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Streit, Cara; Carlo, Gustavo; Ispa, Jean M.; Palermo, Francisco – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study examined the early parenting and temperament determinants of children's antisocial and positive behaviors in a low-income, diverse ethno-racial sample. Participants were from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, which included 960 European American (initial M age = 15.00 months; 51.2% female) and 880 African…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, African Americans
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Raval, Vaishali V.; Raval, Pratiksha H.; Salvina, Jennifer M.; Wilson, Stephanie L.; Writer, Sharon – Social Development, 2013
Parent responses to children's emotions vary within and across cultures. The present study compared mothers' reports of their emotional and behavioral responses in hypothetical situations depicting their children experiencing anger, sadness, or physical pain in two communities in India (traditional old city, "N" = 60; suburban middle…
Descriptors: Mothers, Socialization, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Zdzieborski, Daniel; Normand, Jackie – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This study compared reactions of mothers and fathers to the risk taking behavior of sons and daughters. Mother-father pairs (N = 52) imagined their 2-year-old boy or girl behaving in risky ways in common home situations that could, and did, result in injury. Emotional and parenting reactions to the behaviors were assessed before and after injury.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Safety
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Gage, Anastasia J.; Silvestre, Eva A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objectives: This study examined whether mothers' experience of violence was a risk factor for physical punishment. Methods: Data were derived from the nationally representative 2000 Peru Demographic and Family Health Survey. Participants were 12,601 currently married women who were living with biological children aged 0-17 years and were…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Mothers, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries
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Padilla-Walker, Laura M. – Social Development, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to examine adolescents' perceptions of mother-child interactions as correlates of adolescents' positive, negative, and guilt emotions. Two hundred thirty-four adolescents (M age = 16.39, SD = 1.17) completed measures assessing parenting practices in response to typical mother-child interactions in both positive…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Lorber, Michael F.; Smith Slep, Amy M. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Hypotheses were tested about how moment-by-moment variation in mothers' negative emotion predicts harsh and lax discipline. Mother-toddler dyads interacted in a task designed to elicit challenging child behavior. Mothers viewed videotapes of their interactions and continuously rated their experienced emotion. Harsh discipline was associated with…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Toddlers, Child Behavior, Mothers
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Lorber, Michael F.; Smith Slep, Amy M. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Hypotheses were tested about how moment-by-moment variation in mothers' negative emotion predicts harsh and lax discipline. Mother-toddler dyads interacted in a task designed to elicit challenging child behavior. Mothers viewed videotapes of their interactions and continuously rated their experienced emotion. Harsh discipline was associated with…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Toddlers, Child Behavior, Mothers
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Lorber, Michael F.; Slep, Amy M. Smith – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
Hypotheses were tested about how moment-by-moment variation in mothers' negative emotion predicts harsh and lax discipline. Mother-toddler dyads interacted in a task designed to elicit challenging child behavior. Mothers viewed videotapes of their interactions and continuously rated their experienced emotion. Harsh discipline was associated with…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Toddlers, Child Behavior, Mothers
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Lorber, Michael F.; O'Leary, Susan G. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
The present investigation was designed to evaluate whether mothers' emotion experience, autonomic reactivity, and negatively biased appraisals of their toddlers' behavior and toddlers' rates of misbehavior predicted overreactive discipline in a mediated fashion. Ninety-three community mother-toddler dyads were observed in a laboratory interaction,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Toddlers, Discipline
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Ritchie, Kathy L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Used daily telephone interviews and simulations to compare maternal behaviors and cognitions within power bouts and single acts of noncompliance. Found that the power bouts formed a special class of discipline episodes distinct from single noncompliance. Mothers reported more negative perceptions of the child and more aversion during extended…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Psychology), Discipline, Discipline Problems
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Renk, Kimberly; McKinney, Cliff; Klein, Jenny; Oliveros, Arazais – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the relationships among the childhood discipline styles experienced by 116 female college students, their perceptions of their parents, and their current functioning. Results of this study indicated that female college students' report of childhood discipline, their perceptions of their parents, and their outcomes were related…
Descriptors: College Students, Discipline, Females, Parent Child Relationship
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Durrant, Joan E.; Broberg, Anders G.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Used maternal beliefs, emotions, and experiences of Canadian and Swedish mothers to predict hypothetical physical punishment of preschoolers. Found that Canadians were more likely than Swedes to suggest physical punishment and demonstrate stronger support for spanking. Support for physical punishment and rating target misbehaviors as stable…
Descriptors: Anger, Behavior Problems, Beliefs, Child Rearing