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Title: Family Context of Children's Social and Emotional Development: Marital Quality and Mother-Child Interaction in Mother-Father and Mother-Stepfather Families
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Rogers, Stacy J. |
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Family Context of Children's Social and Emotional Development: Marital Quality and Mother-Child Interaction in Mother-Father and Mother-Stepfather Families Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1993 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Health; Education; Family Environment; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Income; Marital Stability; Maternal Employment; Self-Esteem; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) This study examines the ways in which the processes of marital and parent-child interaction and their implications for children's well-being differ in mother-father and mother-stepfather families. This research considers the influence of marital quality on the quality of mother-child interaction, as indicated by the supportiveness of the mother's reported response to the child's temper tantrum, and the actual disciplinary style the mother reported using in the week prior to the interview. This research then considers the subsequent effects of the quality of mother-child interaction on children's behavior problems and self-esteem. This model of family interaction is tested using data from the 1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Merged Child-Mother dataset. The research sample consists of 697 preadolescent children age 8 through 11 who lived either with both biological parents, or their mother and a stepfather in 1988, and were interviewed in 1988. Several sources of information, including maternal reports and reports from the children themselves, are utilized in this research. A series of weighted, cumulative, ordinary least squares regression models were estimated to test the relationships in this model. The results indicate that the quality of the marital relationship has a significant effect on the quality of mother-child interaction and children's behavior problems for those in mother-father families, but is more separate from these aspects of the family for those in mother-stepfather families. The quality of the mother-child relationship has similar effects for children in both types of families, with higher quality mother-child interaction having significant, beneficial effects for children's self-esteem and behavioral development. Children's feelings of self-esteem also have a significant, negative effect on their level of behavior problems, though this relationship is significant only for children in mother-father fam ilies. Additional ana lyses indicated that the effects of the key variables in this model vary significantly by family structure, with less variation by the sex or race of the child. Dissertation Abstract International, VOL. 54-08A, Page 3223 |
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Rogers, Stacy J. Family Context of Children's Social and Emotional Development: Marital Quality and Mother-Child Interaction in Mother-Father and Mother-Stepfather Families. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1993. |