In addition to these, there are many other variables that have been found to
influence child adjustment following divorce.
The data collected in this project provide a unique opportunity to examine how nature and nurture
influence child adjustment through age 8 years.
Not exact matches
These results also suggest that the
adjustment difficulties seen with some
children of divorced parents may be due to an interaction between genetic and environmental factors rather than environmental
influences alone, as is assumed in many theories of divorce» s effects.
Thus, for these studies there is a clear reliance on either matching or statistical
adjustment for the effects of other factors correlated with feeding method that may also
influence child outcomes such as maternal IQ and / or parenting style.
Keep in mind that simple
adjustments in your
child's diet can have a huge
influence on their performance today and for their health in the future.
It aims to improve understanding of the many
influences on the health and emotional
adjustment of
children as they approach their teens.
Her research focuses on ethnicity, culture and context and identifies unique and interactive ways in which these constructs
influence parenting beliefs, parenting practices, and
children mental health and academic
adjustment.
Through its
influence on parental involvement, the prekindergarten experience appears effect indirectly, but positively, first grade academic achievement and
children's social
adjustment.
A number of factors
influence a
child's
adjustment to divorce, some of which are very much within your control, and some of which are beyond your control but important to be aware of.
It is important for parents to know that treatment research has demonstrated that one of the most important factors
influencing children's psychological
adjustment is the degree of support they receive from their parents and other guardians.35, 36
As the place that
children look to for guidance on coping with and making sense of life, parents have great power to
influence and improve the
adjustment of their
children to family transitions.
[T] he various patterns of coresidence did not differ from the
children in intact families on the outcome measures, suggesting that during the initial
adjustment period after marital dissolution, the absence of a father - figure or the presence of biological - father - substitutes appear to have no
influence on most
children's intellectual or psychosocial functioning.»
Parents of five - year old IVF
children: Psychological
adjustment, parenting stress and the
influence of subsequent IVF treatment.
Even when study is limited to family processes as
influences, multivariate risk models find support.9 - 12 For example, Cummings and Davies13 presented a framework for how multiple disruptions in
child and family functioning and related contexts are supported as pertinent to associations between maternal depression and early
child adjustment, including problematic parenting, marital conflict,
children's exposure to parental depression, and related difficulties in family processes.10, 11 A particular focus of this family process model is identifying and distinguishing specific response processes in the
child (e.g., emotional insecurity; specific emotional, cognitive, behavioral or physiological responses) that, over time, account for normal development or the development of psychopathology.10
To address these limitations, we investigated how enduring relational adversity (e.g. chronic rejection, victimization) and / or advantage (e.g. stable peer acceptance, friendships) interfaced with
children's aggressive dispositions to
influence their
adjustment.
Third, it is important for studies to distinguish between clinical and subclinical levels of maternal depression.10 Similarly, the impact of the characteristics of maternal depression requires further investigation; depression is a heterogeneous disorder, and the timing, chronicity and number of episodes of maternal depression may
influence relations between maternal depression and
child adjustment.
To address these limitations, we investigated how enduring relational adversity (e.g. chronic rejection, victimization) and / or advantage (e.g. stable peer acceptance, friendships) interfaced with
children's aggressive dispositions to
influence their
adjustment.6 Variable - oriented analyses yielded findings consistent with an additive
child by environment model: with few exceptions, participation in peer relationships predicted
adjustment beyond
children's aggressive risk status.
The Pathways Project is an ongoing longitudinal study funded by the National Institutes of Health that was designed to expand our understanding of
child, family, school and peer factors that
influence children's progress and
adjustment as they begin kindergarten at age five.
Children's negative emotionality moderates
influence of parenting styles on preschool classroom
adjustment.
The Cooperative Parenting and Divorce program is a video - based, psychoeducational program designed to assist divorcing or divorced parents in reducing parental conflict and the risk factors that
influence the
child's post-divorce
adjustment.
The extent to which
children feel part of the class group and accepted by their peers
influences their psychosocial
adjustment (Pardini et al. 2006) and their interest in school (Wentzel 1998).
This program was designed to help parents reduce parental conflict and to educate them about the factors that
influence their
children's
adjustment.
Children's relationships with non-resident fathers are a notable omission from this study: other research has pointed to the quality of the
child's relationship with the non-resident father as a significant
influence on socio - emotional
adjustment (Adamsons & Johnson, 2013).
Associations between parenting and health are explored before and after
adjustment for socio - demographics, family poverty and maternal depression, in order to see whether parenting may have effects over and above these other known
influences on
child health and health behaviours.
It is a profession designed to assist parents in high - conflict situations establish and maintain a healthy relationship by reducing parental conflict and the risk factors that
influence a
child's post-divorce
adjustment.
These findings counter unidirectional models of parent - mediated contextual effects by highlighting the direct
influences of contextual strain and parent —
child transactions on early childhood behavioral and academic
adjustment, respectively.
Parenting Coordinators assist parents establish and maintain a healthy co-parenting relationship by reducing parental conflict and the risk factors that
influence a
child's post-divorce
adjustment.
The conflict between parents prior to divorce also affects
children negatively, while post-divorce conflict has a strong
influence on
children's
adjustment, Hughes says.
In sum, many factors are involved in determining how divorce
influences a
child's
adjustment.
Parenting practices have been conceptualized as the most proximal
influence in
child adjustment.
Considering all the above, a number of important questions follow in regard to the scarcity of research on how certain parenting practices relate to their
children's emotional intelligence, especially in early adulthood; on the differential behavior of the three main dimensions of emotional intelligence in relation to psychological
adjustment; and on the differing
influence of fathers» and mothers» parenting styles.
This paper examines the
influence of maltreated
children's maternal and self - representations on subsequent relationships with foster mothers and behavioral
adjustment in foster care.
Parents of 5 - year - old in vitro fertilization
children: psychological
adjustment, parenting stress, and the
influence of subsequent in vitro fertilization treatment
The
influence of conflict, marital problem solving, and parenting on
children's
adjustment in non-divorced, divorced and re-married families
The interactive
influence of neighborhood violence and coparent conflict on
child psychosocial
adjustment was examined in a sample of 117 low - income, inner - city African American families.