Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 1998

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 1998

Children's Understanding of Misinterpretation: Source Identification and Perspective-Taking.
April 1, 1998... The relationship was investigated between children's ability to predict another observer's interpretation of an ambiguous picture and children's ability to identify the source of their own or another observer's misinterpretation after it had...

Development of Logical Reasoning in the Context of Parental Style and Test Anxiety.
April 1, 1998... The development of reasoning during adolescence was examined, and the relationship of parental style and test anxiety to reasoning performance was explored. Participants were 120 students, 40 each in the sixth, tenth, and twelfth grades,...

Parenting Styles and Academic Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Study.
April 1, 1998... The relationships between four parenting styles and academic achievement in school children were investigated in Hong Kong, the United States, and Australia. Results indicated that Australian parents were lower than both Chinese and American...

Mothers' and Fathers' Socializing Behaviors in Three Contexts: Links with Children's Peer Competence.
April 1, 1998... Links were examined between parenting behavior and preschool-aged children's peer competence. Mothers and fathers were observed with their children in contexts designed to elicit parent-child play, involvement in child-peer play, and social...

Preschool Temperament and Environmental Factors Related to the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Middle Childhood.
April 1, 1998... Associations between preschool temperament and environment factors and schoolage personality were prospectively investigated in a Swedish sample of 93 children. Parental temperament ratings of emotionality, activity, sociability, shyness, and...

Longitudinal Analysis of Mothers' and Fathers' Responses on the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale.
April 1, 1998... Mothers' and fathers' responses on the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale (MSAS) were compared and parental characteristics were investigated for their ability to predict the parents' responses on this scale. The relation between the parents'...

Age Differences in Concepts of Self-Esteem.
April 1, 1998... Age differences in concepts of self-esteem--as a psychological disposition--were studied. Participants included 76 children in kindergarten, fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades, and 16 mothers. Participants were asked to label and describe...