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Fletcher, Anne C.; Walls, Jill K.; Eanes, Angella Y.; Troutman, David R. – School Community Journal, 2010
We tested a model considering the manner in which mothers' use of their own social relationships and efforts to facilitate their children's school-based social relationships were associated with two distinct types of school-based competence: academic achievement and levels of stress experienced within the school environment. Fourth grade children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
In recognition of the multiple pathways through which family and peer systems are linked, this short-term longitudinal study tested a tripartite model of family-peer relationships. One hundred fifty-nine fourth-grade children (82 boys, 77 girls) and their parents participated in a study of the links between parent behaviors and children's peer…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Parents, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation
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Wood, Jeffrey J.; Repetti, Rena L.; Roesch, Scott C. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2004
This study examined linkages between divorce, depressive/withdrawn parenting, and child adjustment problems at home and school. Middle class divorced single mother families (n=35) and 2-parent families (n=174) with a child in the fourth grade participated. Mothers and teachers completed yearly questionnaires and children were interviewed when they…
Descriptors: Divorce, Student Adjustment, Child Rearing, Depression (Psychology)