Martha Fitzgerald
Biographic Data
| ID | 6366389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Fitzgerald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzgerald |
| SIGNATURE | FITZGERALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Family Emotional Expressiveness as a Predictor of Early Adolescent Social and Psychological Adjustment
Parents' support of their children's emotional expressiveness was examined in relation to the children's social and psychological adjustment over a 3-year period. Nonhostile expression of emotion within the family (both observed and self-reported) appears to have provided a buffer against psychological problems over the transition to middle school and to have enhanced concurrent and long-term developmental outcomes, as evidenced by greater peer p…
The relation between grammatical development and mean length of utterance in morphemes
A widely held practice in many studies of child language development and disorders has been to employ an easily calculated numerical metric, mean length of utterance measured in morphemes (MLU), as a ‘general index of grammatical development’. While this practice seems to have found acceptance among many students of child language, the usefulness of MLU past Stage II has been assumed but never empirically tested. This study evaluated the grammati…
Family Emotional Expressiveness as a Predictor of Early Adolescent Social and Psychological Adjustment
Parents' support of their children's emotional expressiveness was examined in relation to the children's social and psychological adjustment over a 3-year period. Nonhostile expression of emotion within the family (both observed and self-reported) appears to have provided a buffer against psychological problems over the transition to middle school and to have enhanced concurrent and long-term developmental outcomes, as evidenced by greater peer p…
The relation between grammatical development and mean length of utterance in morphemes
A widely held practice in many studies of child language development and disorders has been to employ an easily calculated numerical metric, mean length of utterance measured in morphemes (MLU), as a ‘general index of grammatical development’. While this practice seems to have found acceptance among many students of child language, the usefulness of MLU past Stage II has been assumed but never empirically tested. This study evaluated the grammati…
Family Emotional Expressiveness as a Predictor of Early Adolescent Social and Psychological Adjustment
Parents' support of their children's emotional expressiveness was examined in relation to the children's social and psychological adjustment over a 3-year period. Nonhostile expression of emotion within the family (both observed and self-reported) appears to have provided a buffer against psychological problems over the transition to middle school and to have enhanced concurrent and long-term developmental outcomes, as evidenced by greater peer p…
Developmental psychology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (1 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Emotional expression (1 works) · Emotionality (1 works) · Grammatical category (1 works) · Language acquisition (1 works) · Language development (1 works)