Journal article
Children's Emerging Regulation of Conduct: Restraint, Compliance, and Internalization from Infancy to the Second Year
Child development, Vol.69(5), pp.1378-1389
10/1998
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06218.x
PMID: 9839422
Abstract
We examined emergent regulation of conduct from infancy to the second year. Multiple observational measures at home and in the laboratory assessed, at 8-10 months, the child's restraint and attention (N = 112), and at 13-15 months, compliance to mother, internalization of her prohibition, and quality of motivation in the mother-child teaching context (N = 108). We replicated the findings previously reported for older children that supported our view of compliance and noncompliance as heterogenous: Committed compliance was higher to maternal "don'ts" than "dos," with the reverse true for situational compliance; girls surpassed boys in committed compliance; and committed, but not situational, compliance related positively, and passive non-compliance negatively, to children's internalization of maternal prohibition. We extended previous work into three new directions: children's committed compliance and passive noncompliance in control contexts related predictably to their motivation in mother-child teaching contexts; restraint at 8-10 months predicted higher committed compliance at 13-15 months; and focused attention at 8-10 months was associated with contemporaneous restraint and modestly with committed compliance to maternal "dos" at 13-15 months.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Children's Emerging Regulation of Conduct: Restraint, Compliance, and Internalization from Infancy to the Second Year
- Creators
- Grazyna Kochanska - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, 11 Seashore Hall E, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407; yJerri L Tjebkes - University of IowaDavid R Fortnan - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.69(5), pp.1378-1389
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06218.x
- PMID
- 9839422
- ISSN
- 0009-3920
- eISSN
- 1467-8624
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213428402771
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