This study examined the relationships among authoritarian
parental attitudes, home environments, parental attitudes
toward the children's freedom, and the cognitive performances
of kindergarten children. Socioeconomic status of the family
and sex of child and parent differences were also examined.
Subjects consisted of 73 pairs of Korean parents and their
children....
This study focused on the relationship between parental attitudes
and the conscience orientation of children, testing the hypotheses that
(1) parents who had children with an external conscience orientation
would show significantly greater disparity between their independence
granting and achievement inducement attitudes than parents whose
children had conventional or humanistic...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences
between middle- and lower-class adolescents and the extent of their
self-disclosure to their mothers and their fathers; and their feelings
both positive and negative toward their parents and themselves.
The subjects consisted of 50 middle-class and 50 lower-class
adolescents who...
The present study was designed to examine the relationship
between expressed attitudes toward child-rearing, and children's
social behavior in a preschool setting. More specifically, the study
was concerned with the association of parental authoritarian, hostile-rejecting,
and democratic attitudes with the aggressive and cooperative
peer interactions of preschool children. Under investigation...
This study examined children's memory for traditional and nontraditional
parental behaviors displayed in story content. Subjects
were 40 male and 40 female preschool children between the ages of 47
and 60 months. Children were read a story portraying a mother and a
father as the main characters. Each character performed...
Contemporary parenting strategies tend to involve
parent-child interactions in which the parent neither
repressively dominates the child nor follows a permissive
laissez-faire course but respects the child's dignity as a
person. This paper integrates several current theories of
parenting and parent education into the construct of
"respectful parenting," which is...
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A family traditionally has been defined as a married couple with their own children, all sharing a common dwelling and dividing
work by gender. For example, the woman
takes care of the children inside the home and the man works outside the home. Few of today’s American families fit this...
Parents play many roles as they guide their children’s developing food habits: model, teacher, mediator, provider, stage manager, and director. We’ll discuss these in the four lessons of Food for Tots.
Children in middle childhood were surveyed in elementary schools
to explore possible associations between their perceptions about certain
characteristics of their sibling relationships and the ways in which
their parents responded to sibling quarrels.
An instrument was developed to measure perceptions of types of parental responses and the
Sibling Relationship...