This chapter reviews the evidence pertaining to indirect influences first and is parsed into six
domains, including studies of attachment, childrearing styles and parent–child interactions …

Discusses recent research on sibling relationships, peer group popularity, and friendship
and their links with parent–child relationships. Also discussed are links between siblings …

Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for children wherein
they acquire a wide range of behaviors, skills, and attitudes that influence their adaptation …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Socialization is a process in which an individual's standards, skills, motives, attitudes, and
behaviors change to conform to those regarded as desirable and appropriate for his or her …

Modern theories of child development say that, to understand aggressive behavior, we must
look within the child. This book says otherwise: to change aggressive behavior, we must …

An early view of the development of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors during childhood
and adolescence suggested that such outcomes stemmed largely from the quality of the …

The primary goals of this study were to test a conceptual model linking social approach and
avoidance motivations, socially withdrawn behaviors, and peer difficulties in later childhood …

Next to an introduction to the field and functions of family psychology this edition has been
updated and expanded in the areas of indicators and effects of the changing way of family …

A prospective longitudinal design was employed to assess risks associated with
maltreatment in a representative community sample of 107 maltreated children and an equal …