Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 2008

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2008

Clarifying the link between parental psychological control and adolescents depressive symptoms: reciprocal versus unidirectional models.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Research has demonstrated consistent positive associations between perceived parental psychological control and adolescents' depressive symptoms, but the direction of influence remains unclear. Using a cross-lagged longitudinal design in two...

Order in the house! Associations among household chaos, the home literacy environment, maternal reading ability, and children's early reading.(Report)
October 1, 2008... The current study examines whether associations exist between household chaos and children's early reading skills, after controlling for a comprehensive battery of home literacy environment characteristics. Our sample included 455 kindergarten...

Homesickness at summer camp: associations with the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and peer relationships in middle childhood.(Report)
October 1, 2008... The goal of the present study was to investigate how the quality of the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and the quality of peer relationships predict girls' feelings of homesickness at a residential summer camp. We expected that...

Early competitive game playing in same- and mixed-gender peer groups.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Sixty-four kindergarten children participated in a bead-collecting game. Their competitive, noncompetitive, and other moves were measured. Gender and gender composition of the group affected competition in the context of playing this game with...

Chinese children's conceptions of shyness: a prototype approach.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Three studies were conducted to explore Chinese children's understanding of shyness. In Study 1 (N = 174, M age = 10.18) interviews with Chinese children revealed a group of diverse attributes that characterized their conceptions of shyness. In...