Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from January 2003

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from January 2003

Editorial.
January 1, 2003... A principal objective for Merrill-Palmer Quarterly during this editorial term is to maintain the standards of excellence established by the past Editor, Dr. Carolyn U. Shantz, and continue to advance the scope and quality of scholarship that...

Physical and psychological aggression in at-risk young couples: stability and change in young adulthood.
January 1, 2003... Physical and psychological aggression was examined over a 2 1/2-year period for at-risk young couples. It was predicted, first, that there would be persistence in any physical aggression across time in the group of couples who stayed together;...

An initial examination of girls' cognitions of their relationally aggressive peers as a function of their own social standing.
January 1, 2003... The primary aim of the present study was to examine girls' cognitions of their relationally aggressive peers as a function of their own relationally aggressive and sociometric status. Participants were 151 4th- and 5th-grade girls attending...

Differences between mothers' and fathers' advice-giving style and content: relations with social competence and psychological functioning in middle childhood.
January 1, 2003... The current study examines the relation between mothers' and fathers' advice-giving style and content and children's social competence and psychosocial functioning at a single time point and across a 1-year period. Fifty-eight 3rd-grade...

Children's understanding of social rules and social status.
January 1, 2003... Children's understanding of social rules and authority was investigated by asking 4-9 year-olds (N = 129) about stories in which the status (adult or child) of rule inventors, transgressors, and changers was varied. The rules were conventions...

Children's strategies for displaying anger and sadness: what works with whom?
January 1, 2003... This study examined the influence of expressive strategies (i.e., verbal, facial, crying, sulking, and aggressive), emotion type (i.e., anger, sadness), social context (i.e., mother, father, best friend), age (i.e., 7, 10 years), and gender on...