Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

School of Social Welfare

Content Description

1 online resource (x, 133 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Hal A Lawson

Committee Members

Katharine Briar-Lawson, Randal D Day

Keywords

Academic engagement, Family process, parent-child relationships quality, Parental monitoring, Single-parent, Children of single parents, Home and school, Mothers and daughters, Mothers and sons, Single-parent families, Single mothers, Mother and child, Prediction of scholastic success, Academic achievement

Subject Categories

Education | Social Work

Abstract

Using a sample of 110 mother-headed single-parent families, this longitudinal study examined the relationship between pre-adolescent students’ academic engagement and three variables: Parental monitoring, parent-child attachment, and observed child-parent relationship quality. Special interest resided in the extent to which observed relationship quality or attachment moderated the relationship between parental monitoring and academic engagement.

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