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Divorce Family Structure and the Academic Success of Children.
Trace the influence of family factors on children's emotional and educational well-being!The effect of family changes on children's academic success is a new subject for study. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children is a comprehensive volume that brings research on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover
- Divorce, Family Structure and the Academic Success of Children
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword: Herb Walberg
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Historical Background of the Study
- Chronological Highlights
- Historical and Contemporary Facts Regarding Family Structure
- Chapter 2. Research Regarding the Effects of Family Structure on Children
- The Effects of Divorce on Academic Achievement: Research Results
- The Effects of Remarriage Following Divorce on Academic Achievement
- The Emotional and Psychological Effects of Divorce on Children
- Circumstances That Can Influence the Effects of Divorce
- The Influence of Time on the Effects of Divorce
- The Effects of Divorce by Race
- Chapter 3. Methodological Issues in Research on Divorce and Family Structure
- Theory and Research Literature
- Relevant Research Syntheses and Meta-Analyses
- Methods
- Models
- Chapter 4. The Problems with Using Socioeconomic Status in Research
- The Importance of Using SES Variables
- The Issue of Causality
- Predisruption versus Postdisruption Variables
- Chapter 5. Problems Involving Analysis of Socioeconomic Status
- Predisruption SES Variables
- Results Using the Postdisruption SES Measures
- Obtaining Effects for Divorce Using a Predisruption Control for SES
- Discussion
- Chapter 6. Determining the Effects of Remarriage
- Results for Study Number 1
- Discussion
- Results for Study Number 2
- Discussion
- Chapter 7. Remarriage and Mobility
- Hypotheses and Analyses Undertaken
- Results
- Discussion
- Chapter 8. The Effects of Living with Neither Parent on Academic Achievement
- Results
- Discussion
- Chapter 9. The Effects of the Most Common Family Structures on Academic Achievement
- Theoretical Framework
- Family Structure Variables
- Discussion.
- Chapter 10. Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Remarriage Following Divorce on Academic Achievement
- Methods and Data Sources
- Models
- Results
- Discussion
- Chapter 11. Testing Other Important Hypotheses
- The Proper Category Hypothesis
- Custodial Parent's Gender Hypothesis
- The Distinction Hypothesis
- Chapter 12. What Does It All Mean?
- Consequences of Underestimating Influence of Family Structure
- Sensitizing Educators to the Challenges of Children from Nontraditional Families
- Alternative Ways to Control for SES
- Summary
- References
- Index.