Maternal Disciplinary Practices and Offspring Temperament Across Two Generations

This chapter examines relationships between maternal discipline and offspring temperament across two generations of families, G1 and G2. Both samples are derived from families with a child between 1 and 10 years old randomly selected from two upstate New York counties in 1975 (Kogan, Smith, & Jenkins, 1977). Since then, children from these families were followed up in three subsequent waves of data collection (Cohen et al., 1993). A related study was undertaken toward the end of the 1980s in order to examine reciprocal models of parenting and offspring temperament among those children from the original 1975 cohort who had become parents.