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The impact of formal school entry on children’s social relationships with parents, siblings, and friends

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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 ISSN 2227-9067. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ]

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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
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
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
Dates:
DateEvent
6 October 2021Published
2 October 2021Accepted
Volume: 8
Number: 10
Article Number: e891
DOI: 10.3390/children8100891
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 October 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 October 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
PKE24Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschunghttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
JUG14Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschunghttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
733280 RECAPHorizon 2020 Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
UNSPECIFIEDUniversität Duisburg. Essenhttp://viaf.org/viaf/152819495
UNSPECIFIEDUniversitätsklinikum Essenhttp://viaf.org/viaf/153090003
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