Parent-Child Relations: Assessing Recent Changes

The Role of InTRaveRbal exchanges In assessIng PaRenT– chIld RelaTIonshIPs

This research was funded by a CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (80209-06-12) to the authors. We would like to thank our research assistants and Edward F. Meehan for their help with this study. We would also like to thank Grazyna Kochanska and Nazan Aksan for sharing their coding schemes with us. We would like to acknowledge the efforts of the editor and reviewers who provided exceptional feed...

Establishing family foundations: intervention effects on coparenting, parent/infant well-being, and parent-child relations.

This study investigated the ability of a theoretically driven, psychosocial prevention program implemented through childbirth education programs to enhance the coparental relationship, parental mental health, the parent-child relationship, and infant emotional and physiological regulation. A sample of 169 heterosexual, adult couples who were expecting their 1st child was randomized to intervent...

Correlates of Parent-child Relations as Perceived by the Child, Type of Humor Appreciations, and Neuroticism

Parent Predictors of Changes in Child Behavior Problems.

The present study examined whether ineffective discipline, single parent status, social support, parent involvement, and parent depression predicted changes in preschoolers' (N = 129) behavior problems. This study also evaluated whether child sex and ethnicity moderated the relationships between these variables and changes in problem behavior. Parents completed questionnaires at the beginning o...

Parent-child interaction therapy: application to maltreating parent-child dyads.

OBJECTIVE Parent-Child Interaction Training (PCIT), which uses a social learning framework, is a dyadic intervention that is designed to alter specific patterns of interaction found in parent-child relationships. Previous research suggests that maladaptive and high-risk characteristics found in maltreating parent-child dyads may be responsive to PCIT. The primary focus of this study is to exami...