Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 2003

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2003

Identification of aggressive and asocial victims and the stability of their peer victimization.
October 1, 2003... Despite the awareness that victims of peer aggression are a behaviorally heterogeneous group of children, current classification procedures limit the number of variables that may be used to identify victim subtypes. Findings from this study,...

Sociometric status and children's peer experiences: use of the daily diary method.
October 1, 2003... Elementary school children completed a daily diary indicating specific peer encounters that had occurred that day at school and participated in sociometric surveys. Diary items assessed three categories of negative peer encounters (physical...

Aggressors, victims, and defenders in preschool: peer, self-, and teacher reports.
October 1, 2003... Agreement between peer, self-, and teacher nominations for aggressor, victim, and defender and the stability of peer and self-nominations over 4 months was examined. Informants varied in the prominence given to the different roles. Agreement...

Learning to draw recognizable graphic representations during mother-child interactions.
October 1, 2003... The present study investigated the role of mother-child collaborative drawing in children's creations of recognizable representations. Thirty-two 4- and 5-year-olds played a cooperative game with their mothers in which they were instructed to...

Breastfeeding, bonding, and the mother-infant relationship.
October 1, 2003... Mothers often report that breastfeeding is an enjoyable and emotionally beneficial experience they share with their infants. However, little research has investigated the role of feeding method in the development of the maternal bond and the...