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Item Father-child emotional reciprocity and children's prosocial behavior(Texas Tech University, 2001-05) Tankersley, Laura GThe purpose of this study was to examine the links between father-child emotional reciprocity, or the relative matching of both positive and negative affect between father and child, and children's positive mood, cooperative behavior, and aggressive behavior when playing with a peer. In addition, three factors were examined as possible contributors to individual differences in father-child emotional reciprocity: (a) marital conflict, (b) father personality, and (c) children's temperament. Participants were 59 families with preschool children, 35 boys and 34 girls, who were a subsample of subjects participating in a larger longitudinal investigation. Findings revealed that fathers who expressed more positive emotion had children who displayed more positive mood and prosocial behavior, and less aggression, when playing with a peer. Children who displayed more positive emotion with their father also displayed more positive mood with their peer, whereas children who displayed more negative emotion with their father were more aggressive when interacting with a peer. Children from father-child dyads with higher levels of positive emotional reciprocity displayed more positive mood when playing with a peer, whereas children from father-child dyads with higher levels of negative emotional reciprocity displayed less positive mood and less prosocial behavior. Father-child emotional mismatch was associated with children's having a more positive mood and high levels of prosocial behavior when playing with a peer. Findings suggest that father-child emotional expressiveness has important implications for children's prosocial behavior.Item Manifestations of bidirectionality in the father-child relationship: connections to children's language and development(Texas Tech University, 2003-05) Cremeens, Penny ReneLanguage is a bidirectional phenomenon that is established within parent-child relationships, influenced by both parent and child, as well as by characteristics of parent-child interactions and the parent-child relationship. Although relations between mother-child interactions and language have been examined, less is known about father-child interactions and language outcomes. This study examines how family income, father personality, child temperament, father-child interaction patterns, father-child attachment, and early child language combine to influence language development across time. It was predicted that child agency, indexed by early language abilities, would influence child language outcomes as posited by Bloom and Tinker's (2001) intentionality model of language development. Findings indicate that child language measures at 15 months predict receptive language development at 36 months. Additionally, child compliance to father initiations and father-child mutual compliance predicted receptive language at 36 months. More distal factors, father personality and father-child attachment, also predicted child receptive language at 36 months. No predictors significantly influenced child expressive language at 36 months. Further, most language measures were significantly correlated between 15 and 24 months, and between 24 and 36 months, but not between 15 and 36 months. Future research should continue to identify variations in the trajectory of language development based on child, father, father-child interaction, and father-child relationship characteristics.Item Predictors of observed dyadic father-child engagement(2006) Holmes, Erin Kramer; Huston, Aletha; Huston, Ted L.Item The role of parental attachment and limit-setting on toddler behavior : separate and combined influences of mothers and fathers(2008-12) Higgins, Kristina Nicole, 1981-; Hazen, Nancy LynnMuch research has been done in the area of toddler compliance/defiance and emotion regulation from a socialization perspective, and although some of this research has used attachment theory as a theoretical basis, there is little empirical literature that measures both attachment in infancy and parental limit-setting in toddlerhood as predictors of toddler compliance, emotionally negative defiance, or emotion regulation. In addition, few studies include fathers’ attachment and limit-setting along with mothers, or examine the different combinations of parenting units’ influence on toddler behavior. The goals of the current study are to assess how infant-parent attachment and parental limit-setting with mothers and fathers separately predict toddler behavior both with the same parent and with the other parent, and how different combinations of parental units, including mother-infant and father-infant attachment and maternal and paternal limit setting, relate to toddler behavior. This study uses longitudinal data, with the infantparent attachment relationships assessed using the Strange Situation at 12 and 15 months, and at 24-months the toddlers were brought into the lab and videotaped in a 20-minute play session, clean-up, and two teaching tasks with each parent. The parents were rated individually on their use of developmentally appropriate, permissive, and harsh/controlling parenting styles, and the toddlers were rated on compliance and emotionally negative defiance; the toddlers were also rated on emotion regulation in a separate task with an experimenter. Using OLS regression analyses, this study found parental limit-setting to be a stronger predictor of toddler behavior than attachment, and toddler behavior can only be predicted in the interaction with the same parent--maternal limit-setting does not predict toddler behavior with father or vice versa. Combinations of parent-infant attachment classifications were then assessed using ANOVAs, and different combinations of infant-parent attachment were related to toddlers’ emotion regulation. Hierarchical clustering techniques were implemented to determine how to create parenting units based on the different parenting styles, and four distinct clusters emerged: both parents developmentally appropriate, both parents are harsh/controlling and permissive, mother is appropriate and father is permissive, mother is permissive and father is appropriate. ANOVAs were then used to relate these clusters to the toddler behaviors.