Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 1999

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 1999

On Winning Some and Losing Some: A Social Relations Approach to Social Dominance in Toddlers.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... Predictors of social dominance and the effects of social dominance on the play behavior of young children (N = 16, ages 1.4 to 3.2) were studied. The children were observed in multiple interactions (N = 74) with multiple partners to explore...

Power is Knowledge (and Vice Versa): A Commentary on "On Winning Some and Losing Some: A Social Relations Approach to Social Dominance in Toddlers".
April 1, 1999... The conceptual and methodological strengths of On winning some and losing some are identified and the pedagogical value of the approach taken by Hawley and Little is commended. This research extends developmental researchers' understanding of...

Children's Conflict Tactics With Mothers: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Toddler and Preschool Years.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... To document the normative developmental progression of mother-child conflict and conflict resolution strategies, two cohorts of children, spanning the toddler to preschool years, were observed longitudinally. Children's verbal negotiations were...

Gender Differences in Young Adolescents' Experiences of Peer Victimization: Social and Physical Aggression.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... Gender differences were explored in experiences of social and physical aggression of adolescents (39 boys and 37 girls; mean age 13.8). They reported the frequency of experiencing physical aggression and social aggression, described in detail...

Emotion Talk Among Mexican American and Anglo American Mothers and Children From Two Social Classes.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... Ethnic, social class, and gender differences in mothers' and children's references to emotions were examined. Twenty middle-class and 20 working-class Anglo American and 20 middle-class and 20 working-class Mexican American mothers audiotaped...

The ABCs of the ABCs: The Development of Letter-Name and Letter-Sound Knowledge.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... The development of letter-sound (LS) and letter-name (LN) knowledge and associations with other reading skills differed in 91 children followed from the beginning of kindergarten through the middle of first grade: Previous LN predicted both...

Risk and Resilience in the Urban Neighborhood: Predictors of Academic Performance Among Low-Income Elementary School Children.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... Associations between neighborhood risk and low-income children's (N = 168) academic performance were studied over 3 years from third to fifth grade. A neighborhood risk measure included 4 neighborhood demographic characteristics (income,...

Mothering in Context: Ecological Determinants of Parent Behavior.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 1999... How characteristics of parents, children, and the family context relate to mothers' parenting were explored in a sample of 73 mothers and their 5- to 7-year-old children. Maternal authoritativeness was significantly correlated with...

Why Our Children Can't Read.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Why Our Children Can't Read by Diane McGuinness. New York: Free Press, 1997. Pp. 384. $25.00 cloth. There are very few issues more important to a democratic society than ensuring its citizens are literate. Yet in the United States today a...