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Legkauskas, Visvaldas; Magelinskaite-Legkauskiene, Šarune – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study examined whether social competence at the time of entrance to elementary school predicted school adjustment two years later. The sample consisted of 389 children followed from the 1st to the 3rd grade in Lithuanian urban schools. In the 3rd-grade school adjustment was measured by assessing popularity in class, student-teacher…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment
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Yan, Ni; Dix, Theodore – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2014
Background: The depression-inhibition hypothesis suggests that mothers' depressive symptoms undermine development because they lead children to withdraw from social contact. To test this, this study examined whether poor first-grade adjustment among children of mothers with depressive symptoms is mediated by the emergence of child withdrawal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Student Adjustment
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McWayne, Christine; Cheung, Katherine – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
In the current study, the authors tested the hypothesis that the relationship between early behavior problems and later academic and social outcomes is mediated by children's evidence of strengths during the transition to school. A locally representative and predominantly African American sample of 162 Head Start children was assessed at the end…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models, Disadvantaged Youth, Student Adjustment
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Caughy, Margaret O'Brien; Nettles, Saundra M.; O'Campo, Patricia J. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
We examined the impact of neighborhood characteristics both directly and indirectly as mediated by parent coaching and the parent/child affective relationship on behavioral and school adjustment in a sample of urban dwelling first graders. We used structural equations modeling to assess model fit and estimate direct, indirect, and total effects of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Behavior Problems, Social Characteristics, Community Involvement