Talk About Preschoolers' Interpersonal Relationships: Patterns Related to Culture, SES, and Gender of Child

The conversations of 66 mother-child dyads concerning the children's experiences during a typical day at preschool were examined in order to investigate the following: the tendency of mothers and their 4-year-old children to refer to the children's interpersonal relationships in discussion...

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Published in:Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 1994-10, Vol.40 (4), p.523-537
Main Authors: Flannagan, Dorothy, Hardee, Susan D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child care
Child development
Children
Conversation
Cross Cultural Studies
Cultural Context
Dyadic relations
Dyads
Hispanic Americans
Hispanics
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relations
Interpersonal Relationship
Mother Attitudes
Mothers
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Peer relations
Peer Relationship
Preschool Children
Preschool education
RESEARCH REPORTS
Sex Differences
Social Development
Social Relations
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomic Status
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Summary:The conversations of 66 mother-child dyads concerning the children's experiences during a typical day at preschool were examined in order to investigate the following: the tendency of mothers and their 4-year-old children to refer to the children's interpersonal relationships in discussions of their preschool experiences; the categories of interpersonal relationships discussed by mother-child dyads; a comparison of dyads' discussions of relationships as a function of culture and socioeconomic status (SES) of dyad and gender of child; and the elaborateness with which the dyads discussed the interpersonal relationships. Results indicated that children's relationships with others were an integral part of dyads' conversations. The specific types of relationships discussed and the elaborateness with which they were discussed varied as a function of the type of interpersonal relation (child-peer vs. child-teacher), the gender of the child, and the SES of the dyad.
ISSN:0272-930X
1535-0266