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Maternal Parenting and Teaching Strategies: Relations with Children's Academic Competence
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Bucci Liddy, Colleen M.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Diaconu-Gherasim, Loredana R.; Hunter, Dietra M. – Educational Studies, 2023
We evaluated whether maternal parenting strategies (maternal achievement-oriented control and maternal monitoring) and maternal teaching strategies are related to children's academic competence in middle childhood. We also assessed whether the relations of maternal parenting strategies with children's academic competence are mediated by maternal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement, Parents as Teachers
Children's Daily Well-Being: The Role of Mothers', Teachers', and Siblings' Autonomy Support and Psychological Control
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van der Kaap-Deeder, Jolene; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Soenens, Bart; Mabbe, Elien – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study examined the unique relations between multiple sources (i.e., mothers, teachers, and siblings) of perceived daily autonomy support and psychological control and children's basic psychological needs and well-being. During 5 consecutive days, 2 children from 154 families (M[subscript age] youngest child = 8.54 years; SD = 0.89 and…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Parent Role, Mothers
Interparental Violence, Maternal Emotional Unavailability and Children's Cortisol Functioning in Family Contexts
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Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante; Manning, Liviah G. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Our goal in the present study was to examine the specificity of pathways among interparental violence, maternal emotional unavailability, and children's cortisol reactivity to emotional stressors within interparental and parent-child relationships. The study also tested whether detrimental family contexts were associated, on average, with…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Family Violence, Parent Child Relationship, Biochemistry
Children as Caregivers: Counselors-in-Training Awareness and Comfort Related to Children's Caregiving
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Marbach, Christina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this research study was to explore counselor-in-training's awareness of, and self-reported comfort inquiring about, children's caregiving activities. The sample for this study was recruited from students enrolled in a Master's level counselor education program. There were 110 students who participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Caregivers, Caregiver Role, Children
Children's Dreams Viewed through the Prism of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
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Medcalf, Neva Ann; Hoffman, Thomas J.; Boatwright, Cassie – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
During a regular free writing time in class, children in Kindergarten through sixth grade in various areas of the city were given the writing prompt,"My dreams for the world". Writing samples were collected from an elementary school in an affluent area of the city, an elementary and a middle school in a low socio-economic area, and an…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Children, Elementary School Students, Self Actualization
Shared Understanding of Parental Differential Treatment in Families
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Kowal, Amanda K.; Krull, Jennifer L.; Kramer, Laurie – Social Development, 2006
This study examined the extent to which children and parents have concordant views about parental differential treatment (PDT) and whether such concordance is linked with variations in sibling relationship quality. Seventy-four 11- to 13-year-old children, their older siblings, and their parents were interviewed about their experiences with PDT…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Siblings, Sibling Relationship, Parent Child Relationship