Not exact matches
Supportiveness of church for
parent in trying to raise teen (very supportive) 11.
If the
parents lived together prior to separation, and the relationships with both
parents were at least of adequate quality and
supportiveness, the central challenge is to maintain both infant -
parent attachments after separation.
They compiled data on the home environment, like how early and how often
parents read to their kids, and measured the mother's
supportiveness and sensitivity to their child's emotional cues via home video tapes.
Academic self - efficacy, school climate /
supportiveness, school belonging, future goals and ambitions, motivation in school, victimization (bullying), school self - concept, classroom autonomy, school liking, personal power, parental help,
parent support
However, the child's physical health (according to body mass index measures and
parent reported general health) was not associated with fathers»
supportiveness.
Although fathers»
supportiveness is generally at lower levels than mothers», relations with both
parents appear equally important for ten year - olds» school adjustment, relations with peers and overall wellbeing.
Supportiveness was measured using nine items from the trust and communication subscales of the People in My Life (PIML) scale, a self - report measure of child attachment designed and validated for use in middle childhood (6 - 12 years)(Ridenour, Greenberg & Cook, 2006) The validation process used a sample of 10 - 12 year olds to establish that the overall PIML attachment scale was correlated as expected with other measures of children's behavioural and emotional adjustment, as reported by
parents, teachers and children themselves.
The gap between children's perceptions of mothers» and fathers»
supportiveness is therefore wider for families with a non-biological father than for families with both biological
parents.
The strong association between the quality of the child's relationship with each
parent is also illustrated by Figure 3 - C, which plots average
supportiveness in father - child relationships according to average
supportiveness in mother - child relationships.
Average relationship
supportiveness scores for each
parent show a strong positive correlation (Pearson correlation coefficient, r = 0.68, p < 0.001).
An additional 15 % perceive poor levels of
supportiveness from only one
parent, however this is more likely to be with the father (11 %) than with the mother (3 %).
This Figure does, however, also show that there were some children who had a good or excellent relationship with one
parent (scoring 3 or more on the
supportiveness scale), but a poor relationship with the other
parent (scoring under 3 on
supportiveness).
Parenting measures included the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME), which includes assessments of parental
supportiveness,
parent detachment, reading with children, and physical punishment.
Parent emotion socialization and children's socioemotional adjustment: when is
supportiveness no longer supportive?.
Particularly, (1) we expected a positive association between the owners»
supportiveness and warmth and the dogs» proximity seeking with the owner, since a supportive and warm
parenting style has been associated with more secure attachment in children; (2) we expected a positive association between the owners» warmth and the dogs» willingness to approach the experimenter in a friendly manner, based on the facilitating effect of warm
parenting on the children's positive interactions with peers; and (3) we expected a positive association between the owners» level of control and higher aggression in the dogs, as a possible analogy of the effect of an authoritarian and harsh
parenting on relational aggression in children (Kawabata et al., 2011).