Mother-Child and Father-Child Mutuality in Two Contexts: Consequences for Young Children's Peer Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Lindsey, Eric W.; Cremeens, Penny R.; Caldera, Yvonne M.
Titel	Mother-Child and Father-Child Mutuality in Two Contexts: Consequences for Young Children's Peer Relationships
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 19 (2010) 2, S.142-160 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.645
Schlagwörter	Play; Mothers; Caregivers; Peer Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; Interpersonal Competence; Toddlers; Compliance (Psychology); Prosocial Behavior; Aggression; Scores; Correlation; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Peer-Beziehungen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Korrelation; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	This study examines the role that context plays in links between relative balance, or mutuality in parent-child interaction and children's social competence. Sixty-three toddlers and their parents were observed in a laboratory play session and caregiving activity (i.e. eating snack). Mutuality was operationalised as the relative balance in (a) partners' compliance to initiations, and (b) partners' expression of positive emotion. Caregivers rated children's social competence with peers, and children's prosocial and aggressive behaviour with peers was observed in their childcare arrangement. Contextual differences were observed in the manifestation of parent-child mutuality, with both mother-child and father-child dyads displaying higher mutual compliance scores in the play context than in the caregiving context. Father-child dyads also displayed higher levels of shared positive emotion during play than during the caregiving context. There were no differences in a way that parent-child mutuality during play and caregiving was associated with children's social competence with peers. Overall, the results suggest that parent-child mutuality is a quality of parent-child interaction that has consistent links to children's peer competence regardless of the context in which it occurs. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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