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Laible, Deborah; Murphy, Tia Panfile; Augustine, Mairin – Social Development, 2013
Although there is some evidence from cross-sectional studies that reminiscing is an important context in which children construct socioemotional understanding, longitudinal evidence is lacking. The goal of this study was to examine longitudinally the links between the quality of reminiscing at 42 months and children's subsequent socioemotional…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Cook, Emily C.; Buehler, Cheryl; Fletcher, Anne C. – Social Development, 2012
This study examined the prospective relationship between negative parenting behaviors and adolescents' friendship competence in a community sample of 416 two-parent families in the Southeastern USA. Adolescents' externalizing problems and their emotional insecurity with parents were examined as mediators. Parents' psychological control was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Correlation, Friendship
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Nelson, Jackie A.; Leerkes, Esther M.; Perry, Nicole B.; O'Brien, Marion; Calkins, Susan D.; Marcovitch, Stuart – Social Development, 2013
The current study examines whether the relation between mothers' responses to their children's negative emotions and teachers' reports of children's academic performance and social-emotional competence are similar or different for European-American and African-American families. Two hundred mothers (137 European-American, 63 African-American)…
Descriptors: Whites, African Americans, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
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Bengtsson, Hans; Arvidsson, Asa – Social Development, 2011
A sample of 209 children was followed longitudinally to examine the impact of growing perspective-taking skills on positive and negative emotionality in middle and late childhood. Perspective-taking skills were assessed through interviews. Teachers rated children's emotional reactivity and capacity to regain a neutral state following emotional…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Children, Perspective Taking, Longitudinal Studies
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Laible, Deborah – Social Development, 2011
The purpose of the study was to examine the differential relations between mother-child reminiscing about a positive emotional event vs. a negative emotional event and attachment security, family climate, and young children's socioemotional development. Fifty preschool children (M age = 50.69 months, SD = 4.64) and their mothers completed two…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Hessler, Danielle M.; Annest, Amalia – Social Development, 2007
This article examined emotion competence in children exposed to domestic violence (DV). It also examined the hypothesis that children's emotional competence mediates relations between DV and children's later difficulties with peers and behavioral adjustment. DV was assessed when children were at the age of five, emotional competence was assessed…
Descriptors: Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Problems, Family Violence
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Stocker, Clare M.; Richmond, Melissa K.; Rhoades, Galena K.; Kiang, Lisa – Social Development, 2007
This study examined associations between parents' emotion coaching and emotional expressiveness, and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptoms. The sample included 131 16-year-olds and their mothers and fathers. Adolescents completed an open-ended interview about their parents' emotion coaching. Adolescents rated parents' negative…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Adolescents, Fathers
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Michalik, Nicole M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Ladd, Becky; Thompson, Marilyn; Valiente, Carlos – Social Development, 2007
Concurrent and longitudinal relations among parental emotional expressivity, children's sympathy and children's prosocial behavior were assessed with correlations and structural equation modeling when the children were 55-97 months old (N = 214; M age = 73 months, SD = 9.59) and eight years later (N = 130; ages 150-195 months old, M = 171 months,…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Females, Structural Equation Models, Adolescents
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Dougherty, Lea R. – Social Development, 2006
Over the last 15 years, the role of emotions in children's peer relations has received greater attention. The purpose of the meta-analytic review was to determine the magnitude of the relation between negative emotionality (NE) and positive emotionality (PE) and social status. Based on 54 independent samples, the overall effect size for the…
Descriptors: Social Status, Peer Relationship, Effect Size, Psychological Patterns
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Goodvin, Rebecca; Carlo, Gustavo; Torquati, Julia – Social Development, 2006
This study examined the additive and interactive effects of children's trait vicarious emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression on children's use of coping strategies. Ninety-five children (mean age = 5.87 years) and their mothers and teachers participated in the study. The mothers reported on their own negative emotion…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Coping, Parent Child Relationship
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Social Development, 2005
Seventy-six fourth-grade children and their parents participated in a study of the linkages among parental control and positive affect, children's display rule use, and children's social competence with peers. Using observational measures of parental behavior and children's display rule use, it was found that parental positive affect and control…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence