The impact of formal school entry on children’s social relationships with parents, siblings, and friends |
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Author: | Heuser-Spura, Katharina M.1,2; Jäkel, Julia3,4; Wolke, Dieter4,5 |
Organizations: |
1Department of Pediatrics I, Neonatology, Pediatric Intensive Care and Pediatric Neurology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45122 Essen, Germany 2Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801 Bochum, Germany 3Unit of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland; Julia.Jaekel@oulu.fi
4Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; D.Wolke@warwick.ac.uk
5Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022020717892 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2022-02-07 |
Description: |
AbstractThe normative transition to formal schooling confronts children with social challenges but also opportunities. Longitudinal research on how school entry impacts children’s family and friend-ship relationships is scarce. This study investigated social relationship qualities with parents, siblings, and friends among 1110 children (49.9% female) from the prospective, population-based Bavarian Longitudinal Study at 6 years (before school entry) and 8 years using a forced-choice card-sorting task. Multivariate analyses of variance revealed significant effects of age (i.e., school entry) on social relationship qualities with mothers (Pillai’s Trace (PT) = 0.28, F(9, 1101) = 47.73, p <0.001), fathers (PT = 0.14, F(9, 1101) = 19.47, p<0.001), siblings (PT = 0.27, F(9, 1101) = 46.14, p<0.001), and friends (PT = 0.21, F(9, 1101) = 32.57, p<0.001). On average, children reported higher levels of parental comfort after school entry. Companionable qualities increased in relationships with friends, whereas sibling relationships became more conflictual from preschool to early school age. Findings provide unique insights into how social relationships develop from preschool to early school age, supporting evidence of the growing importance of friends. Conflict was predominant and increasing in sibling relationships and should be considered more in future research. see all
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Series: |
Children |
ISSN: | 2227-9067 |
ISSN-E: | 2227-9067 |
ISSN-L: | 2227-9067 |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 10 |
Article number: | 891 |
DOI: | 10.3390/children8100891 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.3390/children8100891 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
515 Psychology |
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Funding: |
This research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant numbers PKE24 and JUG14. D.W. was supported by EU Horizon 2020, grant number 733280 RECAP. The APC was funded by the University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. |
Copyright information: |
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