Sentences with phrase «influence of parental support»

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• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

A number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack of community support, single parenthood, low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition, low birth weight and infant health are just some of the variables.

I looked into defining characteristics that may predict an individual's likelihood to become a professional soccer player and the varying influences of coach and parental support on elite junior tennis players.

In examining the factors influence principals «openness to community and parental involvement, we found that although district support for more involvement does correlate with the diversity of membership on site councils, districts do not have a strong impact on how principals «openness to community and parental engagement outside the traditional site councils.

We asked teachers about their approach to teaching, the lessons we had observed, the principal «s role in guiding and supporting their work, factors that have the greatest influence on student learning, district influences, professional development opportunities, the school community, the extent of parental involvement, and what they would tell a new teacher about what it is like to work at this school.

Not only may parental support and expectations influence student motivation and effort, but some parents may share directly in the task of instruction itself, reading with children, for example, or assisting them with homework.»

Hundreds of studies have demonstrated that various factors influence student achievement, including teaching styles, class sizes, parental support, diet and more.

To analyze how effective school boards employ the art of influence — through legislation and strategic engagement, to generate public and parental support.

Parents act as gatekeepers to children's activity10 and can play an important role in increasing their child's physical activity.11 — 13 For instance, parents can influence their child's activity by being active with their child, role - modelling active behaviour and / or by facilitating physical activity for their child (logistic support).13 — 16 Studies examining associations between parent and child physical activity behaviour have yielded mixed results.14 17 — 20 A growing body of research has shown that providing logistic support is associated with increased physical activity21 — 23 and, therefore, may be the most important source of parental influence on children's activity.

Wim Meeus and several colleagues report that parental influence on adolescent offending is strongest when an adolescent has no intimate partners; parental support did not influence delinquency for youth who consistently had a romantic partner over the course of the six - year study.88 In another recent study of serious adolescent offenders, girls who self - reported delinquent behavior were more likely to be strongly encouraged in that behavior by their current romantic partner.89 Interestingly, the association between partner encouragement and self - reported offending was strongest among youth reporting warm relationships with their opposite - sex parent.

A number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack of community support, single parenthood, low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition, low birth weight and infant health are just some of the variables.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

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

We also provide information to the media to help the public understand undue influence (mind control) in all of its forms including controlling people, cults, beliefs, estrangement, and parental alienation, so that everyone can have the tools and support they need to protect themselves from undue influence.

Hence, the findings of this study offer support to the hypothesis that parental and child behavior reciprocally influence each other, rather than one shaping the other in a unidirectional fashion.

Although some studies have not found a direct relationship between parents» emotion socialization beliefs and conduct problems [36], prior results provide support for an indirect association wherein parental emotion coaching influences children's emotional competence (e.g., affect regulation), which in turn is linked to severity of behavioral problems [33].

Psychological attributes of parents also influence the way parents manage their children.26 Indeed a meta - analysis of 30 studies focused on the Big 5 personality characteristics involving almost 6,000 parent - child dyads revealed that higher levels extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience and lower levels of neuroticism were related to greater warmth and behavioural control on the part of parents, whereas higher levels of agreeableness and lower levels of neuroticism were related to the provision of more support for autonomy; 27 somewhat similar results emerged in a related meta - analysis that also examined the influence of parental psychological problems on parenting.28

The effects of the intervention also generalized to positively influence parent and child behaviours during a shared book reading activity, even though this activity was not a specific focus of the intervention.23 The intervention worked equally well with children who were or were not at high biological risk.13, 22 This supports the notion that responsiveness facilitates learning through parental sensitivity and willingness to meet young children's individual needs.

Using experimental methods researchers have found support for: childhood stress (§ 6b) and father absence (§ 6c) lowering preferred age at first birth and increasing sexual risk taking [45,53]; attachment style (§ 6e) influencing parenthood - related thoughts [60]; cultural norms (§ 6m) discouraging reproduction outside stable unions [12]; women's reproductive autonomy (§ 6i) influencing their fertility preferences [47]; paternity uncertainty (§ 6j) discouraging parental investment by men [55]; high cost of children (§ 6l) encouraging delayed reproduction and lower fertility [36,47]; resource stress and limitation (§ 6o) affecting mating preferences [12,36,40,51]; and mortality risk and salience (§ 6p) encouraging a greater interest in children, earlier reproduction and higher fertility [6,41,42,45,57 — 59].

The results indicated that parental emotional support did not directly affect adolescent happiness, but rather influenced it indirectly through the mediating effect of self - esteem.

This suggests the importance of examining multiple ways in which parental resources and support influence early adult behavior and well - being.

Using data from a national study of youth, a meditational model was tested in which parenting practices (parental control and maternal support) were hypothesized to influence adolescents» participation in delinquent behavior through their affiliation with deviant peers.

This study investigated the influence of parental emotional support on adolescent self - esteem, emotional intelligence and adolescents» happiness along with the possible mediating effects of emotional intelligence and self - esteem between parental emotional support and adolescent happiness.

Traditional parenting factors, such as parental support and harsh parenting also influenced respondents» own trajectories of antisocial behavior.

Parental expectation can influence socialization behaviours and parent — child interaction patterns, 29 and it may be that parents engaged and supported their children in solving problems as a means of realizing their aspiration in relation to the future success of their offspring.