ERIC Number: EJ983677
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jul
Pages: 35
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-930X
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Predicting Academic Achievement from Cumulative Home Risk: The Mediating Roles of Effortful Control, Academic Relationships, and School Avoidance
Swanson, Jodi; Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, v58 n3 Article 5 p375-408 Jul 2012
Components of the home environment are associated with children's academic functioning. The accumulation of risks in the home are expected to prove more detrimental to achievement than any one risk alone, but the processes accounting for this relation are unclear. Using an index of cumulative home risk (CHR) inclusive of protective factors, as well as risks, we examined child-level and school environment variables as potential mediators of the relation of CHR to academic achievement in a sample of 266 third-grade through fifth-grade children. Parents reported on the home environment, and school-issued report cards assessed achievement. Results from structural equation models indicated that children's effortful control (parent- and child-reported), conflictual peer and student-teacher relationships (teacher- and child-reported), and school avoidance (teacher- and child-reported) significantly mediated the relation between CHR and achievement. Findings offer insights into specific mechanisms that link a negative home environment to academic functioning. (Contains 2 figures, 2 footnotes and 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Risk Assessment, Family Environment, Structural Equation Models, Parent Influence, Self Control, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Educational Environment, Report Cards, Elementary School Students, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Conflict
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 3; Grade 4; Grade 5
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Language: English
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