Linking marital conflict and children’s adjustment: The role of young children’s perceptions.

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Ablow ◽  
Jeffrey R. Measelle ◽  
Philip A. Cowan ◽  
Carolyn P. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment

Teachers’ attachment orientations and children’s school adjustment: Evidence from a longitudinal study of first graders

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 559-580
Author(s):  
Uri Lifshin ◽  
Inbal Binyamin Kleinerman ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver ◽  
Mario Mikulincer
Keyword(s):  
School Adjustment ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Attachment Orientations ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Attachment To Mother

The goal of this study was to examine the contribution of teachers’ attachment orientations to the teacher–child relationship and to children’s adjustment to school during first grade. We sampled 539 first-grade children and their homeroom teachers ( N = 58), measured teachers’ attachment orientations and children’s attachment to mother at the beginning of the academic year, and followed children’s perceptions of their teachers’ responsiveness and their socioemotional adjustment to school from the beginning to the end of the year. Teachers’ attachment-related avoidance was associated with changes in children’s perceptions of their teachers’ responsiveness and changes in school adjustment during first grade. These prospective effects of teachers’ avoidance on children’s adjustment occurred regardless of variations in the children’s attachment to mother. However, most of the effects depended on the extent to which a child perceived his or her teacher to be a nonresponsive caregiver. Overall, the findings reveal the critical role of teachers’ attachment orientations in shaping children’s adjustment to school.

scholarly journals Children’s perceptions of maternal hostility as a mediator of the link between discipline and children’s adjustment in four countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Lansford ◽  
Patrick S. Malone ◽  
Kenneth A. Dodge ◽  
Lei Chang ◽  
Nandita Chaudhary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Physical Discipline ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
Children’S Perceptions ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Maternal Hostility

Using data from 195 dyads of mothers and children (age range = 8—12 years; M = 10.63) in four countries (China, India, the Philippines, and Thailand), this study examined children’s perceptions of maternal hostility as a mediator of the links between physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline and children’s adjustment. Both physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline had direct effects on mothers’ reports of children’s anxiety and aggression; three of these four links were mediated by children’s perceptions of maternal hostility. In contrast, there were no significant direct effects of physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline on children’s reports of their own anxiety and aggression. Instead, both physical discipline and harsh verbal discipline had indirect effects on the outcomes through children’s perceptions of maternal hostility. We identified a significant interaction between perceived normativeness and use of harsh verbal discipline on children’s perception of maternal hostility, but children’s perception of the normativeness of physical discipline did not moderate the relation between physical discipline and perceived maternal hostility. The effects of harsh verbal discipline were more adverse when children perceived that form of discipline as being nonnormative than when children perceived that form of discipline as being normative. Results are largely consistent with a theoretical model positing that the meaning children attach to parents’ discipline strategies is important in understanding associations between discipline and children’s adjustment, and that cultural context is associated with children’s interpretations of their parents’ behavior.

The role of social and cognitive processes in children's adjustment to community violence.

1998 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Kliewer ◽  
Stephen J. Lepore ◽  
Deborah Oskin ◽  
Patricia D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Community Violence ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment
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