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Mothers' Communication Style And The Development Of Child Compliance And Noncompliance During The Third Year Of Life, Sara Sohr-Preston
Mothers' Communication Style And The Development Of Child Compliance And Noncompliance During The Third Year Of Life, Sara Sohr-Preston
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Learning to comply with parental commands and requests is an important developmental achievement during toddlerhood. Although more responsive parenting often is associated with increases in children's compliance during the toddler years, the role of mothers' and toddlers' language abilities on change in compliance has largely been ignored. The current study addressed this gap using a sample of low-income, primarily African American mothers and toddlers (N = 55). Two models examining the role of receptive vocabulary were evaluated. First, mothers with higher receptive vocabulary scores were hypothesized to display more warm responsive communication in a teaching situation, which would be related …