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Differential Parenting and Children's Behavioral Problems: Curvilinear Associations and Mother-Father Combined Effects
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Meunier, Jean Christophe; Bisceglia, Rossana; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
In this study the associations between mothers' and fathers' differential parenting and children's oppositional and emotional problems were examined. A curvilinear relationship between differential parenting and children's outcomes was hypothesized, as well as the combined effect of mothers' and fathers' parenting. Data came from a community…
Descriptors: Children, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
Emotion-Related Parenting Styles (ERPS): A Short Form for Measuring Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy
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Paterson, Ashley D.; Babb, Kimberley A.; Camodeca, Amy; Goodwin, Jacqueline; Hakim-Larson, Julie; Voelker, Sylvia; Gragg, Marcia – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: Parents' meta-emotion philosophy guides their approach to teaching their children about emotions (J. M. Gottman, L. F. Katz, & C. Hooven, 1997) and is measured with the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles Self-Test-Likert (Gottman et al., 1997, modified by J. Hakim-Larson, A. Parker, C. Lee, J. Goodwin, & S. Voelker, 2006).…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Developmental Disabilities, Child Rearing, Psychometrics
Cultural Differences in the Relationship between Parenting and Children's Behavior
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Ho, Caroline; Bluestein, Deborah N.; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Parent and teacher data for 14,990 children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were used in multilevel analyses to examine the relationship between ethnicity, children's aggression and emotional problems, and parenting. Using parent and teacher report, relationships between ethnicity and child behavior were present but…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Emotional Problems, Aggression, Child Rearing
Early Adolescent Attachment to Parents, Emotional Problems, and Teacher-Academic Worries about the Middle School Transition
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Poitras, Sarah-Caroline; Drouin, Evelyne – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
This study examines how attachment to mother and father predicts worries about academic demands and relationships with teachers generated by the transition from elementary to middle school through its contribution to adolescents' emotional problems (depression and anxiety). The study sample includes 626 young adolescents (289 boys and 337 girls)…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Middle Schools, Mothers, Structural Equation Models
Nonmaternal Care in Infancy and Emotional/Behavioral Difficulties at 4 Years Old: Moderation by Family Risk Characteristics
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Cote, Sylvana M.; Borge, Anne I.; Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Rutter, Michael; Tremblay, Richard E. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors examined the role of familial risk and child characteristics in the association between the type of child care in infancy (maternal care [MC]) versus nonmaternal care [NMC]) and emotional/behavioral difficulties at 4 years old. Canadian families (N=1,358) with children between 1 and 12 months old were followed over 4 years. Family…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Aggression, Family Characteristics, Infants
Characteristics of Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse.
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Fischer, Donald G.; McDonald, Wendy L. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1998
A study of 1037 cases of child sexual abuse in Canada found: (1) earlier onset, longer duration, higher level of intrusion, and greater physical and emotional injury for intrafamilial victims; (2) less use of force or enticements by intrafamilial offenders; and (3) more convictions and longer sentences for intrafamilial offenders. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Court Litigation, Emotional Problems, Family Problems
Parental Psychological and Emotional Abuse.
Morris, Joan – School Guidance Worker, 1979
Psychological abuse hits a child from many different sources. It is also the most difficult to counter. The counselor is in a delicate position when faced with the child she/he knows is being harmed by his parents. These students need help. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems