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Title

The family context of parenting in children's adaptation to elementary school / edited by Philip A. Cowan [and others].

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Cowan, Philip A.

Description

xvii, 414 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The long-cherished assumption that parenting "matters" to the development of children took a round of empirical blows in the 1990s. These findings dovetailed with new emphases on school reform as the best remedy for the perceived decline in academic skills and increase in behavioral and learning problems in young students. This volume reports on the findings of a longitudinal prevention study that was designed to explore the importance and interaction of the variety of factors at play in the role of children's adaptation to elementary school." "Two themes dominate this volume: First, parent-child relationships, once thought to be the primary psychological/behavioral determinants of children's academic and social competence, as well as behavioral problems, must be understood in the context of relationships within the family as a system. Although the parent-child relationship is clearly important, it exists within a set of relationships among nuclear family members and between family members, and within larger social systems. The second theme addresses the recent challenge to claims about the impact of parents on their children's development. Through their longitudinal studies that included a randomly assigned intervention for parents as couples, the editors describe causal links between the quality of family relationships and children's school adjustment."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Monographs in parenting series

Uniform Title

Monographs in parenting series.

Subject

• Readiness for school
• Parent and child
• Education, Elementary > Parent participation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-385) and indexes.

Contents

1. Family factors in children's adaptation to elementary school : introducing a five-domain contextual model / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Jennifer C. Ablow, Vanessa K. Johnson and Jeffrey R. Measelle -- 2. Recruitment, design, and measures / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Jennifer C. Ablow, Vanessa K. Johnson and Jeffrey R. Measelle -- 3. How children and parents fare during the transition to school / Philip A. Cowan and Gertrude Heming -- 4. Authoritative parenting and the encouragement of children's autonomy / Jonathan F. Mattanah -- 5. Marital quality, sex-typed parenting, and girls' and boys' expression of problem behaviors / Jeanette Hsu -- 6. Children's self-perceptions as a link between family relationship quality and social adaptation to school / Jeffrey R. Measelle -- 7. When parents conflict or disengage : children's perceptions of parents' marital distress predict school adaptation / Jennifer C. Ablow -- 8. Parents' working models of attachment : the intergenerational context of parenting and children's adaptation to school / Philip A. Cowan, Isabel Bradburn and Carolyn Pape Cowan -- 9. Parents' work experiences and children's adaptation to school / Marc S. Schulz -- 10. Family process and family structure in children's adaptation to school / Vanessa K. Johnson -- 11. Two variations of a preventive intervention for couples : effects on parents and children during the transition to school / Carolyn Pape Cowan, Philip A. Cowan and Gertrude Heming -- 12. Five-domain models : putting it all together / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan -- 13. Family factors in children's adaptation to elementary school : a discussion and integration / Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Jennifer C. Ablow, Vanessa K. Johnson and Jeffrey R. Measelle.

ISBN

0805841571 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004056444

OCLC

• ocm56794313
• SCSB-5203066

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries