Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from July 1999

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from July 1999

Strategies of Play and Winning the Game: A Reply to Brian Vaughn.
July 1, 1999... A functional approach to social dominance (i.e., resource control) advances important and unique developmental questions not suggested by structuralist approaches. The functional approach to social dominance emphasizes that behavior can be...

Prediction of Early Childhood Negative Emotionality and Inhibition From Maternal Distress During Pregnancy.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... The association was investigated between psychological distress reported during each trimester of pregnancy and maternal ratings of temperament when the children were 6 months and 5 years of age. Mothers in the greater Helsinki area who were to...

Mothers' and Infants' Spontaneous Vocal, Verbal, and Action Imitation During the Second Year.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... The spontaneous vocal, verbal, and action imitation of 20 infants and their mothers was examined during play and bath interactions in their homes when the infants were 10, 13, 17, and 21 months of age. Imitative episodes during these natural...

Consistency and Change in Children's Emotionality and Regulation: A Longitudinal Study.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... Using a longitudinal data set of children aged 4-6, 6-8, 8-10, and 10-12, consistency and change in teachers' and parents' reports of emotionality and regulation were examined. In general, there was considerable interindividual (correlational)...

Implicit Theories of Social Interactions: Children's Reasoning About the Relative Importance of Gender and Friendship in Social Partner Choices.
July 1, 1999... Children (ages 4-8, N = 122) predicted who a hypothetical peer would choose as a partner in various situations. Social partner choices were between (a) same-sex and opposite-sex peers, (b) friends and new peers, and (c) same-sex new peers and...

Relations of Children's Social Status to Their Emotionality and Regulation: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... The relation of 4- to 6-year-olds' sociometric status to teacher- or peer-reported negative emotionality and regulation was examined across two semesters (T1 and T2). Social status at T2 was positively related to teacher-reported regulation and...

Parent and Adolescent Temperaments and the Quality of Parent-Adolescent Relations.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... Adolescent and parent temperaments as predictors of the quality of parent-adolescent relations were examined. Participants were 88 seventh-grade adolescents and their mothers and fathers. All three family members provided reports of their own...

Postpartum Transitions in Adolescent Mothers' Romantic and Maternal Relationships.
July 1, 1999... Minority adolescent mothers (N = 375) were interviewed during the prepartum (or early postpartum) period and approximately 1 year later (N = 186) regarding their maternal and romantic relationships, depressive symptomatology, and negative life...