Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from July 2000

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from July 2000

Mothers' Conceptions of Everyday Rules for Young Toddlers: A Longitudinal Investigation.
July 1, 2000... Mothers' (N = 106) ratings of rules and child compliance for their young children, and the effects of child temperament and mothers' justifications for rules on ratings of rules and compliance, were examined longitudinally at 14 and 24 months....

Links Between Early Temperament and Language Acquisition.
July 1, 2000... Investigated were predicted relationships between language acquisition and temperamental attentional control and positive affectivity. Mothers of 40 toddlers completed the Toddler Temperament Scale at ages 13 and 20 months and the Communicative...

Young Children's Appraisals of Their Sibling Relationships.
July 1, 2000... Preschool-aged children, their older siblings, and mothers in 65 families appraised the children's relationships. Children responded from their own ("I like my sister") and their siblings' ("My sister likes me") perspectives. For both children...

She Don't Care: Negatives in Children's Narratives.
July 1, 2000... Negatives, descriptions of what did not occur or what was not present, have been a neglected aspect of narratives. As narrators, children use negatives for a variety of semantic and pragmatic functions. A taxonomy of eight distinct types of...

Parents' Recall of Childhood Relationships and Sense of Love Worthiness: Associations With Children's Socioemotional Functioning in Middle Childhood.
July 1, 2000... The association of parents' recollections of childhood parental acceptance and current sense of love worthiness with children's socioemotional functioning was evaluated in a sample of 73 6- to 7-year-olds. A multimethod approach to assessing...

Child Attachment Security and Self-Concept: Associations With Mother and Father Attachment Style and Marital Quality.
July 1, 2000... Children's (n = 216) attachment security and self-concept were predicted from parents' reports of their own attachment style and marital adjustment. Structural equation modeling indicated that mothers' anxious attachment style uniquely...

Gender, Parenting, and Adolescent Functioning in Bangladesh.
July 1, 2000... This study is an initial attempt to examine the association between perceived parental styles and practices and academic achievement in Bangladesh, a Muslim culture. Associations among perceptions of parents' styles and supervisory practices,...