Volume 6, Numbers 4, October–December 2006

EMPIRICAL PAPERS

Maternal Depression and Parenting: Implications for Children’s Emergent Emotion Regulation and Behavioral Functioning
Casey Hoffman, Keith A. Crnic, and Jason K. Baker

Maternal scaffolding behaviors, an important component of availability that may be compromised when mothers experience significant depressive symptoms, are linked to children’s regulatory and behavioral functioning during the preschool period.

Determinants of Dyadic Scaffolding and Cognitive Outcomes in First Graders
Matthew K. Mulvaney, Kathleen McCartney, Kristen L. Bub, and Nancy L. Marshall

Shared sensitivity, children’s cognitive achievement, and maternal verbal intelligence during infancy predict effective mother – child scaffolding when children are in first grade; furthermore, scaffolding uniquely predicts children’s intelligence.

Meta-Parenting: An Initial Investigation into a New Parental Social Cognition Construct
Carol Kozak Hawk and George W. Holden

Meta-parenting, a new construct that includes deliberate parental social cognitions, is predicted by maternal, child, and contextual characteristics and is associated with reports of lax and over-reactive childrearing.

TUTORIAL

Demographic Changes and Parent – Child Relationships
Gisela Trommsdorff and Bernhard Nauck

This tutorial takes a culturally-informed, lifespan perspective to explore the impact that demographic transitions have on both parent – child and intergenerational relationships and suggests areas for future research.

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