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Peer reviewedRebelsky, Freda; Hanks, Cheryl – Child Development, 1971
The data from this study shows that fathers spend little time vocalizing to their infants and that the number of interactions varies by time of day, age and sex of infant and the kind of activity occurring during the interaction. (Author/WY)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Fathers, Infants, Parent Role
Peer reviewedWeisz, John R. – Child Development, 1980
Letters from 249 children, 7 to 17 years of age, on "Why my Mom is the greatest" were analyzed for age and sex differences in the maternal behaviors selected for positive evaluation. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedDamon, William – Child Development, 1980
Thirty-four boys and girls between the ages of four and nine were interviewed on their conceptions of positive justice and parental authority and were then reinterviewed one and two years later. Results suggested that stagelike development in children's social reasoning proceeds gradually, with important continuities in children's social cognition…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Change, Children, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedSmetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1988
Children ranging from fifth to twelfth grade, and their parents, were presented with items pertaining to family transgressions and asked to judge the legitimacy of parental jurisdiction, justify its wrongness or permissibility, and assess its contingency on parental authority. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedGuberman, Steven R. – Child Development, 1996
Studied the sociocultural context in which Brazilian children acquire and use everyday mathematics in terms of currency use. Participants were 105 children, ages 4 to 11, and their parents. Found decreased use of currency with increasing age. Children also used currency to aid their problem solving and progressed from global estimates to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedBranch, Curtis W.; Newcombe, Nora – Child Development, 1986
To explore the developmental course of racial attitudes, a study assesed racial attitudes in Black children aged four- to five-years and six- to seven-years-old, focusing on reasons for age-related changes in children's attitudes as well as the role of parents in the development of children's attitudes. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Black Attitudes
Peer reviewedDamast, Amy Melstein; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined the types of play mothers introduce in direct response to their toddlers' play and the actual maternal play behaviors. Findings suggested that mothers tend to play with their toddlers in ways that might promote their children's development and that mothers with more knowledge about play development provide their children with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Child Behavior, Child Development
Peer reviewedChase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the parenting practices in 99 young, low-income, African American multigenerational families through home-based observations of grandmothers, young mothers, and the mothers' 3-year-old children. Residence with grandmothers was found to have negative consequences on the quality of both mothers' and grandmothers' parenting. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing
Peer reviewedFinnegan, Regina A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Developed measures of preoccupied and avoidant coping to determine whether the measures concurrently relate to adjustment problems. Subjects were 229 children from third through seventh grades. Results indicated that preoccupied and avoidant coping with the mother can contribute to maladjustment in other arenas. Children's adjustment with peers…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
