Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
The Impact of Parent Involvement on a Child's Academic Performance |
2007 |
14384 |
Parent involvement in a child's education is consistently found to be positively associated with a child's academic performance. However, there has been little investigation of the mechanisms that explain this association. The present study examines ... |
Effortful control and internalizing behaviors: clarifying conceptualization and examining social competence as a mediating mechanism |
2008 |
1936 |
The goal of the present research was to clarify conceptual issues in the assessment of effortful control in children and to examine the role of effortful control in the development of internalizing behaviors. Effortful control was assessed through bo... |
Predictors of Hostile Attribution Bias: Child Emotional Reactivity and Parent-Child Hostile Experiences |
2008 |
6523 |
The present study aimed to expand the current conceptualized relation between hostile experiences and hostile attribution bias by examining child emotional reactivity as a moderator. In addition, the differential impact of physical and psychological ... |
Vagal regulation and children's social competence |
2005 |
1561 |
"Research on the relation between children's physiological capacity to modulate arousal and social competence has been limited and has focused primarily on brain electrical activity or the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Onl... |
The relation of early attachment with kindergarten social preference : an examination of intervening relational and behavioral processes |
2007 |
2819 |
"There has been little investigation of the relational and behavioral mechanisms that explain the association between early attachment security and later peer outcomes. The present study longitudinally examined the child characteristics of emotional ... |
Predicting early peer acceptance from toddler peer behavior |
2007 |
1704 |
"This study examined the association between toddler peer behaviors, toddler emotion regulation and kindergarten peer behaviors and acceptance using a sample of 128 children. Toddler peer behavior was assessed during play with an unfamiliar peer and ... |
Early parenting and children's kindergarten peer acceptance |
2007 |
2142 |
"The purpose of this study was to identify 2 theoretical constructs of parenting and assess the relation of these constructs to children's kindergarten peer acceptance. Participants included 274 children, their mothers, and kindergarten peers. Genera... |
Emotional reactivity, aggression, and peer liking: the roles of gender and maternal socialization of negative emotions |
2009 |
4673 |
The purpose of study 1 was to explore the interaction between emotional reactivity and maternal socialization of anger as it predicts physical and relational aggression. Gender differences in this relation were hypothesized and explored. Participants... |
Developmental trajectories of “hot” executive functions across early childhood: contributions of maternal behavior and temperament |
2009 |
3810 |
It has been established that children's executive functioning (EF) skills play an important role in psychopathology (e.g., AD/HD) as well as social and academic competence. However, other than the examination of genetic factors, there remains a limit... |
Interparental conflict and internalizing symptoms: the moderating role of positive peer relationships |
2010 |
2086 |
This study examined the roles of peer acceptance and friendship quality as moderators of the association between interparental conflict and internalizing symptoms in a longitudinal sample of elementary school children who were initially recruited in ... |
Peer victimization and aggression across elementary school |
2011 |
1674 |
The current study examined peer victimization and aggression across elementary school (K, 1st, 2nd, and 5th grades) using Latent Class Growth Analysis (LCGA). Participants were 2624 kindergartners, 1312 of whom contributed longitudinal data. All data... |
Predicting behavioral outcomes from reactivity and regulation and the role of social preference |
2011 |
1358 |
The current study examined the effect of early emotion regulation and reactivity on later behavioral outcomes. Differential forms of reactivity were thought to interact with attentional control to predict internalizing or externalizing behavior. Addi... |
Friendship and risk for internalizing behavior: understanding the selection and socialization of maladaptive behavior |
2012 |
2007 |
The present study sought to examine the role of friendship in the link between early individual risk and subsequent internalizing behavior. A model indicating friendship characteristics as mediating mechanisms between early individual risk and subseq... |
Effects of parent-child aggression, maternal warmth and child processing mechanisms on hostile attribution bias |
2012 |
6491 |
The present study aimed to expand the current conceptualization of hostile attribution bias (HAB) development by examining the effects of maternal parent-child aggression (PCA) and warmth on HAB development. In addition, child attentional control and... |
Temperament and internalizing problems in middle childhood |
2013 |
2154 |
This study draws on a developmental psychopathology perspective to examine the cumulative influences of temperament and life stress in the family context on increases in internalizing problems from ages 4 to 7. Data from the Right Track project was u... |
The role of bias in explaining the relation between social preference and depressive symptoms in middle childhood |
2014 |
1250 |
Past research indicates that children's social preference is an important predictor of childhood depressive symptoms. Additionally, children's negative self-perceptions have been identified as a significant predictor of childhood depressive symptoms.... |
The effects of social fear, maternal warmth, and biological sex on the development of social withdrawal in middle childhood |
2015 |
934 |
Research has demonstrated a relation between the social fear aspect of temperament and the development of behavioral withdrawal. However, discontinuity in this pathway exists, indicating that different factors must influence the extent of the effect ... |
The developmental roles of inhibition and working memory across childhood on preadolescent ADHD behaviors |
2018 |
588 |
The ADHD literature suggests that impaired executive functions (EF) of response inhibition and working memory (WM), support behaviors of impulsivity, distractibility, and the inability to suppress behavioral hyperactivity. However, methodological app... |
Negative self-perceptions in preadolescence: the role of parental hostility and peer victimization |
2018 |
400 |
The current study examined the influence of interpersonal relationships on self-perceptions, defined as one’s interpretation of their own personal abilities. Interpersonal relationships with parents and peers, children’s competence, and sex play an i... |
The interaction of student-teacher relationships and mutual friends on academic achievement: the role of perceived competence |
2011 |
9005 |
Prior research indicates that children's social relationships are important predictors of later school success. However, research has failed to address how different school relationships, such as those with teachers and peers, work together to predic... |
A developmental cascade of early teacher-child relationships: implications for academic performance |
2014 |
1207 |
Kindergarten teacher-child relationships have been identified as important and salient contributors to child school success across multiple domains. However, less attention has focused on what early factors impact the development of a positive teache... |
Externalizing subtypes and peer rejection: the impact of a close or conflictual teacher-child relationship |
2016 |
754 |
Reactively aggressive and hyperactive-impulsive children have been shown to have a higher risk of being rejected by their peers, which can lead to a multitude of negative outcomes, including psychological and behavioral problems. An environmental fac... |
Relating measures of maternal responsivity to selected aspects of infant learning and affect |
1988 |
173 |
Twenty mothers and their 12-month old infants were studied during and independent of reciprocal interactions. Mothers were assessed on two measures of responsivity to infant signals: Accuracy of their responses to infant signals on a videotape and th... |
Parental monitoring and oppositionality in the context of early parenting behaviors |
2013 |
1195 |
The current study examined the effect of parental monitoring on later oppositionality outcomes in the context of early relational parenting behaviors (e.g., maternal warmth and maternal intrusiveness). It was hypothesized that monitoring would modera... |
Vulnerability in the context of risk: effortful control and maternal depression |
2016 |
848 |
Interactions between child and parent characteristics may result in the development of normal or abnormal behavior. In some contexts, these interactions may shape the likelihood that a child develops internalizing problems. Parent characteristics inc... |
Social difficulties associated with self-reported depressive symptomatology in childhood : the unique role of victimization |
1995 |
182 |
The current study investigated the unique contributions of victimization, aggressiveness, and social preference to the prediction of depressive symptoms in fourth and fifth grade children. It was predicted that victimization would be significantly re... |
Cognitive and behavioral-emotional functioning during the early school-age years for preterm born children : the role of the mother-child relationship |
1996 |
183 |
The present study investigated whether the mother-child relationship functioned as a moderator (i.e., protective factor) in reducing the effect of biological risk on preterm born children's cognitive and behavioral-emotional functioning during the ea... |
The relation between early frustration reactivity, parental responsiveness and later externalizing symptoms |
2018 |
313 |
Children with higher frustration reactivity are at elevated risk for developing externalizing problems. Prior research has also indicated that certain parenting factors (e.g., hostility, rejection), are associated with risk for child psychopathology ... |
Impact of maternal depression and emotion socialization on the emergence of children’s depressive symptoms from early to late childhood |
2018 |
444 |
This study utilizes a transactional framework to examine the influence of maternal depression and unsupportive emotion socialization at three time points from ages 5 to 10. Data from the Right Track project was used. Maternal depression, which has be... |
An examination of the impact of personality factors and depression on maternal responses to child behavior |
1992 |
768 |
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of personality factors and depression on the ways that mothers respond to children's behavior. Specifically, this study compared the impact of two different personality dimensions, Autonomy and Soci... |
Children's perceived quality of significant relationships and socioemotional adjustment |
1995 |
234 |
The present study extends research on interpersonal relations to preadolescence by introducing the Children's Inventory of Significant Relationships (CISR), a self-report measure of children's perceived quality of relations with their primary caregiv... |
Developing a child health model : a prospective study of maternal health beliefs and utilization of preventive infant health care services |
1995 |
220 |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among expectant mothers' health beliefs, utilization of preventive health care services, and infant health status. The participants were 75 expectant mothers recruited in their third trime... |
Distinctions between sociometric status groups : internalizing difficulties |
1996 |
182 |
Theoretical conceptualizations of internalizing difficulties, particularly depression, suggest that there is a relationship between social relationships and internalizing difficulties. The present study examined one important social relationship in p... |
The relation between maternal child-rearing styles and the development of aggression in children |
1989 |
221 |
The purpose of this investigation was to enhance the theoretical understanding of the social development of popular and aggressive first grade boys. Recent models of social development have recognized the embeddedness of children within a variety of ... |
The mediating role of the self in the prediction of psychopathology from the mother-child relationship |
1992 |
194 |
The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the role of the self in the prediction of psychopathology and continuity from the mother-child relationship. There has been much recent support for the prediction of psychopathology and continui... |
An examination of associations between children's popularity and mothers' and children's views of relationships |
1992 |
197 |
The purpose of this study was to assess the associations between children's popularity, as indexed by peer sociometric nominations, and aspects of mothers' and children's views of social relationships. Specifically, this study examined the associatio... |
The relationship between maternal knowledge of developmental norms, mother-child interactions and children's social competence |
1992 |
211 |
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mothers' knowledge of developmental norms, various aspects of the mother-child interaction and children's social competence. Seventy mother-child pairs participated in this study. Chil... |
Parent-child co-regulation predicting emotion regulation in early childhood |
2015 |
2850 |
The current study examined the importance of co-regulation, defined as the mutual regulatory parent-child process that consists of coordinated emotional expression (Feldman, Greenbaum, & Yirmiya, 1999), on emotion regulation in children across early ... |
Pre-adolescent peer status as a function of the compatibility of maternal and child temperament, and of mothers' ability to cope with stress |
1990 |
200 |
This dissertation examined several aspects of parenting behavior which may play an important role in the child's social and emotional development. The purpose of the study was to expand existing knowledge of differential family relations among childr... |