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The Influence of Permissive Child Rearing Practices on Personality Development
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Parental Attitudes and Child-Rearing Practices as Related to Academic Underachievement
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A survey of maternal attitudes toward child rearing practices of day care children
… working mothers, and student mothers of day care children in East Central Indiana in regard to their child rearing practices. The questionnaire method was used.
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An investigation into the child rearing practices of parents and alcohol abuse by black children
… on parental role and/or influence in their children’s self-destructive behaviours (i.e. including the abuse of alcohol) (Chapman & Werner- Wilson, 2008; Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg & Dornbusch, 1991; Sprecher, Harris & Meyers, 2008). Most studies and intervention programmes deal with …
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A comparison of child-rearing practices among Chinese, Chinese- American and non-Asian American parents
… investigate the differences and similarities in child-rearing practices among Chinese, Chinese-American, and non-Asian American parents. <u>Variables</u>. The independent variables are the parents’ ethnic background (Chinese, Chinese-American, or non-Asian American) and the child’s sex (male or …
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Maternal Employment: Investigating the Links Among Family and Job Characteristics, Emotional States, Social Supports, and Child Rearing Practices
… through which maternal employment may influence children's development. To develop such a model, the present study investigated (1) the stress associated with the incompatibility between work and family roles as a possible mediator of this process, (2) employed mothers' satisfactions with social …
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The relationship between university students' perceptions of their parents' child rearing practices and the students' usage of drugs
… for behavior, parental behavior and actions, child-rearing practices, and evaluations and attitudes toward their progeny will have a definite effect upon the subjects' usage of drugs. The first two, as mentioned above, had no significant effect upon the subjects' usage of drugs, the second two …
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A Study of the Self-Esteem of Delinquent Male Adolescents and the Perceived Degree of their Parents' Child-Rearing Practices
… psychologists are concerned about how parents' child-rearing practices influence adolescents' self-esteem, for self-esteem provides one of the foundations for the development of personality. Is it possible that parents' child-rearing practices contribute to the development of a low self-esteem …
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Ethnic identity in Nigerian children of black-white mixed marriages. The relationship between child rearing practices and ethnic identification in interracial (Yoruba/Oyinbo) and Yoruba familes in Nigeria.
This study examined the relationship between child rearing practices and ethnic identity in interracial and Yoruba children in Nigeria. An in-depth study of 20 interracial and 20 Yoruba families was conducted. Three methods of measuring ethnic identity (a doll choice technique, Draw-A-Person and …
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The Effects of Concerted Cultivation on Academic Achievement
Anne Lareau (2003) argues that parents' child-rearing practices have a profound effect on academic and later occupational success for children, even holding constant such important factors as gender, race and school effects. She says that social class impacts these child-rearing practices and that …
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An investigation of social skills and attributional styles of children with attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity
… was to assess the relationship among parent child-rearing practices, children’s internal/external attributional styles and social skills between Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity (ADD/H) and non-Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity (non-ADD/H) children. A review of the literature …
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Parents' Goals and Practices: To What Extent do Parental Goals for Socialization Relate to Their Practices?
… relationship between a parents' goals for their children and their parenting behaviors. An ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1990) provides the primary theoretical basis for the study, locating the relationship between parent goals and parent practices within a network of other …
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Growing Babies, Growing faith: The Formation of Faith in The Life of the Child
The composition and formation of a young child's Muslim identity is situated within a contextual landscape of location, history, demographic, family, community and more which makes every child's upbringing unique. Through multiple interviews, visits and general discussions, this research sets out …
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Parent involvement in Migrant Head Start : parental beliefs and teacher practices
… farmworker families of Mexican origin with children enrolled in Migrant Head Start. Under investigation were parent and teacher beliefs and practices pertaining to involvement in the child's early schooling context. An ethnography approach and modified grounded theory approach was chosen …
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Parenthood concepts of adults reared without parents
… parental attitudes of the adults regarding child-rearing practices. The sample of the study consisted of fifty-four Caucasian adults, thirty-four males and twenty females. Of the total sample, twenty-seven adults, seventeen males and ten females, were reared in an institutional setting and …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
… and language development of 35 toddler-aged children from low-income Mexican immigrant families. These children represent a rapidly growing demographic in the United States. Because early language abilities are closely linked to later academic success, understanding the characteristics of the …
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Can nurture alter nature? The effects of a parenting intervention program on reducing antisocial behaviors
… example, some researchers have concluded that child characteristics elicit varying types of parenting, speculating that any differences in parenting practices can be better explained by differences in children's behavior than vice versa. Conversely, other researchers have concluded that one of …
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A study of the relationship between dependency and reading achievement
… achievement was defined as a measure of a child's ability to decode and to comprehend written material and to use the knowledge of these two reading components in new situations with new reading material.Subjects were 145 fifth graders from the Muncie Community Schools, Muncie, Indiana. …
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The Black Seventh-day Adventist Family in South Africa : a Needs Assessment and Implications for Family Life Education
… than that of the general population. Premarital children and uncertainty about how reliable the future spouse might be were seen as the main contributing factors to decreased church marriages. Although the respondents practiced the lobola custom, they were not sure whether or not it violated any …
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