Typologies of Family Functioning and Children's Adjustment during the Early School Years

Autor/inn/en	Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cummings, E. Mark
Titel	Typologies of Family Functioning and Children's Adjustment during the Early School Years
Quelle	In: Child Development, 81 (2010) 4, S.1320-1335 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01471.x
Schlagwörter	Family Life; Kindergarten; Family Counseling; Adjustment (to Environment); Family Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Observation; Child Development; Young Children; Parents; Longitudinal Studies; Behavior Problems; Student Adjustment; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Family counselling; Familienberatung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Beobachtung; Kindesentwicklung; Frühe Kindheit; Eltern; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation
Abstract	Guided by family systems theory, the present study sought to identify patterns of family functioning from observational assessments of interparental, parent-child, and triadic contexts. In addition, it charted the implications for patterns of family functioning for children's developmental trajectories of adjustment in the school context across the early school years. Two-hundred thirty-four kindergarten children (129 girls and 105 boys; mean age = 6.0 years, SD = 0.50 at Wave 1) and their parents participated in this multimethod, 3-year longitudinal investigation. As expected, latent class analyses extracted 3 primary typologies of functioning including: (a) cohesive, (b) enmeshed, and (c) disengaged families. Furthermore, family patterns were differentially associated with children's maladaptive adjustment trajectories in the school context. The findings highlight the developmental utility of incorporating pattern-based approaches to family functioning. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10