Examined relationships among childrearing, parental locus of control about childrearing, and child's behavior style. Found that parents who perceived their child's behavior as either externalizing or internalizing had a weak internal locus of control and were more authoritarian. Perceived externalizing child behavior was positively related to…

Examined the narrative skills in 89 children from impoverished families, half of whom had received a preschool intervention aimed at preparing them for school. Found that the preschool experimental group performed better than the control group on comprehension and paraphrase of stories when assessed in the fall but not in the spring. (HTH)

Observed rough-and-tumble play in young adolescent boys on the playground. Found that sociometrically defined average and rejected boys spent a greater portion of their time in rough play compared to popular boys and did so with children who were less dominant than they, suggesting that some children exploit play bouts for their own…

Examined the relationship between maternal praise and task performance of children ages 10 months to 4 years and 10 months. Found that children improved their performance as they grew older and that mothers praised the highest level of performance more often than the lower levels. Praise to older children referred to only the performance and not…

Clarified the developmental processes of awareness of relationships between duration, distance, and speed relative to linear movement. Children began with near awareness of the direct relationships between duration and distance and distance and speed. However, correct grasp of these direct relationships seemed to strengthen an incorrect grasp of…

Examined whether activating conditional knowledge about appropriate strategies for studying a text would enhance self-efficacy and comprehension monitoring in college students. Found that subjects in the activation condition outperformed those in the control condition on reading comprehension monitoring and on comprehension performance but not on…