Examining individual‐level academic risk and protective factors for foster youth: School engagement, behaviors, self‐esteem, and social skills.

Students' school engagement is widely regarded as critical for positive school adjustment and overall academic success. Foster youth persistently face poorer educational outcomes than peers and demonstrate lower levels of school engagement and higher levels of academically threatening behaviors. The...

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Publicado en:Child & Family Social Work Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 256 - 267
Autores principales: Mihalec‐Adkins, Brittany P., Cooley, Morgan E.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell May2020
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          Mihalec‐Adkins, Brittany P.
          Cooley, Morgan E.
        affil: Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana
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          Child, Foster Psychosocial Factors
          Academic Performance Psychosocial Factors
          Outcomes of Education
          Human
          Student Attitudes
          Random Sample
          Self Concept
          Social Skills
          Academic Achievement
          Foster Parents Psychosocial Factors
          Parental Attitudes
          Behavioral Symptoms
          Child
          Adolescence
          Male
          Female
          Questionnaires
          Reliability and Validity
          Internal Consistency
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Analysis of Variance
          Correlational Studies
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
          Linear Regression
          Relative Risk
          Psychological Tests
          Scales
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Students' school engagement is widely regarded as critical for positive school adjustment and overall academic success. Foster youth persistently face poorer educational outcomes than peers and demonstrate lower levels of school engagement and higher levels of academically threatening behaviors. The goals of the present study were (a) to explore relationships amongst various child‐level correlates of school engagement and problem behaviors—namely, self‐esteem and social skills—and (b) to respectively investigate the protective potential of self‐esteem and social skills in the association between school engagement and behavior problems that threaten educational trajectories. Results indicate significant associations between school engagement and problem behaviors, as well as between self‐esteem, social skills, and school engagement. Further, self‐esteem mediated the association between school engagement and both youth‐ and foster parent‐reported externalizing behavior, and social skills mediated the association between school engagement and both youth‐ and foster parent‐reported externalizing behavior. Implications for future practice, research, and policy are discussed.
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