Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 2005

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 2005

Children's perceived agency in the context of marital conflict: relations with marital conflict over time.
April 1, 2005... Consistent with the bidirectional perspective on parent-child relations, the current study examined children's perceptions of agency in the context of marital conflict. A storytelling task was completed by 115 five-year-old children, tapping...

The association of childhood personality type with volunteering during adolescence.
April 1, 2005... Using a longitudinal design, we investigated the relation of childhood personality type to volunteering during adolescence. We hypothesized that participants with more adaptive personality functioning during childhood would be more likely to...

Cultural and gender differences in the implications of competition for early adolescent friendship.
April 1, 2005... Harry Stack Sullivan maintained that competition between friends in early adolescence would generally destroy their friendship. Working with early adolescent samples in Canada, Costa Rica, and Cuba, we found that hypercompetitiveness--a form of...

A two-dimensional ratings-based procedure for sociometric status determination as an alternative to the Asher and Dodge system.
April 1, 2005... The present study compares the results of three two-dimensional procedures for sociometric status determination: the Asher and Dodge (1986) system, the rating scale method SSrat of Maassen, Akkermans, and Van der Linden (1996), and the...

The relevance of the social information processing model for understanding relational aggression in girls.
April 1, 2005... Two studies examined whether social information-processing variables predict relational aggression in girls. In Study 1, fourth- through sixth-grade girls reported their intent attributions, social goals, outcome expectancies for relational...