Identification and Child Rearing, 1958 (doi:10.7910/DVN/611N2L)

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Identification and Child Rearing, 1958

doi:10.7910/DVN/611N2L

Harvard Dataverse

2007-11-28

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Sears, Robert R., 1980, "Identification and Child Rearing, 1958", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/611N2L, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:HWFo6qs9ag9mcOe37ZZhRg== [fileUNF]

Identification and Child Rearing, 1958

doi:10.7910/DVN/611N2L

00578

Sears, Robert R.

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

1980

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/611N2L

Social Sciences

mra, 50 or fewer, female, male, 0-5, mixed, White, middle, 2, Mental health, Family

This research was undertaken to explore the process of identification in young children as it relates to the development of sex-role stereotyping, adult role formation, self-control, self-recrimination, prosocial forms of aggression, guilt feelings, and other expressions of conscience. The study tested the intercorrelations among various behaviors seen as reflecting identification, and looked at child-rearing antecedents of these behaviors as well. <br /><br /> The sample consisted of 40 nursery school children, 21 boys and 19 girls, and their parents. The children's mean age was 4 3/4 years and the parents ranged in age from 22 to 45 years.<br /><br /> Parental data were collected by taped interviews. Forty mothers and 40 fathers were interviewed separately using similar forms. Interviews inquired about caretaking activities; methods of handling early feeding, toilet training, disobedience, sexual activity, dependency, and aggression; attitudes and feelings about the child's independence, achievement, moral behavior, self-control, responsibility, and adult-typed and sex-role-stereotyped behavior; and family atmosphere and parents' attitudes toward themselves and each other. Paper-and-pencil instruments consisted of a demographic data sheet, mother's attitude scales, a child behavior-maturity scale answered by mothers, and a Winterbottom scale measuring the mother's pressure on her child to develop independence. Observational measures were two half-hour observations of mother-child interaction, and time-sampled behavioral observations of the child's activities while at school. The extensive child assessment included a variety of scales, experimental situation, and projective play techniques which tapped preference for sex-typed activities and roles, tendency to assume an adult role, resistance to temptation, guilt responses, and manipulative fantasy behavior. <br /><br /> The Murray Research Archive holds all numeric file data from parent and child measures. Typed transcripts of the mother and father interviews are also part of the collection.

1950-1960

1958-

United States

individuals

field study

quota sample

interview, psychological tests

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

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<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "http://www.murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.<p><b>All "application to use data" forms will be submitted to a screening committee for review and approval.</b></p>

• Number of cases: 40

• No. of variables per record: 550

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data for Study in Tab Delimited Format

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00578Sears-Identification-BoxCoverSheets.pdf

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Describes contents of each box of a paper data set

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00578Sears-Identification-Codebook.pdf

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Description of coded data variables

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00578Sears-Identification-Data.por

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Data for Study in SPSS Portable Format

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00578Sears-Identification-Measures.pdf

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Collection of blank measures used in the study

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00578Sears-Identification-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

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Legal agreement between data depositor and the Murray Archive

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00578Sears-Identification-PaperData.pdf

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Interview Transcripts

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00578Sears-Identification-PaperDataInventory.pdf

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Inventory of data on each participant and measures

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00578Sears-Identification-StudyDescription.pdf

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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