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Shanahan, Lilly; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Osgood, D. Wayne – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors examined siblings' dyadic and differential experiences of parental warmth from 7 to 19 years of age. Participants were first- and second-borns from 201 families who reported on their warmth with each parent in 4 home interviews spaced over 5 years. Supporting an individual development hypothesis, multilevel model analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Siblings, Parent Child Relationship, Children
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Shanahan, Lilly; McHale, Susan M.; Osgood, Wayne; Crouter, Ann C. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors examined siblings' dyadic and differential conflict frequency with mothers and fathers from 7 to 19 years of age. Participants were first- and second-borns from 201 families who reported their conflict with each parent in 4 home interviews spaced over 5 years. Multilevel models examining trajectories of conflict frequency across age…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Siblings, Mothers, Fathers
Crouter, Ann C.; Booth, Alan – 2003
The central premise of this volume is that children bring personal qualities to their relationships with other family members that help shape family interaction, relationships, and even processes that family researchers have called "parenting." The chapters address how children's personal qualities make their mark on families in ways that may in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Family Relationship, Individual Differences
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MacDermid, Shelley; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1995
Parents' midlife concerns and the resolution of those concerns were examined for 135 families as a function of their children's adolescence and involvement in employment through analyses acknowledging the interdependence of mothers and fathers. Findings highlight the importance of taking a family perspective on the relationship between midlife and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Employment, Family Relationship, Fathers
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Tucker, Corinna Jenkins; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Family Relations, 2003
Explores mothers' and fathers' differential treatment (PDT) of their adolescent offspring and examines how siblings' personal qualities were associated with PDT. Sex was associated with parents' differential temporal involvement. Sex-typed personal qualities were related to parents' differential discipline. Both sex and sex-typed personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Birth Order
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Kim, Ji-Yeon; McHale, Susan M.; Osgood, D. Wayne; Crouter, Ann C. – Child Development, 2006
Changes in sibling intimacy and conflict were charted from middle childhood through adolescence, and family structure and relationship correlates of change were examined. Participants were mothers, fathers, and firstborn (M=11.82 years at Time 1) and secondborn (M=9.22 years) siblings from 200 White, working/middle class, 2-parent families.…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Sibling Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Gender Differences
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Crouter, Ann C.; And Others – Journal of Social Issues, 1993
Reviews longitudinal study (the Penn State Family Relationship Project) findings of relationships in 133 single-earner and dual-earner families with school-age children. The authors summarize similarities and differences in children's experiences with their parents and review these findings linking family processes and family context to children's…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Crouter, Ann C.; Head, Melissa R.; Bumpus, Matthew F.; McHale, Susan M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Levels of involvement in household work were compared for sibling pairs in 172 families. In families where mothers had high work demands, daughters performed significantly more work than sons, and younger sisters did more work than older brothers. The gap in siblings' gender role attitudes was significantly greater in families wherein girls…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daughters, Employed Parents, Family (Sociological Unit)