Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 2004

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 2004

Elementary school children with behavior problems: teacher-child relations and self-perception. A prospective study.
April 1, 2004... The teacher relations and self-perception of children with externalizing (n = 26) and internalizing behavior problems (n = 25) and a nonproblematic group (n = 44) were studied prospectively. The children were assessed with the Rutter CBQ in 1st...

Telling stories: examining the effects of elaborative style, reporting condition, and social class in preschoolers' narratives.
April 1, 2004... This research examined two strategies for encouraging preschoolers' narratives. Thirty-two lower-SES and 31 middle-SES children (mean age = 4.85) participated. Children were assigned randomly to either high or low elaborative narrative style...

Mother-child discourse surrounding a child's past behavior at 30 months: links to emotional understanding and early conscience development at 36 months.
April 1, 2004... Recent research supports the idea that both the content and style of mother-child discourse is important in shaping a child's early moral understanding. This study was designed to further this research by examining how the clarity,...

It's all in their heads: reflective abstraction as an alternative to the moral discussion group.].
April 1, 2004... This study examined two distinct moral reasoning interventions: an interindividual intervention, in which students discussed moral dilemmas, and an intraindividual intervention, in which students individually reflected on moral dilemmas....