Theodore Dix
Biographic Data
| ID | 1662736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Dix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Dix |
| SIGNATURE | DIX T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transient changes in mothers’ negative emotional reactivity predict changes in the intensity, persistence, and variability of their aversive behavior
Applying theories of emotion to understanding the regulation of aversive parenting, we used microanalytic observational methods to test whether transient changes in a mother's negative emotional reactivity predict changes over time in key parameters of her moment-to-moment aversive behavior: its intensity, variability, persistence, and connection to difficult child inputs. At multiple times over 2 years, 319 divorcing mothers and their 5- to 12-y…
Interdependence among mothers, fathers, and children from early to middle childhood
Based on data from 710 2-parent families enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, this article examined dyadic and family-level interdependence among indicators of family members' competence over time. A cross-lagged model that included children and both parents was used to simultaneously test relations among observed maternal sensitivity, observed paternal sensitivi…
Mothers’ depressive symptoms in infancy and children’s adjustment in grade school
On the basis of longitudinal data across 9 years, this study examined the contribution of sustained attention and executive function to the poor cognitive and socioemotional adjustment of school-age children whose mothers had depressive symptoms during the child's infancy. Mothers (N = 1,364) reported depressive symptoms across their child's infancy and early childhood. Maternal sensitivity was observed during laboratory interactions at 36 months…
Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s cognitive and social agency
Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,364), the present study supports an agentic perspective; it demonstrates that mothers' depressive symptoms in infancy predict children's poor first-grade cognitive functioning because depressive symptoms predict children's low social and cognitive agency-low motivation to initiate social interaction and activ…
Parenting and Naturally Occurring Declines in the Antisocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents
This review examines why, without clinical intervention, antisocial behavior tends to decline naturally as everyday family processes unfold over time. Despite considerable research on why antisocial behavior develops and interventions that reduce it, aspects of everyday parenting that lead antisocial behavior to decline in most children without intervention are poorly understood. We examined the positive parenting and child processes that may be …
Can Developmental Changes in Inhibition and Peer Relationships Explain Why Depressive Symptoms Increase in Early Adolescence
Depressive symptoms and parenting competence
Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support During Interactions with Toddlers
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14–27 month‐old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three dimensions of temperament: activity, anger proneness, and social fearfulness. As expected, activity predicted…
Connecting with Parents
When children act to involve mothers in positive interaction, they influence the amount, timing, and content of parent–child exchanges. By assessing children's smiling and positive initiation, we examined child behaviors that function to create positive interaction. In a non‐clinical North American sample of 103 mothers and their 14‐ to 27‐month‐olds, we observed that children attempted to connect positively with mothers (1) more with age, (2) mo…
The Affective Structure of Supportive Parenting
This study investigated the maternal concerns and emotions that may regulate one form of sensitive parenting, support for children's immediate desires or intentions. While reviewing a videotape of interactions with their 1-year-olds, mothers who varied on depressive symptoms reported concerns and emotions they had during the interaction. Emotions reflected outcomes either to children (child-oriented concerns) or to mothers themselves (parent-orie…
The affective organization of parenting
This article presents a 3-component model of parenting that places emotion at the heart of parental competence. The model emphasizes (a) child, parent, and contextual factors that activate parents' emotions; (b) orienting, organizing, and motivating effects that emotions have on parenting once aroused; and (c) processes parents use to understand and control emotions. Emotions are vital to effective parenting. When invested in the interest of chil…
Mothers' Implicit Theories of Discipline
Theodore Dix, Diane N. Ruble, Robert J. Zambarano, Mothers' Implicit Theories of Discipline: Child Effects, Parent Effects, and the Attribution Process, Child Development, Vol. 60, No. 6 (Dec., 1989), pp. 1373-1391
The affective organization of parenting
This article presents a 3-component model of parenting that places emotion at the heart of parental competence. The model emphasizes (a) child, parent, and contextual factors that activate parents' emotions; (b) orienting, organizing, and motivating effects that emotions have on parenting once aroused; and (c) processes parents use to understand and control emotions. Emotions are vital to effective parenting. When invested in the interest of chil…
The Affective Structure of Supportive Parenting
This study investigated the maternal concerns and emotions that may regulate one form of sensitive parenting, support for children's immediate desires or intentions. While reviewing a videotape of interactions with their 1-year-olds, mothers who varied on depressive symptoms reported concerns and emotions they had during the interaction. Emotions reflected outcomes either to children (child-oriented concerns) or to mothers themselves (parent-orie…
Interdependence among mothers, fathers, and children from early to middle childhood
Based on data from 710 2-parent families enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, this article examined dyadic and family-level interdependence among indicators of family members' competence over time. A cross-lagged model that included children and both parents was used to simultaneously test relations among observed maternal sensitivity, observed paternal sensitivi…
Can Developmental Changes in Inhibition and Peer Relationships Explain Why Depressive Symptoms Increase in Early Adolescence
Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support During Interactions with Toddlers
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14–27 month‐old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three dimensions of temperament: activity, anger proneness, and social fearfulness. As expected, activity predicted…
Connecting with Parents
When children act to involve mothers in positive interaction, they influence the amount, timing, and content of parent–child exchanges. By assessing children's smiling and positive initiation, we examined child behaviors that function to create positive interaction. In a non‐clinical North American sample of 103 mothers and their 14‐ to 27‐month‐olds, we observed that children attempted to connect positively with mothers (1) more with age, (2) mo…
Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s cognitive and social agency
Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,364), the present study supports an agentic perspective; it demonstrates that mothers' depressive symptoms in infancy predict children's poor first-grade cognitive functioning because depressive symptoms predict children's low social and cognitive agency-low motivation to initiate social interaction and activ…
Mothers' Implicit Theories of Discipline
Theodore Dix, Diane N. Ruble, Robert J. Zambarano, Mothers' Implicit Theories of Discipline: Child Effects, Parent Effects, and the Attribution Process, Child Development, Vol. 60, No. 6 (Dec., 1989), pp. 1373-1391
The affective organization of parenting
This article presents a 3-component model of parenting that places emotion at the heart of parental competence. The model emphasizes (a) child, parent, and contextual factors that activate parents' emotions; (b) orienting, organizing, and motivating effects that emotions have on parenting once aroused; and (c) processes parents use to understand and control emotions. Emotions are vital to effective parenting. When invested in the interest of chil…
The Affective Structure of Supportive Parenting
This study investigated the maternal concerns and emotions that may regulate one form of sensitive parenting, support for children's immediate desires or intentions. While reviewing a videotape of interactions with their 1-year-olds, mothers who varied on depressive symptoms reported concerns and emotions they had during the interaction. Emotions reflected outcomes either to children (child-oriented concerns) or to mothers themselves (parent-orie…
Connecting with Parents
When children act to involve mothers in positive interaction, they influence the amount, timing, and content of parent–child exchanges. By assessing children's smiling and positive initiation, we examined child behaviors that function to create positive interaction. In a non‐clinical North American sample of 103 mothers and their 14‐ to 27‐month‐olds, we observed that children attempted to connect positively with mothers (1) more with age, (2) mo…
Depressive symptoms and parenting competence
Mothers' Emotions and Behavioral Support During Interactions with Toddlers
This article examines mothers' support for children's interests and, specifically, emotional processes in mothers that may explain why they display different levels of support with children of different temperaments. We observed 114 mothers and their 14–27 month‐old children during a laboratory interaction. Mothers rated children on three dimensions of temperament: activity, anger proneness, and social fearfulness. As expected, activity predicted…
Can Developmental Changes in Inhibition and Peer Relationships Explain Why Depressive Symptoms Increase in Early Adolescence
Parenting and Naturally Occurring Declines in the Antisocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents
This review examines why, without clinical intervention, antisocial behavior tends to decline naturally as everyday family processes unfold over time. Despite considerable research on why antisocial behavior develops and interventions that reduce it, aspects of everyday parenting that lead antisocial behavior to decline in most children without intervention are poorly understood. We examined the positive parenting and child processes that may be …
Mothers’ depressive symptoms and children’s cognitive and social agency
Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,364), the present study supports an agentic perspective; it demonstrates that mothers' depressive symptoms in infancy predict children's poor first-grade cognitive functioning because depressive symptoms predict children's low social and cognitive agency-low motivation to initiate social interaction and activ…
Mothers’ depressive symptoms in infancy and children’s adjustment in grade school
On the basis of longitudinal data across 9 years, this study examined the contribution of sustained attention and executive function to the poor cognitive and socioemotional adjustment of school-age children whose mothers had depressive symptoms during the child's infancy. Mothers (N = 1,364) reported depressive symptoms across their child's infancy and early childhood. Maternal sensitivity was observed during laboratory interactions at 36 months…
Interdependence among mothers, fathers, and children from early to middle childhood
Based on data from 710 2-parent families enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, this article examined dyadic and family-level interdependence among indicators of family members' competence over time. A cross-lagged model that included children and both parents was used to simultaneously test relations among observed maternal sensitivity, observed paternal sensitivi…
Transient changes in mothers’ negative emotional reactivity predict changes in the intensity, persistence, and variability of their aversive behavior
Applying theories of emotion to understanding the regulation of aversive parenting, we used microanalytic observational methods to test whether transient changes in a mother's negative emotional reactivity predict changes over time in key parameters of her moment-to-moment aversive behavior: its intensity, variability, persistence, and connection to difficult child inputs. At multiple times over 2 years, 319 divorcing mothers and their 5- to 12-y…
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Depressive symptoms (6 works)