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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 2007
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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 2007
Adaptive emotion regulation among low-income African American children.(Report)
April 1, 2007... This study examined early childhood predictors of adaptive emotion regulation among economically disadvantaged urban African American children. Vagal tone ([V.sub.NA]), attachment, and regulation capacities were assessed among 69 preschoolers....
Ethnic identity, acculturation, parenting beliefs, and adolescent adjustment: a comparison of Asian Indian and European American families.(Report)
April 1, 2007... Currently, little is known about how child-rearing beliefs change as immigrant families adapt to the host culture and about the extent to which these beliefs begin to approximate the American mainstream. This study examined how parents'...
Clique membership and social adjustment in children's same-gender cliques: the contribution of the type of clique to children's self-reported adjustment.(Report)
April 1, 2007... The effect of the type of a clique to which a child belongs on his or her social and emotional adjustment was examined in a sample of 473 fourth- and fifth-grade elementary school students. A cluster analysis identified five types of cliques...
Assessment of adolescents' preference- and reputation-based peer status using sociometric experts.(Report)
April 1, 2007... This study examined the correspondence between sociometric measures of peer status based on nominations completed by a full sample of adolescents, a subsample of teacher-nominated sociometric "experts," and a randomly selected subsample of...
The role of reciprocity in romantic relationships in middle childhood and early adolescence.(Report)
April 1, 2007... Little is known about romantic involvement in middle childhood. Research involving late-childhood and adolescent youths indicates increasing romantic involvement with age. In the present sample (N = 1,510), though, middle-childhood youths were...
Kindergarten teachers' beliefs and responses to hypothetical prosocial, asocial, and antisocial children.(Report)
April 1, 2007... The goal of this study was to explore kindergarten teachers' attitudes and beliefs toward hypothetical children who frequently displayed certain types of behaviors with peers in the classroom. Participants were 202 kindergarten teachers from 4...