Volume 1, Issue 3, July-September 2001

EMPIRICAL ARTICLES

Parenting Practices and Aggressive Behavior in Chinese Children
Xinyin Chen, Huafeng Wu, Huichang Chen, Li Wang, and Guozhen Cen

Relations between parental warmth, guidance, and power assertion and child aggressive behavior in China are moderated by child characteristics such as gender and compliance.

Caregiving Practices of Low-Income Adolescent Mothers and the
Academic Competence of their First-Grade Children
Marcia Vandenbelt, Tom Luster, and Laura Bates

Differences in parenting prior to school entry and in maternal support for achievement once children enter school predict first-grade achievement among children born to low-income adolescent mothers.

Ethnic Category Labels, Parental Beliefs, and the Contextualized Individual:
An Exploration of the Individualism/Sociocentrism Debate
Robin L. Harwood, W. Penn Handwerker, Axel Schoelmerich, and Birgit Leyendecker

Mothers from different ethnic backgrounds share some beliefs regarding long-term socialization goals, but a multiplicity of orientations toward childrearing exists within any group.

Parents' Use of Content-Based TV Advisories
Robert Abelman

Childrearing practices and perceptions contribute to how parental advisory TV ratings are adopted into household television mediation strategies.