When parenting satisfaction was examined as an index of adolescent parenting, there was a significant interaction between infant temperament and the grandmother directiveness subscale of the SIRQ. (academic.oup.com)
Successful natural - law arguments identify and apply norms of morality that reason grasps as truths entailed by the integral directiveness of practical reason's first principles - principles that direct human choice and action toward intelligible aspects of human well - being and fulfillment (health, knowledge, friendship, etc.) and away from their privations. (firstthings.com)
Ispa's study, which included more than 2,000 mothers and their children, measured maternal directiveness — or the extent to which mothers controlled activities — in play when children were 2 years old and then during a discussion about areas of disagreement when the children were in the fifth grade. (sciencedaily.com)