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Educating Children in Safe Environments: Assessment of a Program to Improve Parenting Practices among Parents with Children Aged 3-5 Years
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Carranza Esteban, Renzo Felipe; Mamani-Benito, Oscar; Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás; Santillán Mejía, Aida Ch.; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Mendoza Galarza, Maritza J.; Bárrig Jó, Patricia S. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Children's behavior is influenced by parenting. This study aimed to assess the effect of the Parents Raising Safe Kids (ACT) program on parenting practices among parents with children between 3 and 5 years of age. Method: The study consists of a quasi-experimental design, and it used a sample of 65 parents between the ages of 21 and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Preschool Children, Parent Education, Child Behavior
Disorganized Behavior in Adolescent-Parent Interaction: Relations to Attachment State of Mind, Partner Abuse, and Psychopathology
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Obsuth, Ingrid; Hennighausen, Katherine; Brumariu, Laura E.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Child Development, 2014
Disoriented, punitive, and caregiving/role-confused attachment behaviors are associated with psychopathology in childhood, but have not been assessed in adolescence. A total of 120 low-income late adolescents (aged 18-23 years) and parents were assessed in a conflict-resolution paradigm. Their interactions were coded with the Goal-Corrected…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Attachment Behavior, Low Income Groups, Late Adolescents
Social Problem Solving in High-Risk Mother-Child Dyads: An Intergenerational Study
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Martin, Julie P.; Stack, Dale M.; Serbin, Lisa A.; Schwartzman, Alex E.; Ledingham, Jane – Social Development, 2012
This study examined the contribution of maternal childhood histories of aggression and social withdrawal to the prediction of mother-child social problem solving in the next generation. Fifty-seven women (M = 37.32 years), previously rated (on a version of the pupil evaluation inventory) by their peers during childhood on measures of aggression…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Mothers, Children, Problem Solving
Family Correlates of Children's Social and Physical Aggression with Peers: Negative Interparental Conflict Strategies and Parenting Styles
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Underwood, Marion K.; Beron, Kurt J.; Gentsch, Joanna K.; Galperin, Mikal B.; Risser, Scott D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This investigation examines whether negative interparental conflict strategies (stonewalling, triangulation, verbal aggression, and physical aggression) and parenting styles are related to social and physical aggression with peers for children followed longitudinally from age 9 to 10 (N = 256). Parents reported on negative conflict strategies and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles
Two-Years-Old Social Competence.
Adcock, Don; Segal, Marilyn – 1979
This guide for parents discusses social competence in 2-year-old children, drawing upon anecdotal data to provide a sampling of 2-year-old children's social behavior and their parents' child rearing techniques. The data were collected from questionnaires, telephone interviews, and home visits in a 12-month study of the interactions of 86…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children, Conflict Resolution
Enhancing Self-Esteem. Third Edition.
Carlock, C. Jesse, Ed. – 1999
Self esteem has been a buzzword in the 1990s but what exactly is self esteem? How is it formed? Can self esteem be raised? How? This book addresses these questions and includes specialized chapters on children, gender, transitions, parents' self esteem, and measurement of self esteem. Many people want to change how they feel about themselves but…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adoption, Adults