Martha J Zaslow

Biographic Data

ID180128
NAMEMartha J Zaslow
GIVEN NAMESMartha J
FAMILY NAMEZaslow
SIGNATUREZASLOW M J
AFFILIATIONSChild Trends, Inc.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS74
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX5

  • Longitudinal prediction of child outcomes from differing measures of parenting in a low-income sample

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2006Cited by: 23References: 29

    This study examined predictions from preschool parenting measures to middle childhood cognitive and socioemotional child outcomes to explore whether parenting assessment methodologies that require more time, training, and expense yield better predictions of child outcomes than less intensive methodologies. Mother-child dyads (N = 278) in low-income African American families were assessed when the child was in preschool, using maternal report, the…

  • The Estimated Effect of Maternal Employment on Children Under Mandatory and Non-Mandatory Employment Circumstances

    Sharon M Mcgroder, Martha J Zaslow et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2005Cited by: 3References: 17

    Maternal employment's association with young school-age children's academic and behavioural outcomes was examined in a sample of families currently or recently receiving welfare. The sample comprised 1,197 African-American mothers and their preschool-age children who were randomly assigned either to the ‘human capital development’ (HCD) programme, the ‘labor force attachment’ (LFA) programme or to the control group in the Atlanta site of the Chil…

  • Poverty and Welfare Patterns: Implications for Children

    Open AccessKristin Anderson Moore, Dana A Glei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2002Cited by: 10

    In 1996, the US federal government passed welfare reform legislation. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) altered greatly the circumstances under which families can receive public assistance, limiting receipt to 5 years, requiring work after 24 months, and allowing states to impose sanctions and other requirements such as family caps (Greenberg, 1999). Because many countries reforming their social welfare …

  • Welfare families' use of early childhood care and education programs, and implications for their children's development

    Open AccessMartha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly1998Cited by: 4References: 4

  • When Low-Income Mothers Go to Work: Implications for Children

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEThe Future of Children1997Cited by: 13References: 5

    When mothers who have depended on welfare become employed, the change affects not only welfare budgets and the women themselves, but the daily lives of the children who make up two-thirds of the welfare population. This article is the first of a set of three that consider what we know--and do not know--about the likely effects that a mother's moving from welfare to work will have on her children. This article gives an overview of research studies…

  • The family support act and children: Potential pathways of influence

    Open AccessMartha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review1995Cited by: 6References: 14

  • Examining Observational Measures of Emotional Support and Cognitive Stimulation in Black and White Mothers of Preschoolers

    Open AccessLisa J Berlin, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues1995Cited by: 8References: 34

    In this study we drew on the Infant Health and Development Program to examine two sets of observational measures of parenting behavior. First, correlations between the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Warmth subscale and a Supportive Presence scale, and between the HOME Learning subscale and a Quality of Assistance scale were examined. There were moderate correlations between the two emotional support scales and between …

  • Priorities for research on adolescent development

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1993

  • Priorities for research on adolescent development

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1993

    Research on the development of adolescents has made significant progress in the past 10-15 years, but is not yet fully mature. Future research must (a) deepen the recent work in understanding normal adolescent development, particularly among American youth from understudied racial and ethnic minority groups and through more longitudinal studies; (b) balance pressures to implement urgent preventive interventions for adolescents with the need for s…

  • Perinatal loss and maternal attitudes toward the subsequent child

    Open AccessSusan K Theut, Howard A Moss et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal1992References: 13

    Twenty-five mothers who had experienced a previous perinatal loss and a comparison group of 30 nonloss mothers completed the Maternal Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) and the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale (MSAS) when their children were 16 months old. The purposes of the study were to describe and evaluate the development of a new measure (the MAQ) and to examine the hypothesis that mothers who experienced a perinatal loss would express (a) more …

  • Variation in Child Care Quality and Its Implications for Children

    Open AccessMartha J Zaslow, Martha ZaslowARTICLEJournal of Social Issues1991Cited by: 4References: 24

    The “first wave” of day care research, asking whether the development of children in day care and home‐reared children differs, has gradually given way to a “second wave” of research, asking what are the implications for children's development of variation in day care quality. Although this second wave of day care research is still actively underway, it is a fruitful time to evaluate how far we have come in our understanding of day care quality. …

  • Who Cares for America's Children? Child Care Policy for the 1990s

    Gail L Zellman, Cheryl D Hayes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1991

  • Who cares for America's children?: Child Care Policy for the 1990s

    Cheryl D Hayes, John Logan Palmer et al.BOOKWho cares for America's children?1990

  • Maternal employment and parent-infant interaction at one year

    Open AccessMartha J Zaslow, Martha Zaslow et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly1989Cited by: 3References: 5

  • Sex differences in children’s response to parental divorce: 2. Samples, variables, ages, and sources

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha ZaslowARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1989References: 46

    This second of a two-part review examines four possibilities for explaining the discrepancy across studies in findings of sex differences in children's responses to parental divorce: sample type, nature of outcome variables, age of the child, and sources of data. Recommendations are made for further research that could clarify the nature and origins of differences by child gender in reactions to parental divorce. Part 1, reviewing research method…

  • Sex differences in children’s response to parental divorce: 1. Research methodology and postdivorce family forms

    Martha J Zaslow, Martha ZaslowARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1988References: 49

    This two-part review documents inconsistencies in the empirical basis for the hypothesis that boys are more negatively affected than are girls by parental divorce. An attempt is made to move beyond a global hypothesis to one specifying circumstances for the pattern. Part 1 asks whether methodological adequacy or postdivorce family forms in the studies help explain the discrepancy across studies that examine sex differences in children's response …

  • Dimensions of naturally occurring mother-infant separations during the first year of life

    Open AccessJoan T D Suwalsky, Robert P Klein et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal1987References: 15

    The goals of this paper are (1) to introduce a methodology developed to study mother-infant separations that occur in the context of normal family life, including but going beyond separations associated with maternal employment; (2) to present illustrative data that describe the range of separations experienced by one sample of infants; and (3) to demonstrate how a focus on specific underlying dimensions results in a more precise characterization…

  • Cesarean childbirth: Psychological implications for mothers and fathers

    Open AccessFrank A Pedersen, Martha J Zaslow et al.ARTICLEInfant Mental Health Journal1981References: 7

    Home observations, ratings of interaction, and interviews were carried out in families with first-born 5-month-old infants. Comparisons were made between two groups of families differing as to whether the childbirth had been a Cesarean or vaginal delivery. Fathers whose babies had been born by Cesarean delivery reported greater involvement in child care and were rated as more responsive to infant distress. Both mothers and fathers tended to show …