This strategy was used to examine the unique contribution of the parental variables after controlling for the observed influences of child demographic and disease
variables on the child outcomes.
Not exact matches
Which parenting
variable had more impact
on child outcomes?
These
outcomes have been achieved through SEL's impact
on important mental health
variables that improve
children's social relationships, increase their attachment to school and motivation to learn, and reduce antisocial, violent, and drug - using behaviors.
The factors that contribute to the
outcome of the test are extremely
variable: did the
child sleep well, does the
child receive support and assistance from the parents at home, is English spoken at home, is the
child from a stable environment, does the
child have proper nutrition for cognitive success, does the
child have learning disabilities or challenges or suffer from test anxiety... and so
on.
The role of parental relationship quality It has long been recognized in the research
on divorced parents that the quality of parents» relationships (for example, how well they get along and how much conflict they experience) would be a key intervening
variable explaining links between divorce or separation and poorer
child outcomes.
We estimated models by using dependent
variables previously associated with significant treatment effects in the follow - up study.10, 20 These included life - course
outcomes for the mother, such as number of subsequent
children, months
on welfare, impairments due to substance use, and number of arrests, as well as life - course
outcomes for the study
children, such as number of runaway episodes and number of arrests or convictions.
Which parenting
variable had more impact
on child outcomes?
Second, we will enter explanatory
variables into the models to determine which factors have the most influence
on outcomes and inequalities in these
outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
children.
Finally, although a large number of family background
variables were controlled for in our analysis there may be many more that can impact
on children's
outcomes.
These
outcomes have been achieved through SEL's impact
on important mental health
variables that improve
children's social relationships, increase their attachment to school and motivation to learn, and reduce antisocial, violent, and drug - using behaviors.
Parenting is a proximal
variable in the causal pathway to adverse
outcomes in childhood and adolescence, of which material disadvantage and economic hardship are distal
variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among young
children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence
on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects
on adolescent functioning.
The three treatment conditions were comparable
on all
child and parent demographic and
outcome variables collected at baseline.
Like the family environment, many studies have focused
on the marital relationship as an
outcome variable of family adaptation, indicating less marital satisfaction in mothers of
children with ASD in comparison to mothers of
children with other disorders [56, 69], and less positive expression within the marital relationship [45].
Parent report is often used instead of
children's self - report, but relying
on one informant (e.g., parent report) for
outcome and predictor
variables can lead to overestimates of associations because of common method variance (Lindell and Whitney 2001; Richardson et al. 2009).
The aim of the present study was to examine whether treatment fidelity scores obtained for PMTO certification purposes prior to the intervention would be associated with treatment completion and with larger treatment effects
on various
outcome variables, including
child externalizing behavior problems, parenting practices, parental psychopathology, parenting stress, working alliance.