eight-year-old participants (N = 38) were scanned…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Social Behavior, Self Control, Etiology
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McCoy, Dana Charles; Raver, C. Cybele – Social Development, 2011
The present study examined the relationships between caregivers' self-reported positive and negative emotional expressiveness, observer assessments of children's emotion regulation, and teachers' reports of children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a sample of 97 primarily African American and Hispanic Head Start families. Results…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Caregivers, Preschool Children
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Engle, Jennifer M.; McElwain, Nancy L. – Social Development, 2011
Parent-reported reactions to children's negative emotions and child negative emotionality were investigated as correlates of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Children (N = 107) and their parents participated in a short-term longitudinal study of social development. Mothers and fathers independently completed questionnaires assessing…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Questionnaires, Parent Child Relationship
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Hutt, Rachel L.; Wang, Qi; Evans, Gary W. – Social Development, 2009
This study examined the relations of parent-youth agreement and disagreement during a joint problem-solving task and multi-methodological indices of socioemotional outcomes in adolescents (mean age = 13). One hundred and sixty-seven parents and their adolescent children participated. Each parent-youth pair played the interactive game "Jenga", and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Social Development, Emotional Development, Parent Child Relationship
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Moorman, Elizabeth A.; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Social Development, 2008
This research examined the role of mothers' cognitions about children's self-control in their responses to children's helplessness. Mothers and their four-year-old children (N = 109) were asked to work on a difficult task in the laboratory. Mothers' hostility and warmth as well as children's helpless (vs. mastery) behavior were coded every minute.…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Mothers, Research Methodology, Psychological Patterns
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Awong, Tsasha; Grusec, Joan E.; Sorenson, Ann – Social Development, 2008
Shortly after the birth of their infants, teenage working-class mothers were assessed on attitudes toward the need for deference to family authority (respect-based control) and anger. Their children's internalizing and externalizing problems and self-esteem were assessed approximately 12 years later. High respect-based control was linked to higher…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Family Environment, Emotional Development
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Shipman, Kimberly L.; Schneider, Renee; Fitzgerald, Monica M.; Sims, Chandler; Swisher, Lisa; Edwards, Anna – Social Development, 2007
This study investigated the socialization of children's emotion regulation in physically maltreating and non-maltreating mother-child dyads (N = 80 dyads). Mother-child dyads participated in the parent-child emotion interaction task (Shipman & Zeman, 1999) in which they talked about emotionally-arousing situations. The PCEIT was coded for maternal…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Abuse, Mothers, Psychological Patterns
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Rodriguez, Monica L.; Ayduk, Ozlem; Aber, J. Lawrence; Mischel, Walter; Sethi, Anita; Shoda, Yuichi – Social Development, 2005
A prospective study examined the effects of maternal unresponsivity and of toddlers' own negative affect on the child's subsequent ability to use effective attentional control strategies in preschool. Maternal and child behaviors were measured in situations that varied in the level of stress to test the hypothesis that behaviors in high stress…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Self Control
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Kerns, Kathryn A.; Tomich, Patricia L.; Kim, Patricia – Social Development, 2006
Two studies addressed the normative aspects of attachments to mothers and fathers in middle childhood. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons, we tested the hypothesis that children show no changes in perceptions of availability of attachment figures across the later middle childhood years, but do utilize attachment figures less…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Adjustment, Elementary School Students, Parent Child Relationship