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Heuser-Spura, Katharina M., Jaekel, Julia and Wolke, Dieter (2021) The impact of formal school entry on children’s social relationships with parents, siblings, and friends. Children, 8 (10). e891. doi:10.3390/children8100891
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/children8100891
Abstract
The 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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science > Psychology Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Parent and child, Brothers and sisters, Friendship in children, Families, Education, Primary, Readiness for school, Early childhood education | ||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Children | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2227-9067 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 6 October 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | e891 | ||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/children8100891 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||||||||
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