Childhood Experiences In Parental Care and Later Competency: The Case of Sinkegna High School Students
Abstract
Investigation of the relationship between the early experiences
of the sinkegna (semi-displaced students) in the hands of care givers and their
adjustment competency in the senior high school years suggested that
experiences of affection, responsibility training and academic support and
supervision, as measured by a researcher-devised instrument (P ESM Scale)
relates negatively to susceptibility to adjustment problems but positively to the
ability to generate effective solutions to problems. However no reliable
relationship was obtained between P ESM and self-referenced solutions to
problems. Some evidence further indicated that 'sex'. may mediate the impact
of P ESM on academic progress. The theoretical and practical implications of
the study are briefly discussed.
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Child Development. 58: 1244-1257.
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Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 56: 31-34.
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American Sociological Review. 30:81-96.
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Academic Performance. Child Development. 57:1528-1533.
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Friendship in Children. Child Development, 46: 709-718.
Grusec, J.E. and Abramovitch, R. (1982). I~itation Of peers and Adults in a Natural Setting: A
functional Analysis. Child Development. 53: 636-642.
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Vol. 4. Socialization, Personality, and Social Development. (4th ed., Pi>. 103-196), .Y.:
Wiley.
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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. (10) N.Y.: Academic Press.
Kurdek, L.A. and Sinclair, R.J. (1988). Relation of Eighth Graders ' Family Structure, Gender and
Family Errvironment with Academic Performance and School Behavior. Journal of
Educational Psychology. 80: 90-94.
Lakew Woldetekle. (1992). Effects of Early Psychological Intervention on the Development of Children
in a Selected Community in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian Journal of Development Research.
14(1): 44-69.
Loeb, R.C. (1975). Concomitants of Boy's Locus of Control Examined in Parent-Child Interaction.
Developmental Psychology. 11: 353-358.
Marrow, W.R. and Wilson, R.C. (1961). Family Relations of Bright High Achieving and Under
Achipving High School Boys. Child Development. 32:50 I-51 O.
Paget.. K.D., Nagle, R.J., and Martin, R.P. (1984). Interrelationships Between Temperament
Characteristics and First Grack Teacher-Student Interactions. Journal of Abnormal Child
Psycbology. 12: 547-560.
Pedhazlir, E.J. , (1982). _Multiple rezression i ..... vio ... 1 reteerch. N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Phillips, D., McCartney, K., & Scarr, S. (1987). Child care Quality and Children's Social Development.
Developmental Psychology. 23(4):537-543.
Published
1997-11-01
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