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Forgatch, Marion S.; DeGarmo, David S. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2007
This study evaluated benefits of a preventive intervention to the living standards of recently separated mothers. In the Oregon Divorce Study's randomized experimental design, data were collected 5 times over 30 months and evaluated with Hierarchical Linear Growth Models. Relative to their no-intervention control counterparts, experimental mothers…
Descriptors: Divorce, Intervention, Poverty, Mothers
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DeGarmo, David S.; Forgatch, Marion S.; Martinez, Charles R., Jr. – Child Development, 1999
Examined effects of SES components for divorced/recently separated mothers of 6- to 9-year-old sons. Found that SES indicators were associated with better parenting. Parenting indirectly affected achievement through home skill building and school behavior. Maternal education direct effect was mediated by home skill building. Maternal occupation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, Divorce, Educational Attainment
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DeGarmo, David S.; Forgatch, Marion S. – Developmental Science, 2005
This paper reports on an experimental test of coercion theory early onset model of delinquency. Results are from the Oregon Divorce Study-II, a randomized preventive intervention trial with a sample of 238 recently separated mothers and their sons in early elementary school. The objective was to experimentally manipulate parenting variables…
Descriptors: Child Development, Divorce, Intervention, Delinquency