BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds engage in more screen time. Still, the factors in the social and physical home environment driving these differences in preschool children's screen time are poorly understood. This study examines potential home environment mediators in the associations between parental educational level and preschoolers' sc...

The issue of childhood obesity is expanding at an accelerated rate compared to previous generations. Both medical and societal conesquences have arisen from this predicament in children and adults. The significance of parental influence as a factor is of key interest in developing possible prevention programs. Three major categories of focus are parental control, attitudes, and behavior in asso...

Empirical studies suggest a link between parental involvement and their child’s motivation in elementary, middle and high school. Considering the large body of research on this topic in younger age groups, my project focuses on whether parental factors still influence students’ academic motivation in college. Students from various majors, attending a university in the northwestern region of the...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, have developmental origins. The present study examined the effects of parental rearing on dysfunctional attitudes in three areas of life with special attention to gender specificity. METHODS The subjects were 665 Japanese healthy volunteers. Dysfunctional attitudes were assessed by the 24-ite...

In the present study an attempt has been made to investigate the attitude of parents of hearing impaired children and parents of normal children towards their children. Parental attitude scale was developed by Schafer and Bell (1958) based on the original inventory designed by Shoben was administered on 120 parents out of which 30 fathers and 30 mothers has children with hearing impaired and 30...