Citation

Arnold DH, McWilliams L, Arnold EH. Dev. Psychol. 1998; 34(2): 276-287.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003-7710, USA. darnold@psych.umass.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9541780

Abstract

Day-care centers provide an ideal, underused setting for studying the developmental processes of child psychopathology. The influence of day-care teachers' lax and overreactive discipline on children's behavior problems was examined, as was the influence of children's behavior problems on teachers' discipline. Participants were 145 children and 16 day-care teachers from 8 classrooms in a day-care center for children from low-income families. Two techniques are presented for estimating causal relations based on correlational data gathered from day-care centers: 2-stage least squares and simultaneous structural equation modeling. Across techniques, teachers' laxness strongly influenced child misbehavior, and child misbehavior influenced both teachers' overreactivity and laxness. Teachers' overreactivity did not influence child misbehavior

Language: en