Parent-child conversation of more-liked and less-liked children.
Four more-liked boys and four less-liked boys (M age = 58.13 months) were videotaped as they interacted separately in semi-structured activities with their own mother and father, the mother and father of a more-liked boy, and the mother and father of a less-liked boy. Parents of less-liked boys had more intensive interactions that were more controlling, directive, and intrusive than parents of more-liked boys. Parents of more-liked boys had extensive interactive patterns that made them better able to extend praise and encouragement to children not their own. Similarly, more-liked children seemed more sensitive than less-liked children to situational factors that occurred during interactions with parents not their own and were therefore better able to adjust their behavior to the expectations of the situation.
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Department of Family and Human Development, Utah State University, Logan 84322.
Lindauer
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D010553:Personality Development; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012928:Social Desirability; D014705:Verbal Behavior