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Four Children and One Toy: Chinese and Canadian Children Faced with Potential Conflict over a Limited Resource
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French, Doran C.; Chen, Xinyin; Chung, Janet; Li, Miao; Chen, Huichang; Li, Dan – Child Development, 2011
Quartets of Chinese (n = 125) and Canadian (n = 133) 7-year-old children were observed as they played with a single attractive toy. Chinese children exhibited more assertive and general rule bids, engaged in more spontaneous giving, and reacted more positively to assertions of others whereas Canadian children more frequently referred to norms of…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Conflict, Toys, Young Children
Development of Mutual Responsiveness Between Parents and Their Young Children
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Aksan, Nazan – Child Development, 2004
This comprehensive study of mutual responsiveness examined 102 mothers and 102 fathers interacting with their children at 7 and 15 months. Responsiveness was studied from developmental and individual differences perspectives, and assessed using macroscopic ratings and microscopic event coding. The latter captured parents' reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Individual Differences
Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Assertive Bids in a Cooperative Group Task.
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Sgan, Mabel L.; Pickert, Sarah M. – Child Development, 1980
Examined assertive bids of elementary school children engaged in a cooperative task. Results from kindergarten and grade one participants support previous research regarding greater male assertiveness and attempts to influence other boys. By grade three, girls' overall assertiveness equaled that of boys. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Assertiveness, Children, Cooperation
Effects of Maternal Interference on the Attachment and Exploratory Behavior of One-Year-Olds.
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Gray, Madelyn D.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Results from a study of 40 one-year-old children and their mothers showed that maternal interference with children's independent object play had no short-term effect on infant social initiatives to mother, responsiveness to mother's social bids, or exploratory play. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Attachment Behavior: A Validation Study of Two Age Groups
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Feldman, S. Shirley; Ingham, Margaret E. – Child Development, 1975
To assess the validity of attachment scores derived from the Ainsworth "strange situation", 56 1-year-olds and 79 2-year-olds accompaned by either the mother, the father, or a brief acquaintance were studied. Proximity to the adult, duration of play, crying, activity, and the incidence of looks and distance bids were measured. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Infants
Effects of Mothers' Simulated Withdrawal and Depressed Affect on Mother-Toddler Interactions.
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Seiner, Sharon H.; Gelfand, Donna M. – Child Development, 1995
Effects of enacted maternal withdrawal and depression were observed in a sample of 18- to 36-month-old children during counterbalanced episodes of simulated depression and normal affect. Found that when mothers enacted withdrawal and depressed affect, toddlers physically withdrew from them, made more negative physical bids for attention, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response
The Peer Relations of Preschool Children with Communication Disorders.
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Guralnick, Michael J.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined peer-related social interactions of preschool children with communication disorders. Found that subjects engaged in fewer positive social interactions and conversed with peers less often during nonplay activities than did normal peers, were less successful in their social bids, and appeared to be less directive with their peers. However,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Disorders, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence