This longitudinal study examined associations between three after-school program quality features (positive staff-child relations, available activities, programming flexibility) and child developmental outcomes (reading and math grades, work habits, and social skills with peers) in Grade 2 and then Grade 3. Participants (n = 120 in Grade 2, n = 91 in Grade 3) attended after-school programs more...

A wealth of research demonstrates the importance of early parent-child interactions on children's social functioning. However, less is known about the interrelations between child and parent characteristics and parent-child interactions in early childhood. Moreover, few studies have broadly examined the longitudinal relations between these constructs and social competence. This study is an exam...

Pub Date 67 Note-94p. Abstracts are presented for 140 masters' theses and doctoral dissertations in the area of family relations and child development completed in 1%6 at 32 institutions. They are grouped according to the age of the subjects used in the investigations. Child development studies are classified as infant and young child, elementary school age, adolescent, and miscellaneous; famil...