The purpose of this study was to compare the level of behavioral
understanding of preschool children of mothers who had observed in
the nursery school with the level of behavioral understanding of
mothers who had not observed. "Behavioral understanding" was defined
as a mother's degree of awareness of the factors...
Past research on Head Start has focused on child outcomes, yet Head Start services also target the behaviors of parents. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCW), the current study examined the effect of Head Start on mother (n = 3,575) and father (n = 1,812)...
Interviewing eighteen older parents (aged 65 and older) with two or more children for this project established support for the emotional experience of intergenerational ambivalence. Seventy-five parent-child relationships were discussed. Two major themes arose over what healthy, independently living parents feel ambivalent about in their relationships with their midlife children....
Recent peer relations studies that have included
parents as subjects have pointed to supporting behaviors
performed by parents and their role in the development of
children's peer relations. Findings from these studies
have been similar to explanations of expectation effects.
That is, expectation holders support their expectations by
behaving in...
The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to
which parents and professionals were in agreement prior to and
following intervention regarding their Judgement of the gross motor
abilities of the parents' preschool children.
Each child was tested by a professional on the Ulrich Test of
Gross Motor...
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Sometimes through no fault of their own,
parents find themselves out of work. A factory
may close, sales may be down, or their health
may fail. Whatever the cause, unemployment
(not having a job) affects everyone in the family.
Traditional studies of parent-child relationships have focused on
the influence of parental characteristics on various behavioral,
social, and personality outcomes in children. During the past decade,
social scientists have suggested that other influences of the social
worlds of individuals be studied. As a result, the parent-child
system is being studied...