Volume 1, Issue 4, October-December 2001

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

Maternal Sensitivity: Components and Relations to Warmth and Contingency
Arnold Lohaus, Heidi Keller, Juliane Ball, Cornelia Elben, and Susanne Voelker

Maternal sensitivity as a measure of parenting quality is analyzed according to situational independence, interrelations among components of sensitivity (signal perception, correct interpretation, prompt, and appropriate reaction), and relations to emotional warmth and behavioral contingency.

The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress in Methadone—
Maintained Mothers' Parenting
Nancy E. Suchman and Suniya S. Luthar

Subjective parenting stress mediates the effects of sociodemographic risk and global psychological maladjustment in maladaptive and adaptive parenting processes in a risk sample of mothers.

STATEMENTS

Less Stress, More Rewarding: Parenting Children with Down Syndrome
Robert M. Hodapp, Tran M. Ly, Deborah J. Fidler, and Leila A. Ricci

Extending to Down syndrome the idea that children's behaviors "elicit" specific emotional reactions from parents, this paper argues that—due to behaviors characteristic of the syndrome—parenting children with Down syndrome might be both less stressful and more rewarding than parenting children with other types of mental retardation.

Towards a Democratic Ethnotheory of Parenting for Families and Policy Makers: A Developmental Systems Perspective
Richard M. Lerner

Parental beliefs about and theories of human development have profound influences on policies and programs affecting parents and children.

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