Volume 3, Number 4, October–December 2003

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

More Than Meets the Eye: Parental and Infant Contributors to Maternal and Paternal Reports of Early Infant Difficultness
Lara D. Atella, Janet A. DiPietro, Barbara A. Smith, and Ian St James-Roberts

Parents' judgements of infant difficultness are influenced by infant irritability and motor activity, as well as aspects of their own psychological functioning, although the latter is more true for fathers than for mothers.

Contributors to Self-Perceived Competence, Satisfaction, Investment, and Role Balance in Maternal Parenting: A Multivariate Ecological Analysis
Marc H. Bornstein, Charlene Hendricks, Chun-Shin Hahn, O. Maurice Haynes, Kathleen M. Painter, and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

Different key parenting self-perceptions in mothers are shaped by different factors in the environment, the child, and mothers themselves articulating with a modular view of parenting.

Mothers' Responsive Parenting Practices and Psychological Experience of Parenting as Mediators of the Relation Between Marital Conflict and Mother – Preadolescent Relational Negativity
Melissa L. Sturge-Apple, Dawn M. Gondoli, Darya D. Bonds, and Lindsay N. Salem

The relation between marital conflict and mother – preadolescent relational negativity is indirect and mediated by mothers' responsive parenting and the psychological experience of the parenting role.

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