Study examined relations between mothers' and fathers' advice-giving style and content and third-graders' social competence and psychosocial functioning at a single time point and across a one-year period. Findings indicated that advice-giving style predicted social competence, concurrently and one year later, above and beyond content. Fathers' advice-giving predicted peer and teacher social competence ratings beyond mothers' advice- giving, concurrently and one year later. Advice-giving style related to loneliness and depression. (Author/KB)