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Perceived Parental Antecedents of Internal, Powerful Others, and Chance Locus of Control Orientations
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Levenson, Hanna – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Subjects who reported that their parents used more punishing- and controlling-type behaviors were found to have greater expectations of control by powerful others, while subjects who viewed their parents as using unpredictable standards had stronger chance orientations. (ST)
Descriptors: College Students, Locus of Control, Parent Influence, Personality Development
Some Determinants of Children's Self-Reward Behavior after Exposure to Discrepant Reward Criteria
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Stouwie, Roger J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Achievement, Elementary School Students, Examiners, Personality Development
Early Temperamental Antecedents of Adult Type A Behaviors.
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Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Data for this study of 108 young adults from the New York Longitudinal Study include measures of temperament derived from two sources: interviews conducted with subjects' mothers when the children were 3 and 4 years of age and measures of Type A behavior derived from interviews with the subjects during young adulthood. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Interviews, Personality Development, Personality Studies
Psychosocial Development during the Adult Years: Age and Cohort Comparisons.
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Whitbourne, Susan Krauss; Waterman, Alan S. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
A partial sequential design was used to study personality development over a 10-year-period. Data on the Inventory of Psychosocial Development were collected from: a sample of college students in 1966; the same sample as alumni in 1976; and a sample of undergraduates in 1976. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age, Cohort Analysis
Gender Differences in Emotional Expressivity and Self-Regulation during Early Infancy.
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Weinberg, M. Katherine; Tronick, Edward Z.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Olson, Karen L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Evaluated gender differences in infant and maternal emotional expressivity and regulation with 6-month-old infants and their mothers, using Tronick's face-to-face still-face model. Found that maternal affect, matching, rate of change between matching and mismatching states, and synchrony in the play preceding the still face differentially mediated…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Facial Expressions, Infants
Sibling Deidentification
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Schachter, Frances Fuchs; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Reports study of possible determinants of sibling deidentification, or judgments of being different from one's sibling. Subjects were 383 university students from two-, and three-child families. (MS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Birth Order, College Students, Personality Development
Human Figure Drawings by Normal Children: A Longitudinal Study of Perceptual-Cognitive and Personality Development
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Laosa, Luis M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Results argue against the too frequent use of human figure drawings as a single, stable, and accurate measure of intellectual ability. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Freehand Drawing, Human Body, Intelligence
Ego Identity, Intimacy, Sex Role Orientation, and Gender.
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Schiedel, Don G.; Marcia, James E. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Male and female college students were assessed on measures of ego identity development, intimacy development, and sex role orientation. For both males and females, identity was related to masculinity; also, there were more high-intimacy females than males. This low identity-high intimacy finding in women is discussed with respect to proposed…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Femininity, Identification (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship
Father Absence and Conscience Development
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Hoffman, Martin L. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Father-absent and father-present seveth graders were compared on moral attributes and overt aggression. Some evidence suggests that some but not all of the effects of father absence are attributable to the lack of a paternal model. Effects may be mediated in part by changes in the mother's child-rearing pattern. (NH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Fatherless Family, Fathers, Grade 7
Development of Personal Space Schemata Among Japanese Children
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Lerner, Richard M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Image, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education
Age Differences in Personality Across the Adult Life Span: Parallels in Five Cultures.
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McCrae, Robert R.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Administered translations of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory to adults in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and South Korea. Found declines in neuroticism, extraversion and openness, and increases in agreeableness and conscientiousness age for both men and women. Results support hypothesis that age differences reflect universal maturational…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences