Early Relationship Quality From Home to School: A Longitudinal Study
Titel:
Early Relationship Quality From Home to School: A Longitudinal Study
Auteur:
Vondra, Joan I. Shaw, Daniel S. Swearingen, Laure Cohen, Meredith Owens, Elizabeth B.
Verschenen in:
Early education and development
Paginering:
Jaargang 10 (1999) nr. 2 pagina's 163-190
Jaar:
1999-04-01
Inhoud:
The aim of this investigation was to examine the role of social relationships in the home as predictors of social functioning in the first years of school. Longitudinal data gathered on 156 children from urban, low-income families were used to examine the unique contributions of mother-child attachment classification at ages 1 and 2 years, the child's relationship with another adult caregiver, the child's closeness to a sibling, and the child's status in the family relative to siblings between ages 3 and 4 years, to teacher reports of their own relationship to the child and the child's social skills in the classroom and peer relations. The role of family-based relationships as possible protective factors for children at social or demographic risk for problems in school was also tested. Results indicate that quality of different family relationships provides relatively independent and complementary information about early social functioning in school, with more limited evidence for compensatory or protective processes at work.