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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"child behaviors"”.
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PREDICTORS OF PARENT AND CHILD BEHAVIORS DURING DAILY SEPARATIONS AND REUNIONS AT DAYCARE
… the factors expected to predict parent and child behaviors in separations and reunions in daycare, 88 dual-career mothers (n= 54) and fathers (n= 34) were observed during interactions with their infants and toddlers in this context. Simultaneous regression analyses and path analyses provided …
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Examining Parenting Practices and Routines as Possible Mediators of Parenting Inflexibility and Child Behaviors
<p>Due to the high prevalence rates of child behavioral problems, considerable research has focused on factors that contribute to child behavioral problems. Parenting inflexibility has been shown to relate to child internalizing and externalizing behaviors through ineffective parenting practices. …
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The role of caregiver anxiety, sleep, distress, and emotion socialization behaviors on child behaviors
<p>In early childhood, caregivers are the primary agents of emotion socialization, helping their child identify, label, and healthily express their emotions. How a caregiver aids in emotion development and understanding has important implications for their child’s behavior regulation. Distressed …
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Maternal autonomy support and control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ behavioral regulation
… of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. Cross-cultural studies have mainly focused on early adolescence, and the studies in early childhood are limited. Furthermore, the transactional process of mother-child interaction is an important context of …
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The Effect of Child Distress on Maternal Accommodation of Anxiety: Relations with Mother and Child Factors
… supports a relationship between parenting behaviors and anxiety in youth, yet few studies have examined parental accommodation in the context of youth with anxiety disorders other than obsessive-compulsive disorder. Furthermore, little is known about the influence of child behaviors on …
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Interactive contributions of children’s negative or positive behavior and maternal cardiac physiology to parenting in real time: An integration of biology and context
… contributions of within-person fluctuations in children’s negative or positive behavior and maternal cardiac physiology in real time to three types of parenting behavior: maternal emotional support, maternal nonsupport, and maternal cognitive assistance. I utilized data collected from 130 …
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Group Parent Training and Collaboration on Functional-Assessment Based Intervention in Reducing Children's Challenging Behaviors
… examined the effects of group parent training on children's challenging behaviors in home settings. Eight parents of young children with challenging behaviors were trained in a large group setting on using functional assessment to design interventions that fit the needs of individual families. The …
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How Household Economic Stress Matters: Family Functioning and Child Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors
… caregiver psychological well-being and children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors. For a comprehensive measure of household economic stress, this dissertation delves into the severity, duration, and fluctuation of economic stress, considering diverse income and asset profiles. …
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Parents Reasons for Sending Their Children to Lowest Performing Private Secondary Schools in Dar es Salaam Region and Their Expectations.
… the reasons for the parents sending their children to lowest performing private secondary schools; and to determine parents expectations on children academic performance in lowest performing private secondary schools in Dar es Salaam region. It employed both quantitative and qualitative …
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Parenting, neighborhood characteristics, and disruptive child behavior in low-income African American families
… parenting, neighborhood characteristics, and child disruptive behavior. Examining data from a low-income, African American preschool sample, this study investigated how self-reported neighborhood characteristics and observed parenting behaviors uniquely predicted observed disruptive behavior …
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Exploring Interactions Between DRD4 Genotype and Perceived Parenting Environment
… between DRD4 genotype and parenting on children’s externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviors, and explored both parent and child perceptions of all variables. Both diathesis-stress and differential susceptibility hypotheses were assessed for examining possible interactions for …
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Examination of the Relationship Between Parenting Styles and Parental Tolerance
Noncompliant behavior in children may be due to the developmental stage the child is going through, but persistent noncompliance can have long-term effects on the child ranging from academic problems to relationship problems (Forehand & Wierson, 1993; Kalb & Loeber, 2003). Parents' response to …
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Temperament and the disposition to play: sources of shared variance
… the Behavioral Style Questionnaire and the Child Behaviors Inventory. Children were tested using the Weschsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence to examine the effect of IQ on perceived playfulness. Fathers‘ ratings of playfulness were correlated with paternal ratings of …
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Family Functioning, Parenting Practices, and Psychological Outcomes in Children With Diabetes as Compared to Children Without Diabetes
… and healthy psychological adjustment in children with diabetes as compared to children without diabetes. Participants included 60 families, including 30 families with children with diabetes and 30 age- and gender-matched controls without diabetes. Questionnaires were administered to the …
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Development and initial validation of the family eating and activity questionnnaire
… According to the CDC approximately 17% of children are currently obese (Body Mass Index (BMI) ¡Ý 95th percentile) and the percentage of obese children has tripled since the 1970¡¯s. Both eating and physical activity behaviors have been shown to be related to increased rates of obesity; …
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Children with Mental Retardation / Intellectual Disability: The Function of Adaptive Behavior and Parental Stress Across Childhood
… have investigated the relationship between child functioning, problematic child behaviors, and parental stress. However, previous research has not fully examined variables of parental stress across adaptive behavior and the lifespan span of a child with MR/ID. The present study investigated …
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Empowerment in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
… this study is to explore empowerment in Parent‑Child Interaction therapy (PCIT). Research has shown that attachment issues and child maltreatment are serious social problems that may lead to risks of child abuse and children developing mental illnesses. Interventions, like PCIT have shown to …
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An investigation of the relationship between playfulness and self-esteem
… studied in a sample of 93 first and second grade children. Playfulness and externality were obtained from teacher ratings on the Child Behaviors Inventory and self-perceptions were obtained via child interviews using Harter and Pike’s (1984) Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social …
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The relationship between playfulness and creativity of Japanese preschool children
… was conducted with a sample of Japanese children who attended a preschool that emphasized whole-group orientation. Playfulness was assessed using The Child Behaviors Inventory, teacher interviews, and observations. Creativity was measured using The Creativity Thinking-Drawing Production …
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