Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 2000

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2000

Some Things Considered.
October 1, 2000... This October 2000 issue of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly marks a turning point for this journal. It is the last issue to be created by the current editorial staff. I thank the three associate editors, Keith Stanovich, Charlotte Patterson, and...

Parent-Child Physical and Pretense Play: Links to Children's Social Competence.
October 1, 2000... Connections were examined between parent-child pretense and physical play and children's (median age = 5 years) social competence. Children's emotion knowledge and self-efficacy were assessed as possible mediators linking parent-child play...

African American and Puerto Rican American Parenting Styles, Paternal Involvement, and Head Start Children's Social Competence.
October 1, 2000... I examined (a) the similarities and differences in parenting styles and paternal involvement within and between African American and Puerto Rican American parent groups and (b) the relationship between mothers' and fathers' parenting styles,...

Teaching Practices of Mexican American Mothers With Everyday and School-Related Tasks.
October 1, 2000... The teaching behaviors of Mexican American mothers were examined using an everyday task and a school-related task. The sample consisted of 37 Mexican American mother-child dyads. The children's mean age was 50.8 months (SD = 6.1). The results...

Maternal Socialization of Children's Preventive Health Behavior: The Role of Maternal Affect and Teaching Strategies.
October 1, 2000... Relations among maternal beliefs about child development, maternal affect, and teaching behavior during health socialization, and children's healthy and safe behavior were examined. Kindergarten and 1st-grade children and their mothers...

Sibling Self-Disclosure in Early Adolescence.
October 1, 2000... Sibling-directed self-disclosure was studied in a sample of 40 children in grades 5 and 6 (boys = 22, girls = 18; M age = 11.5 yr; 20 with an older sibling, 20 with a younger sibling). Reports of warmth in the sibling relationship were most...

Children's Social Cognitions: Physically and Relationally Aggressive Strategies and Children's Goals in Peer Conflict Situations.
October 1, 2000... The relation between goals and strategies for conflict resolution of children in the 4th through 6th grades were assessed using self-report questionnaires (N = 273). Prosocial strategies were positively correlated with relationship and equality...

The Influence of Vicarious Reinforcement and Habituation on Contingency Learning in Infants.
October 1, 2000... Observational reinforcement in 5- to 13-month-old infants was studied in a contingency learning task where brief light-sound stimulation followed touches on a canister. For all infants, a 3-min contingency period was followed by 3 min of...

Resiliency in the Aftermath of Deprivation: A Second Look at the Development of Romanian Orphanage Children.
October 1, 2000... Cognitive development was evaluated in children who had spent at least 8 months in a Romanian orphanage (RO) and two comparison groups of children: a Canadian-Born, nonadopted, never institutionalized comparison group (CB) and an Early Adopted...

Temperament of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Appropriate-for-Gestational-Age Infants Across the First Year of Life.
October 1, 2000... Temperament was studied across the first year of life in 39 full-term small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants and 30 full-term appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) infants. Infant temperament was measured at 4, 8, and 12 months of age using a...