Predictable patterns in early parent–child interactions may help lay the foundation for how
children learn to self‐regulate. The present study examined contingencies between …

Parent–child coregulation, thought to support children's burgeoning regulatory capacities, is
the process by which parents and their children regulate one another through their goal …

How mothers in compliance-problem vs. healthy dyads modulated the specificity of
directives as a function of their preschoolers' moment-to-moment behavior was investigated …

Investigated the impact of a specific intervention on child cooperation. The intervention was
designed to increase maternal coordination with child behavior. Mothers assigned to the …

The notion that caregiver sensitive and contingent behavior is closely related to children's
perceived control has been proposed both by theorists interested in the effects of parent …

Objective. This study documents the strength of relations between key parent and child
behaviors as they occur during typical encounters for both mothers and fathers, and …

Developmental systems theories highlight the importance of understanding the bidirectional
associations between parenting behaviors and children's development. The current study …

Background Studies clearly indicate that parenting practices relate to child externalizing
behaviors, although the mechanisms underlying this relation are less well understood …

Findings on the relation of maternal verbal teaching strategies to children's effortful control
(EC; ie, self-regulation) are limited in quantity and somewhat inconsistent. In this study …

This study examined development and stability in emerging patterns of co-regulation in
mother–infant dyads (n= 101) over the later half of the first year of life. Links to infants' …