Specifically, parenting practices of low SES African-American and Latino caregivers are not simply power assertive and include a number of dimensions, including warmth, reasoning, and child-oriented parenting that are common to the wider literature on parenting practices (see Grusec, 2006). As theoretically expected, higher levels of maternal warmth and greater use of reasoning in this study were both related to lower levels of child aggression, and maternal warmth was a unique, independent predictor of children’s aggression. Moreover, results from an additional, exploratory regression analysis indicate that, even after accounting for significant influence of maternal warmth and reasoning, the interaction of higher warmth and reasoning (b = – .27, p < .05) was also predictive of lower child aggression. This study addressed the connections among young children’s moral emotion attributions and narratives, maternal practices and social support, and children’s aggressive tendencies. Results based on a contextualized story stem methodology (moral MSSB, adapted from Kochanska et al., 1996) revealed that several types of moral themes generated by 4–6-year-olds were related to their aggressive behavior. In addition, maternal social support and some disciplinary practices were also related to children’s aggression. Other expected connections involving children’s moral emotion attributions and aggression, and maternal practices and children’s moral
Specifically, parenting practices of low SES African-American and Latino caregivers are not simply power assertive and include a number of dimensions, including warmth, reasoning, and child-oriented parenting that are common to the wider literature on parenting practices (see Grusec, 2006). As theoretically expected, higher levels of maternal warmth and greater use of reasoning in this study were both related to lower levels of child aggression, and maternal warmth was a unique, independent predictor of children’s aggression. Moreover, results from an additional, exploratory regression analysis indicate that, even after accounting for significant influence of maternal warmth and reasoning, the interaction of higher warmth and reasoning (b = – .27, p < .05) was also predictive of lower child aggression. This study addressed the connections among young children’s moral emotion attributions and narratives, maternal practices and social support, and children’s aggressive tendencies. Results based on a contextualized story stem methodology (moral MSSB, adapted from Kochanska et al., 1996) revealed that several types of moral themes generated by 4–6-year-olds were related to their aggressive behavior. In addition, maternal social support and some disciplinary practices were also related to children’s aggression. Other expected connections involving children’s moral emotion attributions and aggression, and maternal practices and children’s moral