@article {208,
	title = {Typologies of family functioning and children{\textquoteright}s adjustment during the early school years.},
	journal = {Child Dev},
	volume = {81},
	year = {2010},
	month = {2010 Jul-Aug},
	pages = {1320-35},
	abstract = {<p>Guided by family systems theory, the present study sought to identify patterns of family functioning from observational assessments of interparental, parent-child, and triadic contexts. In addition, it charted the implications for patterns of family functioning for children\&$\#$39;s developmental trajectories of adjustment in the school context across the early school years. Two-hundred thirty-four kindergarten children (129 girls and 105 boys; mean age = 6.0 years, SD = 0.50 at Wave 1) and their parents participated in this multimethod, 3-year longitudinal investigation. As expected, latent class analyses extracted 3 primary typologies of functioning including: (a) cohesive, (b) enmeshed, and (c) disengaged families. Furthermore, family patterns were differentially associated with children\&$\#$39;s maladaptive adjustment trajectories in the school context. The findings highlight the developmental utility of incorporating pattern-based approaches to family functioning.</p>
},
	keywords = {Adaptation, Psychological, Child, Family Relations, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Models, Statistical, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Schools, Social Adjustment, Social Environment, Students},
	issn = {1467-8624},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01471.x},
	author = {Sturge-Apple, Melissa L and Davies, Patrick T and Cummings, E Mark}
}
