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White Parents' Racial Socialization during a Guided Discussion Predicts Declines in White Children's Pro-White Biases
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Sylvia Perry; Deborah J. Wu; Jamie L. Abaied; Allison L. Skinner-Dorkenoo; Sirenia Sanchez; Sara F. Waters; Adilene Osnaya – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Although parent-child conversations about race are recommended to curb White U.S. children's racial biases, little work has tested their influence. We designed a guided racism discussion task for U.S. White parents and their 8-12-year-old White children. We explored whether children's and parents' (a) pro-White implicit biases changed pre to…
Descriptors: Socialization, Whites, Racism, Parent Child Relationship
Developmental Antecedents of Adherence to Masculinity Norms: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study of Urban Chinese Families
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Rui Yang; Theodore E. A. Waters; Yufei Gu; Niobe Way; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Xinyin Chen; Guangzhen Zhang; Huihua Deng – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A growing body of literature shows that adherence to some aspects of Western masculinity norms, including the suppression of emotional vulnerability, avoidance of seeking support from others, and exaggerated physical toughness, is associated with poorer psychological and social outcomes. While existing research suggests that parental gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Urban Areas, Masculinity
Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Child Prosocial Behavior: Developmental Transactions across the Transition to Adolescence in Nine Countries, Mothers and Fathers, and Girls and Boys
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
Type A Behavior and Aspirations: A Study of Parents' and Children's Goal Setting.
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Kliewer, Wendy; Weidner, Gerdi – Developmental Psychology, 1987
A study investigated early aspects of Type A behavior by assessing children's goal setting and parents' aspirations for their children. Teachers of 73 fourth through sixth grade children rated them for Type A behavior. A replication study of parental aspiration findings was conducted. Results show fathers may strongly influence development of Type…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavior Rating Scales, Goal Orientation, Intermediate Grades
Like Father, Like Son? Predicting Male Adolescents' Adjustment from Parents' Distress and Self-Restraint.
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D'Angelo, Lori L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Mothers' and fathers' subjective distress and self-restraint when their sons were preadolescents were related to 14 measures of sons' outcomes 4 years later. Subjects were 82 adolescent boys. Sons of fathers prone to low self-restraint were uniformly found to have subsequent difficulties across domains, including poor academic achievement, poor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Problems
A Performance Model for Academic Achievement in Early Adolescent Boys.
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DeBaryshe, Barbara D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
This study followed 206 adolescent boys and their families from the fourth through eighth grade to test a model for conduct-related school failure. Results indicated that low parental academic achievement was associated with ineffective discipline practices and child antisocial behavior in the sixth grade and that ineffective discipline had a…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Discipline
Family, School, and Behavioral Antecedents to Early Adolescent Involvement with Antisocial Peers.
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Dishion, T. J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Compared early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers and boys' experiences at age 10. Poor parental discipline and monitoring, peer rejection, and academic failure at age 10 predicted involvement with antisocial peers at age 12. Continuity between boys' antisocial behavior and peer contact at ages 10 and 12 was found. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Discipline
Family Patterns of Moral Judgment during Adolescence and Early Adulthood.
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Speicher, Betsy – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A longitudinal study of family patterns of moral reasoning compared relationships between parent and offspring reasoning from early adolescence to adulthood. Consistent patterns were found. During adolescence, parental judgment correlated to offspring reasoning but more so for girls than boys; among young adults, fathers' judgment and education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Sectional Studies, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Attitudes