Research over the past decade has focused on ways that parents enhance or constrain the
quantity and quality of their children's interactions with peers outside of the immediate family …

The purpose of this chapter is to explore linkages between two arenas of social competence,
family and peer, with a focus on linkages between one particular subsystem within the family …

The influence of parents on their offsprings' peer relations is not limited to childhood but
continues throughout the adolescent years. Little is, however, known about which …

During the past several decades, researchers have made important strides in their
knowledge about families and their understanding of children's peer relations. Yet, the …

Links between children's relationships with their parents and with their peers have received
significant theoretical and empirical attention in the past 15 years. This focus has grown, in …

For the most part, separate research traditions have developed to study children's
relationships with parents and peers. The organization and format of this handbook reflect …

This study identifies parental strategies that are effective in promoting peer competence for
younger (2-2 years to 3-6 years) and older preschoolers (3-7 years to 5-11 years). Secondly …

An early view of the development of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors during childhood
and adolescence suggested that such outcomes stemmed largely from the quality of the …

Abstract identify and describe a number of family processes that have been targeted in
recent investigations and empirically linked to children's competence with age-mates/both …

This study examined the role of child characteristics and various family relations in
predicting early social competence with peers. The study took a multivariate, family-as-a …