The Adjustment of Australian Children Growing Up in Single-Parent Families as Measured by Their Competence and Self-Esteem.

Pike, Lisbeth T.

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Publication Date: 2003

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The Adjustment of Australian Children Growing Up in Single-Parent Families as Measured by Their Competence and Self-Esteem.

Pike, Lisbeth T.

Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, v10 n2 p181-200 May 2003

Compared the competence and self-esteem of 136 Australian primary school-aged children from different single-parent residency arrangements to those of a matched sample of two-parent children. Found that overall, single-parent children were not significantly different from two-parent children in competence levels and self-esteem. Found subtle differences in performance on the measures between and within each parent residency group linked to child gender and gender of the residential parent. (Author/KB)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Competence, Emotional Adjustment, Family Structure, Fatherless Family, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Nuclear Family, One Parent Family, Physical Development, Self Esteem, Sex Differences, Social Adjustment

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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