Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Parenting Styles

Parenting Styles

Diana Baumrind's four parenting styles — authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, and permissive — each influence children's socio-emotional development differently.
Authoritarian Parenting
This style is strict and controlling, with little room for open dialogue. Authoritarian parents demand obedience and often enforce rules with minimal warmth. Children raised this way may lack social skills and initiative, usually comparing themselves to others unfavorably.
Authoritative Parenting
This...

Self-Regulation

Self-Regulation

Self-regulation, also known as self-control, encompasses a range of cognitive and behavioral processes that allow individuals to adjust their internal states and outward actions to align with socially acceptable norms and long-term goals. It plays a fundamental role in adaptive functioning, from resisting impulsive behaviors to persisting through challenging tasks. While its benefits are widely recognized, self-regulation is not limitless. Muraven and Baumeister's theory posits that...

Conduct Disorder

Conduct Disorder

Conduct disorder is a complex mental health diagnosis characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that violates societal norms, the rights of others, or age-appropriate rules. The diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder require the presence of at least three problematic behaviors within the past 12 months, with at least one occurring in the past six months. These behaviors are grouped into four categories: aggression toward people and animals; destruction of property;...

Socioemotional Development during Infancy

Socioemotional Development during Infancy

Socio-emotional development in infancy is primarily shaped by early emotional responses and social connections, with temperament playing a central role. Temperament refers to the consistent patterns in an individual's emotional and behavioral responses, observable even in infancy. By examining temperament, researchers can better understand an infant's unique ways of interacting with the world, influencing subsequent personality and socio-emotional growth.
Primary Temperament Types
Stella Chess...

Behavior Modification

Behavior Modification

Behavioral approaches have often been criticized for ignoring mental processes and focusing solely on observable behavior. However, these approaches provide an optimistic perspective for individuals seeking to change their behaviors. Rather than concentrating on intrinsic personality traits, behavioral approaches suggest that even longstanding habits can be modified by changing the reward contingencies that maintain them.
A real-world application of operant conditioning principles is applied...

Socioemotional Experience and Gender Development

Socioemotional Experience and Gender Development

Social-emotional experiences and cultural influences play significant roles in shaping gender development. During middle childhood, from ages 6 to 11, peer groups become dominant in reinforcing gender norms. Children in this age group often align with same-gender peer groups, which actively encourage behaviors that conform to traditional gender roles. For instance, boys may be discouraged from engaging in activities perceived as feminine, reinforcing culturally dictated norms about masculinity...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

The Two Facet Model of Parental Psychological Control: Separately Measuring Intrusiveness and Emotional Manipulation Based on What Korean Middle School Adolescents in Seoul Believe to Be Intrusive Parenting.

Assessment·2026

Same author

Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Fathers in Parenting Research: Insights from Fathering Researchers.

Parenting, science and practice·2026

Same author

Repayment Expectation is Associated With Korean Middle School Male-identified Adolescents' Drinking Indirectly via Parental Psychological Control, Whereas Indebtedness is not.

Psychological reports·2026

Same author

Psychological Distress, Parental Hostility, and Child Behavior Problems: The Gendered Moderating Role of Positive Coparenting.

Family process·2025

Same author

Respect based on age and parental psychological control as risk factors for drinking among Korean middle school adolescents in Seoul.

Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse·2025

Same author

Nurses' interactions shape coparenting relationships during early parenthood: a longitudinal study of fathers with infants in Sweden.

BMC nursing·2025

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jun 25, 2026

Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood

Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood

Published on: February 11, 2017

Coparenting behavior moderates longitudinal relations between effortful control and preschool children's

Sarah J Schoppe-Sullivan¹, Arielle H Weldon, J Claire Cook

¹Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. schoppe-sullivan.1@osu.edu

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines

|February 12, 2009

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Supportive coparenting buffers children against externalizing behaviors. When parents work together effectively, low effortful control (self-regulation) in children does not predict later behavior problems.

More Related Videos

Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children

Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children

Published on: March 1, 2019

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure

Published on: September 19, 2019

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jun 25, 2026

Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood

Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood

Published on: February 11, 2017

Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children

Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children

Published on: March 1, 2019

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure

Published on: September 19, 2019

Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Family Studies
Child Behavior

Background:

Effortful control, the ability to regulate attention and behavior, is crucial for socioemotional adjustment.
Deficits in effortful control are linked to increased risk for externalizing behavior problems in children.
Coparenting, the way parents interact and support each other's parenting, is also associated with child adjustment.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if coparenting behavior moderates the longitudinal relationship between preschool children's effortful control and externalizing behaviors.
To examine the buffering effect of supportive coparenting on the development of externalizing behaviors.

Main Methods:

Study included 92 families with a 4-year-old child.
Observed parental coparenting behavior during family interactions.
Assessed children's effortful control via parent ratings and externalizing behaviors via parent and teacher reports at baseline and one-year follow-up.

Main Results:

Supportive coparenting significantly moderated the longitudinal association between children's effortful control and externalizing behaviors.
This moderating effect was evident in both mother and teacher reports of externalizing behavior.
The findings held even after controlling for initial levels of externalizing behavior.

Conclusions:

Effective coparenting acts as a protective buffer for children's socioemotional development.
High levels of supportive coparenting mitigate the negative impact of low effortful control on the emergence of externalizing behaviors.
Positive coparenting dynamics are essential for preventing the escalation of behavior problems in at-risk children.