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Leon Kuczynski

Leon Kuczynski

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
9922
World Ranking
9342
National Ranking
635

Overview

Leon Kuczynski is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science, and Communication.

The researcher's areas of focus encompass topics such as Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Family and Disability Support Research, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Child Development and Digital Technology, Social Media and Politics, Parental Involvement in Education, and Social and Cultural Dynamics.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Mothers' Perspectives on Resistance and Defiance in Middle Childhood: Promoting Autonomy and Social Skill (2021, Social Sciences)
  • The Phenomenon of Parental Rules in Middle Childhood: A Relational Perspective (2022, Global Journal of Human-Social Science)

Kuczynski has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Taniesha Burke
  • Pauline J. Song-Choi
  • Esther C. L. Goh
  • Yan Fei Wu
  • Alexandre Leurs Massart

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, including:

  • Social Sciences
  • Journal of Children and Media
  • New Ideas in Psychology
  • Global Journal of Human-Social Science

Best Publications

  • Patterns of Attachment in Two- and Three-Year-Olds in Normal Families and Families with Parental Depression.

    Marian Radke-Yarrow;E. Mark Cummings;Leon Kuczynski;Michael Chapman

  • A developmental interpretation of Young children's noncompliance

    Leon Kuczynski;Grazyna Kochanska;Marian Radke-Yarrow;Ona Girnius-Brown

  • New directions in analyses of parenting contributions to children's acquisition of values.

    Joan E. Grusec;Jacqueline J. Goodnow;Leon Kuczynski

  • Development of Children's Noncompliance Strategies from Toddlerhood to Age 5.

    Leon Kuczynski;Grazyna Kochanska

  • Parenting and children's internalization of values : a handbook of contemporary theory

    Joan E. Grusec;Leon Kuczynski

  • Children's misbehaviors and parental discipline strategies in abusive and nonabusive families.

    Penelope K. Trickett;Leon Kuczynski

  • Correspondence between Mothers' Self-reported and Observed Child-rearing Practices.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Leon Kuczynski;Marian Radke-Yarrow

  • Direction of effect in socialization: A comparison of the parent's versus the child's behavior as determinants of disciplinary techniques.

    Joan E. Grusec;Leon Kuczynski

  • Beyond One Hand Clapping: Seeing Bidirectionality in Parent-Child Relations:

    Susan Loulis;Leon Kuczynski

  • Beyond Bidirectionality: Bilateral Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

    Leon Kuczynski

  • Value socialization in a bidirectional context.

    Leon Kuczynski;Sheila Marshall;Kathleen Schell

  • Agency and Bidirectionality in Socialization: Interactions, Transactions, and Relational Dialectics.

    Leon Kuczynski;C. Melanie Parkin

  • Handbook of dynamics in parent-child relations

    Leon Kuczynski

  • Resolutions of control episodes between well and affectively ill mothers and their young children.

    Grazyna Kochanska;Leon Kuczynski;Marian Radke-Yarrow;Jean Darby Welsh

  • Dialectical Models of Socialization

    Leon Kuczynski;Jan De Mol

  • Function and Content of Maternal Demands: Developmental Significance of Early Demands for Competent Action

    Leon Kuczynski;Grazyna Kochanska

  • Modeling, Direct Instruction, and Attributions: Effects on Altruism.

    Joan E. Grusec;Leon Kuczynski;J. Philippe Rushton;Zita M. Simutis

  • Socialization goals and mother–child interaction: Strategies for long-term and short-term compliance.

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  • Models of conformity and resistance in socialization theory.

    Leon Kuczynski;Neil Hildebrandt

  • Time to re-think picky eating?: a relational approach to understanding picky eating

    Kathryn Walton;Leon Kuczynski;Emma Haycraft;Andrea Breen

  • We care about care: advice by children in care for children in care, foster parents and child welfare workers about the transition into foster care

    Monique B. Mitchell;Leon Kuczynski;Carolyn Y. Tubbs;Christopher Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Grazyna Kochanska
Grazyna Kochanska University of Iowa
Joan E. Grusec
Joan E. Grusec University of Toronto
J. Philippe Rushton
J. Philippe Rushton University of Western Ontario
Marian Radke-Yarrow
Marian Radke-Yarrow National Institutes of Health
Gerald R. Adams
Gerald R. Adams University of Guelph
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University
Cynthia A. Graham
Cynthia A. Graham University of Southampton
E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Emma Haycraft
Emma Haycraft Loughborough University

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