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Mother-Adolescent Conflict: Stability, Change, and Relations with Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems
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Hofer, Claire; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Morris, Amanda S.; Gershoff, Elizabeth; Valiente, Carlos; Kupfer, Anne; Eggum, Natalie D. – Social Development, 2013
Stability and change in mother-adolescent conflict reactions (CRs) and the prediction of CRs from adolescents' earlier behavior problems (and vice versa) were examined with 131 mothers and their adolescents (63 boys). Dyads engaged in a 6-min conflict discussion twice, 2 years apart ["M" age was 13 at Time 1 (T1)]. Non-verbal expressive…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Behavior Problems, Adolescents
Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support during Interactions with Toddlers: The Role of Child Temperament
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Bryan, Amy E.; Dix, Theodore – Social Development, 2009
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14-27 month-old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three…
Descriptors: Mothers, Childhood Interests, Personality Traits, Parent Child Relationship
Relational and Individual Resources as Predictors of Empathy in Early Childhood
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Moreno, Amanda J.; Klute, Mary M.; Robinson, JoAnn L. – Social Development, 2008
The goal of this study was to examine children's cognitive and language development and social engagement of mother as mediators of the relationship between maternal emotional availability at 15 months and children's empathy at the ages of two and four. Participants were 661 low-income, ethnically diverse mother-child dyads participating in a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Home Visits, Parent Child Relationship, Empathy
Empathy and Emotional Responsiveness in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents
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Robinson, Ross; Roberts, William L.; Strayer, Janet; Koopman, Ray – Social Development, 2007
Two groups of male adolescents, incarcerated young offenders (N = 64, mean age = 16.3 years) and a comparison group of community youth (N = 60; mean age = 16.6 years), were administered the Empathy Continuum (measuring cognitive-affective responses to persons in emotionally evocative videotaped vignettes) and questionnaire measures of empathy,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Anxiety
Children's Self-Esteem and Moral Self: Links to Parent-Child Conversations Regarding Emotion
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Reese, Elaine; Bird, Amy; Tripp, Gail – Social Development, 2007
The current study has two aims: (1) to examine associations between the emotional content of parent-child past event conversations and two aspects of children's self-concept--moral self and self-esteem; and (2) to examine the degree to which talk about past events is uniquely associated with self-concept when compared with talk about ongoing…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries, Emotional Development, Parent Child Relationship
An Integrative Examination of Peer Conflict: Children's Reported Goals, Emotions, and Behaviors.
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Murphy, Bridget C.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Social Development, 2002
This study examined interrelations among 7- to 11-year-olds' typical emotions, goals, and behavior during peer conflict and the predictive value of emotions and goals for behavior. Findings indicated that children's goal friendliness during peer conflict related to low anger and high sadness intensity. Children reporting nonconstructive behavior…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Conflict