Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 1998

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 1998

A Structural and Functional Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Model of Social Isolation.
October 1, 1998... Evidence is provided for the structural and functional divergence of two dimensions of social isolation: withdrawal (i.e., voluntary withdrawal from peers) and isolation (i.e., active isolation by peers). Whereas withdrawal refers to a child's...

Moral Reasoning in the Context of Ego Functioning.
October 1, 1998... This study is an attempt to overcome the rationalistic bias in contemporary moral psychology by placing moral reasoning development within the broader context of ego functioning. Participants were 63 Grade 5 students, 72 Grade 10 students, and...

Young Children's Evaluations of Acts Based on Beliefs Different From Their Own.
October 1, 1998... Young children's judgments about social practices based on beliefs different from their own were examined. Children (N = 60), equally divided in three groups, ages 3, 5, and 7, were individually interviewed about events in which a character...

Attachment Security, Parent Peer Management Practices, and Peer Relationships in Preschoolers.
October 1, 1998... Although parent-child attachment is associated with a broad range of child outcomes, relatively little is known about the childrearing practices of parents of securely attached children. The links were investigated between attachment and parent...

Paradoxical Relations Between Perceived Power and Maternal Control.
October 1, 1998... To test the hypothesis that relations between mothers' perceptions of power and their patterns of control are moderated by child temperamental characteristics that have implications for control options, 107 mothers of 3-year-old girls completed...

The Influence of Culture on Pretend Play: The Case of Mennonite Children.
October 1, 1998... Teacher attitudes about pretend play were compared in Old Order Mennonite, New Order Mennonite, and non-Mennonite Christian schools. These subcultures differ in modernity, media exposure, and encouragement of pretend play. Non-Mennonite...

Give and Take: The Development of Conventional Infant Gestures.
October 1, 1998... To understand the development of nonverbal communication, the manual gestures of 11 infants between 9 and 15 months of age were observed while they played with their mothers several times a month. Infants were more likely than their mothers to...