Previous family studies mainly treated parenting behavior as corresponding to family socialization, which is in fact a multifaceted concept. In the present study, two family socialization constructs, family processes and parenting practices, were simultaneously investigated for their relative effects on the adolescent development of internalizing and externalizing problems. Data for analysis we...

Abstract This article discusses how the Brazilian Ministry for Women, Family and Human Rights operates in relation to prevention of so-called “teenage pregnancy”, analysing Ministry’s political strategies, directives, initiatives conversation with society-at-large, campaigns engaging their target public. We find, at interstices state bureaucracy, peculiar ways dealing erasing teenage sexuality ...

The history of research on childhood socialization in the context of the family is traced through the present century. The 2 major early theories—behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory—are described. These theories declined in mid-century, under the impact of failures to find empirical support. Simple reinforcement theory was seriously weakened by work on developmental psycholinguistics, attachm...

The present study examined associations between teachers’ classroom behavioral socialization practices and the development of preschoolers’ self-regulation skills throughout the year, as well as the moderating roles of child gender and initial self-regulation skills. The predominantly low-income sample consisted of 216 children from 68 preschool classrooms within 29 private child care centers. ...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

In this study, the authors scrutinize the intergenerational transmission of book reading and television viewing behaviors. They examine long-term effects of parents’ social status, parental media example, and media guidance activities during one’s childhood on adult media tastes. Data are employed from the Family Survey of the Dutch Population. By estimating structural equation models, the auth...