Sentences with phrase «emotional adjustment among»

Discussion focused on the unique value of maternal characteristics for understanding social and emotional adjustment among school - age children.

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The present study identified higher - order relationships among teacher assessments of approaches to learning and emotional and behavioral adjustment constructs for urban, low - income preschool

Patterns of close relationships and socio - emotional and academic adjustment among school - age children with learning disabilities.

On the basis of the emotional contagion hypothesis, we thought that effective parental coping among the COPE mothers would lead to better adjustment outcomes for their children.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

This study examined a cumulative model of risk / protective factors at the individual level (child's sense of coherence; attachment with father) and family level as manifested by fathers» emotional resources (fathers» negative / positive affect; attachment avoidance / anxiety), to explain socioemotional adjustment among children age 8 — 12 years with or without learning disabilities (LD).

Because early adolescence is not only a period of major physical change for girls, but also a time in which peer relationships become increasingly significant, a key question linking these two aspects of development is whether signs of pubertal maturation are related to one's social reputation among peers and, furthermore, whether such reputational factors might help us understand why early maturing girls display emotional adjustment problems.

Support from friends and classmates predicts emotional adjustment and resilience, with lower peer support associated with more anxiety, depression, and behavioral maladjustment among typically developing children (Demaray & Malecki, 2002; Demaray, Malecki, Davidson, Hodgson, & Rebus, 2005; Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 2006).

As adolescence is a period marked by significant biological, cognitive, emotional, and social changes (Holmbeck et al., 2006), researchers should attend to the implications of negative affect and adjustment difficulties among those with diabetes for metabolic control.