OBJECTIVES To describe maternal discipline of children in at-risk families and to determine factors associated with disciplinary practices. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING At-risk families in North Carolina followed up in a longitudinal study of child maltreatment. PARTICIPANTS Maternal caregivers of 7- to 9-year-old children with factors at birth that placed them at risk. MEASUR...

A maternal authoritarian style has been related to the development of physical aggression during childhood and later future social problems; however, not too many studies have detected other than individual or family factors that may buffer this maternal effect. This work examines whether daycare center attendance may moderate the relationships between a mother authoritarian style and physical ...

We used multilevel covariance structure analysis to study the relationship between birth weight, family context, and youth math and reading comprehension growth from approximately age 5 until about age 14. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child Sample (CNLSY79), we build on previous research examining both the causal relationship between birth weight and subsequent acad...

OBJECTIVE A TV in the bedroom has been associated with screen time in youth. Youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) have higher rates of screen time, but associations with bedroom TVs are unknown in this population. We examined the association of having a bedroom TV with screen time among youth with ADD/ADHD. METHODS Data were from the 2007 National Survey of Children'...

The aim of this study was to examine the hypothesis that Taiwanese aboriginal adolescents feature more severe psychopathology than non-aboriginal adolescents who live in the same mountainous region of southern Taiwan, and to test the hypothesis by controlling other individual and environ-mental factors. In this study, a total of 251 aboriginal and 79 non-aboriginal Taiwanese adolescents were en...

This article considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,444 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find that the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with more than an 8 % increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall evidence of a care/retirement inte...

We make a correction to the calculation of mean seek time in a recent algorithm of intelligently positioned two headed disk systems. We also introduce a new two headed disk system with better mean seek time.

Individual and family characteristics that predict resilience among children exposed to domestic violence (DV) were examined. Mother-child dyads (n = 190) were assessed when the children were 2, 3, and 4 years of age. DV-exposed children were 3.7 times more likely than nonexposed children to develop internalizing or externalizing problems. However, 54% of DV-exposed children maintained positive...

Poverty reduction is entirely determined by the growth rate of population’s mean per capita income and by the change in the distribution of income. This places the empirical relation between growth and inequality at the heart of poverty reducing strategies. This study, which estimates the relation for Paraguay, aims to identify the growth effects of income and education inequality while control...

Proposers in the Dictator Game and the Ultimatum Game often do not act as normative economic theory predicts. Offers are frequently higher than what would be considered income maximizing. The present study investigates two effects on the amount offered by the proposer. The first is whether the initial amount provided to the proposer systematically affects the amount offered (a magnitude effect)...