Volume 3, Number 1, January-March 2003

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

European American and Mainland Chinese Mothers' Socialization Beliefs Regarding Preschoolers' Social Skills
Charissa S. L. Cheah and Kenneth H. Rubin

Cross-cultural differences in maternal belief systems (goals, attributions, strategies) obtain between European American and Mainland Chinese mothers regarding the socialization of social skills in children (sharing with others, emotional control, and helping others). 

Parents' and Children's Perceptions of Parental Behavior: Associations with Children's Psychosocial Adjustment in the Classroom
Noni K. Gaylord, Katherine M. Kitzmann, and Jennifer K. Coleman

Parents' self-reports and children's reports about parents showed significant discrepancies, with direction of discrepancy more important than size of discrepancy in predicting child outcomes.

Coping and Psychological Distress In Mothers of Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Sheri P. Eisengart, Lynn T. Singer, Sarah Fulton, and Jill E. Baley

Specific coping strategies independently predicted psychological distress for mothers of high- and low-risk very low birth weight and term infants, although selection of coping strategies was related to maternal race and social class rather than to severity of infant medical risk.

TUTORIAL

The Heritability of Parenting
Shirley McGuire

Collaborative efforts between socialization researchers and behavioral geneticists would increase our understanding of the complex interplay between nature and nurture in understanding parenting.