Parent-Child Conversation of More-Liked and Less-Liked Children
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Genetic Psychology
Volume
151
Publication Date
1990
First Page
5
Last Page
23
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Parent-Child Conversation of More-Liked and Less-Liked Children. Ann M. Berghout Austin, Shelley L. Knudsen Lindauer, Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1990, 151, 5-23.
