The Timing of Family Instability and Children's Social Development
The Timing of Family Instability and Children's Social Development
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00564.x
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Huston, Aletha C.
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作者：
Cavanagh, Shannon E.;Huston, Aletha C.
本研究延伸了越来越多的文献的家庭不稳定的意义，调查其时间为儿童的社会适应。我们发现，超过三分之一的1,364名小学儿童在NICHD的早期儿童保育和青年发展研究经历了一些家庭结构的变化。他们家庭不稳定的累积程度与小学毕业时的多项社会发展指标有关，这种关联对男孩来说尤其强烈。这些关联主要是由家庭变化对幼儿期的持久影响所驱动的，这表明早期家庭不稳定对儿童后来的社会发展具有重要意义。
This study extends the growing literature of family instability by investigating the significance of its timing for children's social adjustment. We find that more than a third of the 1,364 elementary school children in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development experienced some family structure change. Their cumulative level of family instability was associated with multiple indicators of social development at the end of elementary school, associations that were especially strong for boys. These associations were driven largely by the lasting effect of family change in early childhood, demonstrating the significance of early family instability for children's later social development.