Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from January 1998

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from January 1998

Parenting Styles, Motivational Orientations, and Self-Perceived Academic Competence: A Mediational Model.
January 1, 1998... A mediational model is examined that stipulates motivational orientations as mediators between parenting styles and self-perceived academic competence. Three separate pathways were hypothesized: authoritarian parenting leading to extrinsic...

Parents' Aspirations for Children's Educational Attainments: Relations to Parental Beliefs and Social Address Variables.
January 1, 1998... Examined in this study were social address variables (race, community, and children's sex and age), and parental beliefs (parents' confidence in their children's academic abilities, beliefs about their own ability to teach their children,...

Oral Language and Literacy Learning in Context: The Role of Social Relationships.
January 1, 1998... The effects of friend/nonfriend groupings on early literacy were examined. Literacy was defined in terms of children's use of literate language and traditional school-based literacy. We predicted that friend, compared to nonfriend, conditions...

Observations of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Children on the School Playground.
January 1, 1998... Naturalistic observations were made of 17 aggressive and 22 nonaggressive children in Grades 1 to 6, filmed with video cameras and remote microphones on school playgrounds. Observers coded interactive behaviors, affective valence, and play...

Mothers, Fathers, Sons, and Daughters: Temperament, Gender, and Adolescent-Parent Relationships.
January 1, 1998... The role of temperament and gender in understanding adolescent-parent relationships is examined by exploring: (1) whether mothers' and fathers' temperaments influence the quality of their relationships with their sons and daughters; and (2)...

Patterns of Reactivity to an Aversive Tactile Stimulus in Fullterm and Preterm Infants.
January 1, 1998... Reactivity to an aversive tactile stimulus was assessed in 114 fullterm and 163 preterm infants. Irritability and activity, two components of temperament, were rated during a 5-s application of a cold disc on the thigh and for 5 s following the...

Memory Performance and Competencies: Issues in Growth and Development.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Memory Performance and Competencies: Issues in Growth and Development. Franz E. Weinert and Wolfgang Schneider (Eds.) Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995. Pp. xvii + 445. $69.95 cloth. In a study we conducted one time, we examined the conceptual...

Stress, Coping, and Relationships in Adolescence.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Stress, Coping, and Relationships in Adolescence. Inge Seiffge-Krenke. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995. Pp. ix + 289. $59.95 cloth. The field of psychology, particularly the special disciplines of social and clinical psychology, has long been...