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Peer reviewedWenger, Sherry; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1980
Examines the effects of the child's age and the circumstances surrounding the child's aggression, as well as the sex of parent and child, in determining parents' judgments of children's aggressive behavior. Subjects were 160 upper-middle-class parents (80 pairs of mothers and fathers). (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Children
Peer reviewedEvans, E. Margaret – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Examined 5- to 12-year-olds' emerging understanding of the origins of species in two studies. Demonstrated systematic developmental pattern in children's explanations for biological origins. Found age-related shifts from mixed creationist and spontaneous generationist explanations, to exclusive creationism, and finally to evolutionist or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedPeterson, Lizette; Reaven, Noah – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1984
Reports results of questionnaires and interviews conducted with 123 parents (mostly mothers) of preschool, first-grade, and sixth-grade children. Finds that parental limitations on children's altruism are based on cogent rationales and are a direct function of the situational cost involved and the age and familiarity of the recipient. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Altruism, Grade 1, Grade 6
Peer reviewedPomerantz, Eva M.; Eaton, Missa Murry – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Examined second- through fifth-graders' conceptions of parental control. Found that with grade, children increasingly viewed parental helping, monitoring, and decision-making as indicating child incompetence. Found older children viewed parental praising as motivated by parents' desires to promote competence, and children's conceptions of parental…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Competence
Peer reviewedChapell, Mark S.; Overton, Willis – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998
Examined deductive reasoning in 120 adolescents and relationship of parental style and test anxiety to reasoning performance. Found that tenth and twelfth graders demonstrated more advanced reasoning than sixth graders. Authoritative parenting was related to more advanced reasoning performance and lower test anxiety than nonauthoritative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Rearing, Deduction
