Family Communication Patterns and the Development of Social Competence in Preschool Children [microform] / Elizabeth W. Fullard.
The hypothesis that different communication patterns would be found in South African families with children of high and low social competence was tested on a sample of 36 white families with 5-year-old preschool children. The communication patterns of 18 families with children of high social compete...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The hypothesis that different communication patterns would be found in South African families with children of high and low social competence was tested on a sample of 36 white families with 5-year-old preschool children. The communication patterns of 18 families with children of high social competence, as assessed by preschool teachers, were compared with those of 18 families with children of low social competence. In each family, interaction between the child and his or her parents was generated by a series of five relatively simple tasks; interaction was coded and analyzed according to Bales' Interaction Process Analysis. As hypothesized, significant differences in the communication patterns of the two groups of families were found. Discussion specifies aspects of effective and ineffective communication, and profiles ways children with high and low social competence are socially educated and miseducated by parents at home. Educational implications of the findings for children's acquisition of social competence are pointed out. (RH) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children (66th, Washington, DC, March 28-April 1, 1988). ERIC Document Number: ED295740. |
| Physical Description: | 14 pages. |