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Out of Balance? Positivity-Negativity Ratios in Couples' Interaction Impact Child Adjustment
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Zemp, Martina; Johnson, Matthew D.; Bodenmann, Guy – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Parental conflict is a well-established predictor of child maladjustment. Most research, however, has not considered how the couple's positivity-negativity interaction ratio (i.e., the ability to compensate for negative behaviors with positive) may be linked with child adjustment. We examined interparental positivity-negativity interaction ratios…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
The Contributions of Propensity, Delinquent Peers, Low Parental Supervision, and Empathy to the Emergence of Antisocial Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence: Testing Developmental Path Models Combining Psychological- and Sociological-Criminological Approaches
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Wallner, Susanne; Stemmler, Mark; Reinecke, Jost – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2020
Psychological- and sociological-criminological research refers to, for example, cumulative risk factor models (e.g., Lösel & Bender, 2003) and Situational Action Theory (SAT; e.g., Wikström, 2006). The German longitudinal study "Chances and Risks in the Life Course" (research project A2, Collaborative Research Center 882; e.g.,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, At Risk Persons
Parental Influences on the Prevalence and Development of Child Aggressiveness
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Wahl, Klaus; Metzner, Cornelia – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2012
The development of aggressiveness between 5 and 17 years and some parental influences on this development were analyzed using data from Germany. International studies have shown a "camel humps" curve, i.e., a peak of aggression of children (primarily boys) between 2 and 4 years and a second peak of antisocial or aggressive behavior of…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Daughters, Parenting Styles
Punishment or Self-Discipline? Early Roots of Reform
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Kreisle, Beate – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2010
Pioneers in work with troubled children sought, with mixed results, to replace coercive discipline with democratic self-governance. In 1927, law student Clara Liepmann wrote her doctoral dissertation on the history of self-governance in correctional settings in Europe and the United States. Her father, Moritz Liepmann, was a law school professor…
Descriptors: Discipline, Antisocial Behavior, Correctional Institutions, Doctoral Dissertations
Interpersonal Coping among Boys with ADHD
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Hampel, Petra; Manhal, Simone; Roos, Thomas; Desman, Christiane – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
Objective: The authors investigate self-reported coping with interpersonal stressors among boys with and without ADHD in two studies and provide initial evidence for effects of different subgroups of ADHD on coping in Study 2. Method: In Study 1, 20 Austrian adolescents with ADHD were compared to 20 healthy controls. In Study 2, 44 German children…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Attention Deficit Disorders, Adolescents, Coping
The Routledge International Companion to Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
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Cole, Ted, Ed.; Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Visser, John, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the limits to inclusion for children with special…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Disorders