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Peer reviewedHeinicke, Christoph M.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Findings support the general hypothesis that the nature of parent/infant interaction and infant development assessed at 12 months is anticipated by a complex pattern of variables, beginning with the parents' characteristics before the birth of their first child and extending via parent/infant and infant behavior throughout the first year of life.…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Infant Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedBergan, John R.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
A structural analysis of skills taught by 49 parents to their preschool children indicated that individual characteristics affect initial prerequisite-skill performance directly and superordinate-skill learning indirectly through their impact on prerequisite skills. (JMB)
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Parents, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedDeal, James E.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that parental agreement scores rarely added any information not already provided by parental effectiveness scores. A Q-factor analysis revealed that the agreement score represented agreement to a standard of good parenting. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Individual Characteristics, Marriage
Peer reviewedHeilbrun, Alfred B., Jr.; Landauer, Stephen P. – Child Development, 1977
Presents a study of college students' perceptions of parental characteristics. Examines differences in the subjects' perceptions of their mother as opposed to their father. Also examines differences in parent descriptions by sons as opposed to those of daughters. (JMB)
Descriptors: College Students, Individual Characteristics, Parents, Research
Peer reviewedBaumrind, Diana – Child Development, 1982
Using extensive, multifaceted observational and interview data from the Family Socialization and Developmental Competence Project (FSP), this paper examines the claims that androgynes, by comparison with sex-typed individuals, are more effective persons and parents. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Authoritarianism, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedGarbarino, James; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Examines parental, adolescent, and family system characteristics that place a family at risk of destructive parent/child relations during the child's adolescence. Maladjusted youth from 10 through 16 years of age and both of their parents were visited at home by a team of researchers, who administered a battery of questionnaire, interview, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Emotional Problems, Family Characteristics
Direct linkHill, Nancy E.; Castellino, Domini R.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Nowlin, Patrick; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Child Development, 2004
A longitudinal model of parent academic involvement, behavioral problems, achievement, and aspirations was examined for 463 adolescents, followed from 7th (approximately 12 years old) through 11th (approximately 16 years old) grades. Parent academic involvement in 7th grade was negatively related to 8th-grade behavioral problems and positively…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary Education, Parents, Grade Point Average
