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Psychiatric Problems in Adolescence Mediate the Association between Childhood Learning Disabilities and Later Well-Being
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Eloranta, Anna-Kaija; Närhi, Vesa M.; Muotka, Joona S.; Tolvanen, Asko J.; Korhonen, Elisa; Ahonen, Timo P. S.; Aro, Tuija I. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
This follow-up study investigated the associations of childhood learning disabilities (LDs) with adult-age anxiety, depression, and unemployment. Psychosocial problems in childhood and psychiatric diagnoses and lack of education in adolescence were studied as potential mediators, and gender and mother's education were studied as potential…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Well Being, Children
Across the Conference Table: Private and Public Mothering of Children with Learning Disabilities
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Valle, Jan W. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
In this article, a narrative inquiry approach is used to investigate how mothers report their experiences of parenting children with learning disability (LD) within the culture of American motherhood and to explore what impact such experiences of motherhood might have upon their relationships with school professionals. Analysis of the mothers'…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
Arab-Israeli Mothers' Attribution, Affective, and Behavioral Responses toward Their Child with a Learning Disability: Examining an Attribution Model of Reactions to Stigma
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Lucia, Abeer; Soffer, Michal – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
Studies show that people with a learning disability (LD) are stigmatized. The study adopts the major tenets of the "Attribution Model of Reactions to Stigmas" (AMRS), which postulates that causal attributions to disability ("stigmas") are associated with affective responses that lead to behavioral outcomes. Adopting a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
Ecocultural Perspective in Learning Disability: Family Support Resources, Values, Child Problem Behaviors
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Cen, Suzan; Aytac, Berna – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
The present study aimed to assess the interaction between familial and cultural factors on child problem behaviors of learning disabled children aged between 7 and 14 within the perspective of ecocultural theory (N = 90). Mothers completed the Family Support Scale, Portrait Values Questionnaire, and Social-Demographical Form, and teachers…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Family Programs, Values, Child Behavior
Fathers and Mothers of Children with Learning Disabilities: Links between Emotional and Coping Resources
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2015
This study compared emotional and coping resources of two parent groups with children ages 8 to 12 years--children with learning disabilities (LD) versus with typical development--and explored how mothers' and fathers' emotional resources (low anxious/avoidant attachment, low negative affect, and high positive affect) may explain differences in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Coping, Emotional Response, Parents
Subtypes of Attachment Security in School-Age Children with Learning Disabilities
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012
This study explored children's secure attachment with both parents versus one parent, as well as the unique role of children's patterns of close relationships with father and mother, for a deeper understanding of maladjustment problems among children with learning disabilities (LD). Specifically, this study identified subgroups of children with…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Learning Disabilities, Child Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Maternal Behavior and Family Consellation as Predictors of Social Competency in Learning Disabled Children.
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Freund, Judith Horen; Elardo, Richard – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
The role of maternal behavior and family constellation factors as predictors of social competence was investigated with 17 learning disabled children (mean age 10 years) and their mothers. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Family (Sociological Unit), Interpersonal Competence
Effects of Mother Presence and Absence on LD Children's and Their Mothers' Causal Attributions for Performance Outcomes.
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Dembo, Myron H.; Vaugn, Wendy – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
Forty elementary-school learning-disabled children completed a design assembly task and a vocabulary task. Results indicated a significant performance (success and failure)-by-maternal involvement (presence and absence) interaction for children's attributional ratings of effort, task difficulty, and luck, and for mothers' attributional ratings of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Failure