Divorce, socioeconomic status, and children's cognitive-social competence at school entry.
All 115 kindergarteners in a suburban school district were evaluated with an extensive battery of intellectual, academic, social, and adaptive behavior measures to determine the predictive significance of single-parent status on school-entry competencies. Divorce was found to add significant amounts of independent variance to the socioeconomic status predictions of several criteria, specifically those relating to social and academic competence. Both single-parent status and SES were more powerful predictors than other family background, developmental history, and health variables.
D000124:Achievement; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012574:Schools; D012847:Single Person; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012923:Social Class