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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
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Pace, Ugo; Zappulla, Carla – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined the relationship of emotional detachment from parents, parental support, and problem behaviors and focused on the unique and common contribution that detachment and parental support made to internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems. A total of 461 young adolescents, 13 to 14 years old ("M" = 13.4;…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Parent Role, Foreign Countries
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Porfeli, Erik; Ferrari, Lea; Nota, Laura – Journal of Career Development, 2013
This study asserts a theoretical model of academic and work socialization within the family setting. The presumed associations between parents' work valences, children's work valences and valence perceptions, and children's academic interest and achievement are tested. The results suggest that children's perceptions of parents mediate the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Academic Achievement, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship
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Lindgren, Eva; Munoz, Carmen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
The project Early Language Learning in Europe (ELLiE) has studied the longitudinal effects of an early foreign language (FL) start in seven European contexts. This article presents a sub-study of ELLiE that investigates the impact of out-of-school factors on learners' listening and reading skills in year four of formal FL instruction. More…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Interaction
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Kiesner, Jeff; Poulin, Francois; Dishion, Thomas J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
The influence of using substances with friends on future individual use was examined in the context of parental monitoring rules and the ecology of peer activities. A 1-year longitudinal study design included a combined sample of North Italian and French Canadian adolescents (N = 285, 53% girls, M = 14.25 years). Data analyses were conducted using…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, French Canadians, Adolescents, Ecology
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Ciairano, Silvia; Kliewer, Wendy; Bonino, Silvia; Bosma, Harke Anne – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
The main and interactive effects of parental behavioral control and parental support on adolescent adjustment were examined with students ages 15-19 in Italy (N = 391, 59.1% male) and The Netherlands (N = 373, 45.3% male). In general, parental support was associated with better adjustment and parental control was associated with worse adjustment.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles
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Vieno, Alessio; Nation, Maury; Perkins, Douglas D.; Santinello, Massimo – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study assessed the links between civic participation and adolescent behavior problems (bullying, physical fighting, and alcohol and tobacco use), and whether civic engagement could be a moderator of the negative effects of parent/family detachment. Participants were 7,097 11-, 13-, and 15-year-olds (48.6% girls) in a region of Northern Italy.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Attitudes
Verna, Marilyn Ann; Spina, Maria – 2002
This study investigated factors that contribute to the mathematics and reading achievement of students in Italy. The Walburg Productivity Model (H. Walburg, 1984) served as a framework to analyze the interconnections among family processes, family structure, and socioeconomic status. Campbells Differential Socialization Paradigm (J. Campbell,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Achievement