Thomas G Power
Biographic Data
| ID | 212197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Power |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Power |
| SIGNATURE | POWER T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6071-1849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 463 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Food parenting practices, family meals, and preschoolers’ dietary intake: A study of Hispanic families with low incomes
Youth Perspectives on the Effects of a Family-centered Media Literacy Intervention to Encourage Healthier Eating
A pretest-posttest field test with control group (N = 189 parent-child dyads) tested a structural model representing youths' (ages 9-14) perspectives to examine the efficacy of a family-centered, media literacy-oriented intervention promoting fruit and vegetable consumption. The intervention facilitated critical discussion about nutrition and media, mentored by the parent. Results showed that youths' increases in fruit and vegetable consumption f…
The efficacy of the Peace Ambassador Project: Promoting children’s emotional intelligence to address aggression in the early childhood classroom
This paper presents an evaluation of the Early Childhood Education Peace Ambassadors Programme. • In 16 Hong Kong kindergartens, one class implemented the programme and another served as a control. • Compared to controls, children in the programme showed increases in emotional intelligence. • Programme children showed less aggression and more helpful responses to the aggression of others. • The programme appears to be an effective way to address …
Effectiveness of mixed-mode parenting training program during the Covid-19 pandemic: A quasi-experiment study in Hong Kong
Perceived Changes in Social Connectedness Across the Life Course: A Mixed Method Approach
Social connection is important across the life course, but overall levels have been declining. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique context to examine social connectedness and adaptive capacity in times of social adversity. We used a parallel mixed method design to collect online survey data from a representative U.S. sample (N = 359). Applying an exploratory sequential approach, we used a general linear model multivariate approach to repeate…
Child Weight Status: The Role of Feeding Styles and Highly Motivated Eating in Children
Although parental feeding plays an important role in child eating and weight status, high food motivation among children may also be a factor shaping how feeding impacts child weight. This study explored whether individual differences in preschool children's food motivation interacted with mothers' feeding styles in predicting subsequent child weight status. Participants included 129 Hispanic Head Start mother/child dyads. Data were collected at …
Control/value appraisals and achievement emotions in primary school children in Hong Kong: The mediating role of academic coping
Maternal Feeding Styles and Child Appetitive Traits: Direction of Effects in Hispanic Families With Low Incomes
Feeding styles of parents have been associated with dietary quality/intake and weight outcomes; however, much of the research to date has been cross sectional and the direction of influence unclear. This prospective longitudinal study evaluated the direction of effects between feeding styles and child appetitive traits over time in a sample of 129 Hispanic parent/child dyads that participated in a larger study. Data analyzed for the current study…
Self-regulatory processes in early childhood as predictors of Hispanic children's BMI z-scores during the elementary school years: Differences by acculturation and gender
General Parenting and Hispanic Mothers’ Feeding Practices and Styles
Previous research has shown that general parenting styles, general parenting dimensions, maternal feeding styles, and maternal feeding practices all show specific relationships with the weight status of young children. This study examined the relationships between general parenting and maternal feeding styles/practices in a sample of 187 Hispanic mothers with low incomes. As part of a larger study, mothers of preschool children were recruited thr…
Health Behaviors at the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives: We examined perceived behavior change since implementation of physical distancing restrictions and identified modifiable (self-rated health, resilience, depressive symptoms, social support and subjective wellbeing) and non-modifiable (demographics) risk/protective factors. Methods: A representative US sample (N = 362) completed an online survey about potential risk/protective factors and health behaviors prior to the pandemic and afte…
Evaluation of a Program to Help Low-Income, Latina Mothers Help Their Children Cope With Stress
Parental Depressive Symptoms, Parent Attributional Style, and Child Coping as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Children of Parents with Anxiety or Mood Disorders
Few studies have examined the effects of parental depressive symptoms on children in China. The present study examined the relationships between parental depression, parental attributional style, children's coping strategies and 5-12-year-old children's depressive symptoms in a sample of Chinese children whose parents had been diagnosed with an anxiety or a mood disorder. The present study confirmed that children of parents with anxiety or mood d…
Chinese mother’s scaffolding of young children’s responses to stress and children’s depressive symptoms during the first year of primary school
The transition to primary school in Hong Kong is stressful for young children primarily due to increases in pressure for academic performance from teachers and parents. Researchers suggest that these pressures might account for the higher level of depressive symptoms seen in children from China and other Eastern countries than in Western settings. The current study examined whether maternal strategies for helping children cope with the stresses o…
Low-Income Latina Mothers’ Scaffolding of Preschoolers’ Behavior in A Stressful Situation and Children’s Self-Regulation: A Longitudinal Study
The findings highlight the importance of physical guidance in Latina/o families and suggest that highly directive maternal strategies may not interfere with the development of self-regulation as is often found in European American families. These findings will be useful in developing interventions to promote self-regulation in Latina/o children from low-income families
Coparenting, Parenting Stress, and Authoritative Parenting among Hong Kong Chinese Mothers and Fathers
SYNOPSISObjective.This paper examines whether the effects of spousal coparenting on authoritative parenting are mediated through parenting stress. Design. A total of 166 married, heterosexual couples in Hong Kong with a preschool child provided information about their spouse’s level of cooperation and triangulation in their coparenting relationship at Time 1; their own parenting stress at Times 1 & 2; and their authoritative parenting at Times 1,…
Child weight status and accuracy of perceived child weight status as predictors of Latina mothers’ feeding practices and styles
Toddlers’ impulsivity, inhibitory control, and maternal eating-related supervision in relation to toddler body mass index: Direct and interactive effects
Exploratory factor analysis of The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) in a low-income hispanic sample of preschool aged children
The association of TV viewing during dinner meals with quality of dietary intake and BMI z-scores among low income, ethnic minority preschool children
The Food Parenting Inventory: Factor structure, reliability, and validity in a low-income, Latina sample
Childhood depressive symptoms during the transition to primary school in Hong Kong: Comparison of child and maternal reports
Predicting preschool children's eating in the absence of hunger from maternal pressure to eat: A longitudinal study of low-income, Latina mothers
Observed and self-reported assessments of caregivers' feeding styles: Variable- and person-centered approaches for examining relationships with children's eating behaviors
Development and preliminary validation of the Parenting around SNAcking Questionnaire (P-SNAQ)
Revisiting a neglected construct: Parenting styles in a child-feeding context
Measuring feeding in low-income African–American and Hispanic parents
Susceptibility to Antisocial Peer Pressure and Its Relation to Acculturation in Mexican-American Adolescents
Antisocial hypothetical situations modeled after those developed by Thomas Berndt and an abridged version of an acculturation questionnaire by Susan Keefe and Amado Padilla were used to examine the relation between susceptibility to antisocial peer pressure and acculturation among a sample of low socioeconomic status (SES) and working-class Mexican-American adolescents (Grades 9 through 12). Multiple regression was used to predict susceptibility …
Parents’ perceptions of preschool children’s ability to regulate eating. Feeding style differences
Compliance and self-assertion: Young children's responses to mothers versus fathers
To provide data on the development of compliace and self-assertion toward mothers and fathers, 2-, 4-, and 6-year-old children were observed in their homes. Compared with younger children, older children were more compliant, more likely to use logical argument, and less likely to ignore or to show defiance. Two-year-olds showed more ignoring of their fathers, whereas 4-years-olds were more ignoring of their mothers and showed greater compliance t…
Childrearing and impulse control in toddlers: A naturalistic investigation
Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points
Stress and Coping in Childhood: The Parents' Role
Despite the growing literature on how parenting predicts children's adjustment to potentially stressful events, little is know about the specific mechanisms through which these effects operate. This review identifies some possible paths of parental influence by specifying ways that parents may influence each step of the coping process-from exposure to the potentially stressful event to event appraisal to child coping. Current stress and coping re…
Executive functioning, emotion regulation, eating self-regulation, and weight status in low-income preschool children: How do they relate
Exploring the effects of maternal eating patterns on maternal feeding and child eating
Getting my child to eat the right amount. Mothers' considerations when deciding how much food to offer their child at a meal
Social network factors and the transition to parenthood
Mothers' Awareness of their Early Adolescents' Stressors: Relation between Awareness and Adolescent Adjustment
The goal of this study was to examine relations among mothers'awareness of their early adolescents' stressors, mother/adolescent communication, and adolescent problem behaviors. Ninth-graders and their mothers completed a stress inventory for high school students, a parent/adolescent communication scale, and a checklist for adolescents' anxious/depressed and aggressive behaviors. The results showed that adolescents reported experiencing more stre…
Parents as socializers: Maternal and paternal views
Parent emotional distress and feeding styles in low-income families. The role of parent depression and parenting stress
Ethnic, Social Class, and Gender Differences in Adolescent Drinking: Examining Multiple Aspects of Consumption
The independent effects of ethnicity and social class on multiple aspects of adolescent drinking were examined. African American, European American, and Mexican American high school students (1,134 females, 740 males) from three social classes completed measures of drinking frequency and quantity, drinking consequences, reasons for drinking, and the social context of drinking. Overall, European American students showed the highest frequency and q…
The Food Parenting Inventory: Factor structure, reliability, and validity in a low-income, Latina sample
Association Between Mother and Adolescent Reports for Assessing Relations Between Parent–Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Adjustment
Predicting preschool children's eating in the absence of hunger from maternal pressure to eat: A longitudinal study of low-income, Latina mothers
Latina mothers' influences on child appetite regulation
Adolescents and Music Media: Toward an Involvement-Mediational Model of Consumption and Self-Concept
Using social cognitive theory and structural regression modeling, we examined pathways between early adolescents' music media consumption, involvement with music media, and 3 domains of self-concept (physical appearance, romantic appeal, and global self-worth; N=124). A mediational model was supported for 2 domains of self-concept. Music media consumption was positively associated with adolescents' involvement with media focusing on music persona…
Assessment of individual differences in infant exploration and play
Exploratory factor analysis of The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) in a low-income hispanic sample of preschool aged children
Child weight status and accuracy of perceived child weight status as predictors of Latina mothers’ feeding practices and styles
Observed and self-reported assessments of caregivers' feeding styles: Variable- and person-centered approaches for examining relationships with children's eating behaviors
The Adolescent Father's Impact on the Mother and Child
The adolescent father's impact on the mother and child is the focus of this review. Research on the father‐infant relationship is reviewed and the role of the father as caregiver and playmate is emphasized. The consequences of the adolescent father's participation for the development of the infant's cognitive and social‐emotional development is examined. A model that distinguishes direct and indirect paths of influence for adolescent fathers is p…
Sex-typing in infancy: The role of the father
Recent research on mother-infant interaction has provided little empirical support for the role of environmental factors in early sex-role development. In this paper, considerable support for the father's role is presented. Specifically, the research on mother- and father-infant interaction patterns is reviewed in order to describe developmental changes in the nature of differential treatment of the sexes during the first two years of life. Toget…
Social network factors and the transition to parenthood
Assessment of individual differences in infant exploration and play
Childrearing and impulse control in toddlers: A naturalistic investigation
Parents as socializers: Maternal and paternal views
Child Rearing and Compliance: Japanese and American Families in Houston
The relation between parental child-rearing practices and child compliance was examined in two groups of middle- to upper-middle-class parents in Houston, Texas: 20 Japanese families temporarily living in the city and 18 Caucasian American families. The children were 4- to 7-year-olds enrolled in summer sessions in a private preschool/elementary school. Mothers and fathers were interviewed separately about their child-rearing practices, and paren…
Determinants of Disciplinary Practices in Low-Income Black Mothers
Susceptibility to Antisocial Peer Pressure and Its Relation to Acculturation in Mexican-American Adolescents
Antisocial hypothetical situations modeled after those developed by Thomas Berndt and an abridged version of an acculturation questionnaire by Susan Keefe and Amado Padilla were used to examine the relation between susceptibility to antisocial peer pressure and acculturation among a sample of low socioeconomic status (SES) and working-class Mexican-American adolescents (Grades 9 through 12). Multiple regression was used to predict susceptibility …
Compliance and self-assertion: Young children's responses to mothers versus fathers
To provide data on the development of compliace and self-assertion toward mothers and fathers, 2-, 4-, and 6-year-old children were observed in their homes. Compared with younger children, older children were more compliant, more likely to use logical argument, and less likely to ignore or to show defiance. Two-year-olds showed more ignoring of their fathers, whereas 4-years-olds were more ignoring of their mothers and showed greater compliance t…
Mothers' Awareness of their Early Adolescents' Stressors: Relation between Awareness and Adolescent Adjustment
The goal of this study was to examine relations among mothers'awareness of their early adolescents' stressors, mother/adolescent communication, and adolescent problem behaviors. Ninth-graders and their mothers completed a stress inventory for high school students, a parent/adolescent communication scale, and a checklist for adolescents' anxious/depressed and aggressive behaviors. The results showed that adolescents reported experiencing more stre…
Relations among Single Mothers’ Awareness of their Adolescents’ Stressors, Maternal Monitoring, Mother-Adolescent Communication, and Adolescent Adjustment
The goal of this study was to examine the relations among mothers’ awareness of their adolescents’ stressors, mother-adolescent communication, maternal monitoring, and adolescent adjustment in single-parent families. Measures of adolescent stress, communication, monitoring, and adolescents’ anxious/depressed and aggressive behaviors were completed by 82 adolescents and their single mothers. The findings indicated that single mothers were aware of…
Association Between Mother and Adolescent Reports for Assessing Relations Between Parent–Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Adjustment
Ethnic, Social Class, and Gender Differences in Adolescent Drinking: Examining Multiple Aspects of Consumption
The independent effects of ethnicity and social class on multiple aspects of adolescent drinking were examined. African American, European American, and Mexican American high school students (1,134 females, 740 males) from three social classes completed measures of drinking frequency and quantity, drinking consequences, reasons for drinking, and the social context of drinking. Overall, European American students showed the highest frequency and q…
Stress and Coping in Childhood: The Parents' Role
Despite the growing literature on how parenting predicts children's adjustment to potentially stressful events, little is know about the specific mechanisms through which these effects operate. This review identifies some possible paths of parental influence by specifying ways that parents may influence each step of the coping process-from exposure to the potentially stressful event to event appraisal to child coping. Current stress and coping re…
Regulation of Emotion and Behavior Among 3- and 5-Year-Olds
In this cross-sectional study, the authors examined the relationship between emotion and behavior regulation in 3- and 5-year olds. Eighty-seven children performed a compliance sorting task. The authors manipulated the demand for emotion regulation by presenting and then hiding toys (low) or making toys visible (high). Mothers and teachers rated children's coping responses. Five-year-olds sorted less in the high condition than in the low conditio…
Children's Appraisal of Major Life Events
Two hundred nine 9-12-year-olds completed items assessing their appraisal of the most stressful event in the past 5 months. Exploratory factor analyses revealed 6 appraisal dimensions (Self- Blame, External Blame, Degree of Threat, Significance, Gain, and Predictability) and 2 expectancy dimensions (Positive Outcome and Duration Expectancies). Situational variations were found for the appraisal dimensions, with the exception of Gain, Outcome, and…
Revisiting a neglected construct: Parenting styles in a child-feeding context
Measuring feeding in low-income African–American and Hispanic parents
Maternal Protectiveness and Child Adjustment: A Multidimensional Study
SYNOPSIS Objective . The purposes of this study were to identify multiple dimensions of maternal protectiveness and to examine their relations with demographic factors, child characteristics, and children's psychological adjustment. Design . One hundred and seven mothers of 8- to 13-year-old children completed questionnaires on child temperament and maternal protectiveness. Teachers completed questionnaires on children's social-emotional adjustme…
Adolescents and Music Media: Toward an Involvement-Mediational Model of Consumption and Self-Concept
Using social cognitive theory and structural regression modeling, we examined pathways between early adolescents' music media consumption, involvement with music media, and 3 domains of self-concept (physical appearance, romantic appeal, and global self-worth; N=124). A mediational model was supported for 2 domains of self-concept. Music media consumption was positively associated with adolescents' involvement with media focusing on music persona…
Caregiver’s Feeding Styles Questionnaire. Establishing cutoff points
Parenting Dimensions and Styles: A Brief History and Recommendations for Future Research
Over the last decade, researchers have uncovered relationships between general parenting styles and children's obesity. This is an emerging area of research, and there currently is a great deal of interest in the parent's role. This review was written to provide researchers entering this area with a historical introduction to parenting research and to point to some directions for future inquiry. Over the last 75 years, considerable insight has be…
Origins of Effortful Control: Infant and Parent Contributions
Effortful control (EC) refers to the ability to inhibit a dominant response to perform a subdominant one and has been shown as protective against a myriad of difficulties. Research examining precursors of EC has been limited to date, and in this study, infancy contributors to toddler EC were examined. Specifically, parent/family background variables (e.g., education, income), maternal temperament, perceived stress, and internalizing symptoms were…
Exploring the effects of maternal eating patterns on maternal feeding and child eating
Psychology (60 works) · Developmental psychology (56 works) · Medicine (34 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (27 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (24 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (23 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (23 works) · Clinical Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (18 works)