Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2002

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

Beyond Rough and Tumble: Low-Income Fathers' Interactions and Children's Cognitive Development at 24 months
Jacqueline D. Shannon, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Kevin London, and Natasha Cabrera

Low-income fathers fathers' sensitivity during play interactions, together with children's communicative behaviors, robustly predicted 24-month-olds' Bayley scores.

Maternal Emotions during Mother-Toddler Interaction: Parenting in Affective Context
Sarah E. Martin, Mari L. Clements, and Keith A. Crnic

Mothers' subjective emotional experiences during parent-toddler interaction moderate the associations between family distress and sensitive parenting.

Parental Efficacy: Predictor of Parenting Behavior and Adolescent Outcomes
Lee Shumow and Richard Lomax

In a social cognitive model among a racially/ethnically diverse national sample, adolescent age, family SES, and neighborhood quality were found to predict parental efficacy, which in turn predicted the academic and social-emotional adjustment of adolescents through parental monitoring, involvement, and communication.

The Cultural Structuring of Parenting and Universal Developmental Tasks
Pamela A. Schulze, Robin L. Harwood, Axel Schoelmerich, and Birgit Leyendecker

Intercultural differences in parental beliefs and practices regarding sleeping arrangements, infant feeding, and toilet training elucidate the complexity and possible multidimensional nature of culture.

BOOK REVIEW

Interparental Conflict and Child Development: Theory, Research, and Application
edited by  John H. Grych & Frank D. Fincham
Nanmathi Manian