Examined contributions of perceptions regarding family of origin well-being and self-esteem to college students' attitudes toward divorced single mothers. Found that perceptions of family of origin well-being predicted attitudes toward divorced single mothers, but family type and self-esteem did not. The amount of interaction with single-parent…

Compared direction and purpose of touch, type, body area touched, and responses to touch for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers observed in early childhood classrooms. Found that infants received more touch than older children. Touch involving "vulnerable body parts" and negative responses occurred more often among toddlers than preschoolers.…

Compared effectiveness of vicarious and written training techniques to teach parents an early stimulation program for infants with Downs Syndrome. Found that infants whose parents were trained through observing a clinician stimulate their child had higher average developmental quotients in gross motor and language development between 6 and 24…

Details speech acquisition process of first British, congenitally deaf infant without other handicaps to be fitted with a cochlear implant, noting the utility of Ling's model of speech acquisition. Notes that following implant, subject showed pattern and timing of acquisition of spoken words comparable to that of normally hearing infants or of…

Examines negotiation of children's construction of autonomy and the personal domain within the context of parent-child and teacher-child interaction. Provides a model for examining the emergence of autonomy out of adult-child negotiation. Describes several studies documenting how adults negotiate with children over personal issues about which a…

Investigates the influence of children's affective dispositions and knowledge of emotions on their ability to use nonaggressive conflict resolution strategies, exploring connections between autonomy and socioemotional development. Finds that individual differences in affective dispositions and emotional knowledge influence children's abilities to…

Examines the influence of parent-child collaboration on children's social competence with peers and the role of parents' and child's gender. Provides evidence that when parents collaborate with children, children's social competence with peers increases and that children's social competence is influenced more by the parent of the same sex than by…

Discusses how adults guide children's conflict resolution methods, especially through discourse based on negotiation and compromise. Presents a model of social interaction that analyzes the ways that teachers guide preschool-aged children through conflict resolution. Focuses on means by which culture has a direct influence on teacher resolution…

Investigates parental intervention in sibling disputes to reveal how different developmental models inform us about the role of social conflict in early development. Examines predictions made by Piagetian, socialization, and conflict-mediation models regarding the role of adults in children's conflicts, as they are applied to a series of studies…

Analyzed children's interactions in 19 Japanese preschools, focusing on conflict resolution and how teachers diminish their role as authority figures to encourage children's sense of self-efficacy and autonomy. Found that the most common Japanese teacher response to conflict is nonintervention, with rare use of commands and rule statements.…

Examined concurrent and longitudinal factors associated with geographical distance between parents and their young adult offspring. Adolescents were interviewed and completed questionnaires several times between sixth grade and age 21. Results indicated correlations between healthy parent-child relationships and geographical distance, personal…

Examined the nature of adult transitions, including adjustment at different phases of the transition from college and the effects on family relations of returning home in young adulthood, in 169 young adult females followed since adolescence. Found that while this transition period is not without some elements of stress, most individuals did not…

Presents a model of adolescent development that emphasizes the relationship dynamics of autonomy and relatedness. Reviews research findings from concurrent and longitudinal analyses to support the model, particularly regarding the process of leaving home in young adulthood. (HTH)

Differences between girls who left home early and at a normative age were examined across several domains of behavior and family relationship constructs. Found that those who leave home early, compared to those leaving later, were more likely to have evidenced childhood problem behaviors and discordant family relations in childhood and adjustment…

Studied differences in the timing of leaving home, comparing young adults raised in the two Germanies. Found that in the West, a number of factors were relevant predictors of differences in home-leaving, whereas in the East, only gender (being female), parental monitoring, communication with parents, and cohabitation were relevant. (HTH)