Furthermore, by controlling for the level of preschool behavior problems when examining the impact of family conflict on behavior problems of children during the early years of school, it is possible to determine how exposure to
conflict during the early school years affects change in behavior problems from preschool to early school age.
For internalizing behavior, the impact of family
conflict during early school years was uniformly negative regardless of child temperament after accounting for early internalizing behavior.
Not exact matches
The current study extends previous work by examining the risk of family
conflict experienced
during early school years and difficult child temperament in a sample of LBW / PT children, with specific attention to the moderating role that child temperament plays in the relation between family
conflict during this period and problem behavior at age 8
years.
That is, in addition to their LBW / PT status, children with a difficult temperament who experience family
conflict during early elementary
school years have poorer adaptive functioning than LBW / PT children without these additional risks.
Including
earlier levels of behavior problems as a control provides a clearer picture of how family
conflict experienced
during the
early school years contributes to the level of behavior problems children manifest as they approach middle childhood.