Marsha Weinraub
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marsha Weinraub |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marsha |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinraub |
| SIGNATURE | WEINRAUB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7916-3819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
This is hard!” Children’s and parents’ talk about difficulty during dyadic interactions
Children's beliefs about the contribution of effort and ability to success and failure shape their decisions to persist or give up on challenging tasks, with consequences for their academic success. But how do children learn about the concept of "challenge"? Prior work has shown that parents' verbal responses to success and failure shape children's motivational beliefs. In this study, we explore another type of talk-parent and child talk about di…
Fathers’ and mothers’ praise and spatial language during play with first graders
Parents provide motivational and cognitive support within the same interaction, yet researchers have investigated these separately. We examined two key aspects of parental support, praise (motivational support) and spatial language (cognitive support), from fathers and mothers during three tasks with their first-grade children (6-7-year-olds; N = 107; 56 girls; 72.0% White, 23.4% Black). Parents' praise and spatial language varied by task but not…
Intergenerational transmission of maternal employment moderated by recollections of early maternal availability
Does mothers' employment predict the subsequent maternal employment of their daughters? Social learning theory suggests that modeling should increase under more positive relationship conditions. We examined the congruence between mothers' maternal employment and daughters' maternal employment longitudinally across 4 periods of parenthood and as a function of the daughters' retrospective reports of her mother's emotional availability during the da…
Child Care in America
This essay reviews four books about work and care provision in the United States and other comparable countries: An Equal Start: Providing Quality Early Education and Care for Disadvantaged Children, edited by Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, and Jane Waldfogel; Work and Care under Pressure: Care Arrangements across Europe, edited by Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin, and Trudie Knijn; For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States, edited…
Patterns of developmental change in infants' nighttime sleep awakenings from 6 through 36 months of age
Nighttime sleep awakenings and infant and family characteristics were measured longitudinally in more than 1,200 infants when the infants were 6, 15, 24, and 36 months old. By 6 months of age, the majority of children slept through the night, awakening their mothers only about once or twice per week. However, not all children followed this predominant developmental pattern. Using growth mixture modeling, we identified 2 distinct developmental pat…
Child care subsidies post Tanf
The Social Network
The concept of attachment is reviewed and is found to be somewhat confusing and restrictive. An alternative to this concept, a social network approach, is offered to clarify the issues central to the study of social relationships. First, the following definition features of attachment are critically examined: (1) the affectionate quality of the relationship; (2) the role of proximity-seeking and maintaining behaviors; (3) the enduring quality of …
Child care effects in context
Main and interactive effects of child care quality, stability, and multiplicity on infants' attachment security, language comprehension, language production, and cognitive development at 15 months were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care. Thirty-nine percent of the infants in this sample experienced arrangement change, and 46% experienced multiple concurrent arran…
Subsidizing child care
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
The stability of parenting behaviors over the first 6 years of life
Barriers to subsidies
The More Things Change…Single Parenting Revisited
Weinraub and Wolf investigated maternal and preschool child functioning in households headed by solo mothers. Solo mothers—nonadolescent women raising children from birth without a male partner—differed from demographically matched, married counterparts with regard to stress and social supports, yet no differences in child outcomes were observed. Twenty-eight families (70%) from that original sample were reassessed as children entered preadolesce…
Early nonmaternal care and infant attachment
The current empirical controversy concerning the effects of early nonmaternal care on the quality of infant-mother attachment is, in part, the product of fundamental theoretical differences among researchers
Predicting infant outcome in families of employed and nonemployed mothers
The Development of Sex Role Stereotypes in the Third Year
Marsha Weinraub, Lynda Pritchard Clemens, Alan Sockloff, Teresa Ethridge, Edward Gracely, Barbara Myers, The Development of Sex Role Stereotypes in the Third Year: Relationships to Gender Labeling, Gender Identity, Sex-Types Toy Preference, and Family Characteristics, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp. 1493-1503
Effects of Stress and Social Supports on Mother-Child Interactions in Single- and Two-Parent Families
Maternal speech
The existing data concerning the effects of maternal speech on child language development are so conflicting that it is difficult to draw even tentative conclusions about this relationship. One potential contributor to this problem is our lack of information concerning the determinants of maternal speech. The present study was designed to separate those elements of maternal speech which are heavily influenced by child language levels from those t…
Origins of early sex-role development
Physical barriers and psychological reactance
Child care effects in context
Main and interactive effects of child care quality, stability, and multiplicity on infants' attachment security, language comprehension, language production, and cognitive development at 15 months were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care. Thirty-nine percent of the infants in this sample experienced arrangement change, and 46% experienced multiple concurrent arran…
The stability of parenting behaviors over the first 6 years of life
Barriers to subsidies
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
Subsidizing child care
Origins of early sex-role development
Patterns of developmental change in infants' nighttime sleep awakenings from 6 through 36 months of age
Nighttime sleep awakenings and infant and family characteristics were measured longitudinally in more than 1,200 infants when the infants were 6, 15, 24, and 36 months old. By 6 months of age, the majority of children slept through the night, awakening their mothers only about once or twice per week. However, not all children followed this predominant developmental pattern. Using growth mixture modeling, we identified 2 distinct developmental pat…
Physical barriers and psychological reactance
Predicting infant outcome in families of employed and nonemployed mothers
Child care subsidies post Tanf
Fathers’ and mothers’ praise and spatial language during play with first graders
Parents provide motivational and cognitive support within the same interaction, yet researchers have investigated these separately. We examined two key aspects of parental support, praise (motivational support) and spatial language (cognitive support), from fathers and mothers during three tasks with their first-grade children (6-7-year-olds; N = 107; 56 girls; 72.0% White, 23.4% Black). Parents' praise and spatial language varied by task but not…
This is hard!” Children’s and parents’ talk about difficulty during dyadic interactions
Children's beliefs about the contribution of effort and ability to success and failure shape their decisions to persist or give up on challenging tasks, with consequences for their academic success. But how do children learn about the concept of "challenge"? Prior work has shown that parents' verbal responses to success and failure shape children's motivational beliefs. In this study, we explore another type of talk-parent and child talk about di…
Intergenerational transmission of maternal employment moderated by recollections of early maternal availability
Does mothers' employment predict the subsequent maternal employment of their daughters? Social learning theory suggests that modeling should increase under more positive relationship conditions. We examined the congruence between mothers' maternal employment and daughters' maternal employment longitudinally across 4 periods of parenthood and as a function of the daughters' retrospective reports of her mother's emotional availability during the da…
Physical barriers and psychological reactance
Origins of early sex-role development
Effects of Stress and Social Supports on Mother-Child Interactions in Single- and Two-Parent Families
Maternal speech
The existing data concerning the effects of maternal speech on child language development are so conflicting that it is difficult to draw even tentative conclusions about this relationship. One potential contributor to this problem is our lack of information concerning the determinants of maternal speech. The present study was designed to separate those elements of maternal speech which are heavily influenced by child language levels from those t…
The Development of Sex Role Stereotypes in the Third Year
Marsha Weinraub, Lynda Pritchard Clemens, Alan Sockloff, Teresa Ethridge, Edward Gracely, Barbara Myers, The Development of Sex Role Stereotypes in the Third Year: Relationships to Gender Labeling, Gender Identity, Sex-Types Toy Preference, and Family Characteristics, Child Development, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp. 1493-1503
Predicting infant outcome in families of employed and nonemployed mothers
Early nonmaternal care and infant attachment
The current empirical controversy concerning the effects of early nonmaternal care on the quality of infant-mother attachment is, in part, the product of fundamental theoretical differences among researchers
The More Things Change…Single Parenting Revisited
Weinraub and Wolf investigated maternal and preschool child functioning in households headed by solo mothers. Solo mothers—nonadolescent women raising children from birth without a male partner—differed from demographically matched, married counterparts with regard to stress and social supports, yet no differences in child outcomes were observed. Twenty-eight families (70%) from that original sample were reassessed as children entered preadolesce…
Barriers to subsidies
Subsidizing child care
Teasing apart the child care conundrum
The stability of parenting behaviors over the first 6 years of life
Child care effects in context
Main and interactive effects of child care quality, stability, and multiplicity on infants' attachment security, language comprehension, language production, and cognitive development at 15 months were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care. Thirty-nine percent of the infants in this sample experienced arrangement change, and 46% experienced multiple concurrent arran…
The Social Network
The concept of attachment is reviewed and is found to be somewhat confusing and restrictive. An alternative to this concept, a social network approach, is offered to clarify the issues central to the study of social relationships. First, the following definition features of attachment are critically examined: (1) the affectionate quality of the relationship; (2) the role of proximity-seeking and maintaining behaviors; (3) the enduring quality of …
Child care subsidies post Tanf
Patterns of developmental change in infants' nighttime sleep awakenings from 6 through 36 months of age
Nighttime sleep awakenings and infant and family characteristics were measured longitudinally in more than 1,200 infants when the infants were 6, 15, 24, and 36 months old. By 6 months of age, the majority of children slept through the night, awakening their mothers only about once or twice per week. However, not all children followed this predominant developmental pattern. Using growth mixture modeling, we identified 2 distinct developmental pat…
Child Care in America
This essay reviews four books about work and care provision in the United States and other comparable countries: An Equal Start: Providing Quality Early Education and Care for Disadvantaged Children, edited by Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, and Jane Waldfogel; Work and Care under Pressure: Care Arrangements across Europe, edited by Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin, and Trudie Knijn; For Love and Money: Care Provision in the United States, edited…
Intergenerational transmission of maternal employment moderated by recollections of early maternal availability
Does mothers' employment predict the subsequent maternal employment of their daughters? Social learning theory suggests that modeling should increase under more positive relationship conditions. We examined the congruence between mothers' maternal employment and daughters' maternal employment longitudinally across 4 periods of parenthood and as a function of the daughters' retrospective reports of her mother's emotional availability during the da…
Fathers’ and mothers’ praise and spatial language during play with first graders
Parents provide motivational and cognitive support within the same interaction, yet researchers have investigated these separately. We examined two key aspects of parental support, praise (motivational support) and spatial language (cognitive support), from fathers and mothers during three tasks with their first-grade children (6-7-year-olds; N = 107; 56 girls; 72.0% White, 23.4% Black). Parents' praise and spatial language varied by task but not…
This is hard!” Children’s and parents’ talk about difficulty during dyadic interactions
Children's beliefs about the contribution of effort and ability to success and failure shape their decisions to persist or give up on challenging tasks, with consequences for their academic success. But how do children learn about the concept of "challenge"? Prior work has shown that parents' verbal responses to success and failure shape children's motivational beliefs. In this study, we explore another type of talk-parent and child talk about di…
Psychology (17 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works) · Child care (4 works)