The Family Context of Parenting in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School

by Cowan, Philip A.; Cowan, Carolyn Pape; Ablow, Jennifer C.; Johnson, Vanessa Kahn

• ISBN13: 9781410612885
• ISBN10: 1410612880
• Copyright: 2005-04-04
• Publisher: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, INC.

Summary

This volume focuses on how parent-child relationships aren't the only determinants of a child's academic competence, social competence, and behavior. Rather, these relationships must be understood in the context of the role they play within the family as

Table of Contents

Contents

Series Foreword

Monograhs in Parenting

Introduction and Method

Family Factors in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School

Introducing a Five-Domain Contextual Model

Recruitmens, Design, and Measures

Things Change Yet Stay the Same

How Children and Parents Fare During the Transition to School

The Family Context of Parenting

Authoritative Parenting and the Encouragement of Children's Autonomy

Marital Quality, Sex-Typed Parenting, and Girls' and Boys'

Expression of Problem Behaviors

Children's Self-Perceptions as a Link Between Family Relationship

Quality and Social Adaptation to School

When Parents Conflict or Disengage

Children's Perceptions of Parents'

Marital Distress Predict School Adaptation

Parents' Working Models of Attachment

The Intergenerational Context of Parenting and Children's

Adaptation to School

Parents' Work Experiences and Children's

Adaptation to School

Family Process and Family Structure in Children's Adaptation to School

Interventions as Tests of Casual Models of Family

Influence on Children's Adaptation to School

Two Variations of a Preventive Intervention for Couples

Effects on Parents and Children During the Transition to School

Integrations

Five-Domain Models

Putting It All Together

Family Factors in Children's Adaptation to Elementary School

A Discussion and Integration

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