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50 Years of ERIC
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Chuang, Susan S.; Lamb, Michael E.; Hwang, C. Philip – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
We investigated the development of ego-control (EC) and ego-resiliency (ER) over a 13-year period in a cohort of Swedish children first assessed at 2 years of age. Children became more ego-controlled over time although individual differences in EC remained stable. Children's levels of resiliency increased from 2 to 3 years of age and then declined…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Self Concept, Personality, Individual Differences
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Lamb, Michael E.; Malkin, Catherine M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Filmed 30 infants monthly between one and seven months of age where mothers or unfamiliar women responded to their cries by picking up or talking to the infants. Results suggest that infants develop conditioned associations among distress-relief patterns by one month, and cognitive expectations by four or five months. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Structures
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Considers employment factors as determinants of parental involvement in the care of 138 first-born children of 16 and 28 months. Results indicated that fathers were more involved when they assumed more responsibility for child care chores, when they had been more involved 12 months earlier, and when their partners worked more. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Daughters, Employed Parents, Family Characteristics
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
To further explore findings indicating that parental gender is a much more important predictor of caretaker behavior style than is involvement in parental role, 45 Swedish couples were observed at home interacting with their 16-month-old infants. Findings suggest that gender differences in parental behavior are much less amenable to social…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family Life, Fathers, Foreign Countries
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Nsamenang, A. Bame; Lamb, Michael E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
Reports findings from interviews of 389 Nso parents or grandparents. Found that traditional values were widely endorsed but that mothers, parents, and urban respondents expressed less indigenous viewpoints than did fathers, grandparents, and rural respondents. Also discusses topics related to the socialization, learning, and social interaction of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Grandparents, Interpersonal Competence
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1989
Investigated child rearing attitudes of parents of 128 Swedish preschoolers to determine associations of parental agreement. Results suggest that the impact of parental agreement on psychological functioning in Sweden may be less general and gender-differentiated than the impact in the United States, which was demonstrated in Brock and others'…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Characteristics, Intellectual Development, Marital Instability