Children are socialized within their families, and parents have the major impact on their cognitive, academic and socio-emotional development. Family life has changed over the years, bringing about new challenges for parents and researchers. Many previous studies have focused on the relationship between parental variables and child development, such as family socioeconomic status (SES), parenting style, parental involvement, parental time and energy, etc. However, family is a complex system which is more than just the sum of its parts. It is an organized whole that has interaction patterns of subsystems which compose the family.
Therefore, more studies are needed to explore the synergistic effects of family characteristics on children’s development in a more integrated and ecological way. For example, how different dimensions of family variables interact with each other, what’s the difference between mother and father when they participate in their children’s education, if the relationship between family variables and child developmental outcomes is moderated by different kinds of family structure, and which combination of family characteristics is more beneficial for children’s development, etc.
Within this research topic, we aim to provide more information on the synergistic effects of multiple family characteristics on children’s development. We aim to solicit a range of original research articles that contribute to the recent advances in understanding the relationship between family characteristics and children’s academic achievement, motivation, subject wellbeing and social ability. In this topic, studies using the moderating model or the person-centered methods to explore the synergistic effects of family characteristics will suit perfectly for this topic. In addition, the studies which use the observational approach in real life scenes or labs are also welcome in this topic.
Children are socialized within their families, and parents have the major impact on their cognitive, academic and socio-emotional development. Family life has changed over the years, bringing about new challenges for parents and researchers. Many previous studies have focused on the relationship between parental variables and child development, such as family socioeconomic status (SES), parenting style, parental involvement, parental time and energy, etc. However, family is a complex system which is more than just the sum of its parts. It is an organized whole that has interaction patterns of subsystems which compose the family.
Therefore, more studies are needed to explore the synergistic effects of family characteristics on children’s development in a more integrated and ecological way. For example, how different dimensions of family variables interact with each other, what’s the difference between mother and father when they participate in their children’s education, if the relationship between family variables and child developmental outcomes is moderated by different kinds of family structure, and which combination of family characteristics is more beneficial for children’s development, etc.
Within this research topic, we aim to provide more information on the synergistic effects of multiple family characteristics on children’s development. We aim to solicit a range of original research articles that contribute to the recent advances in understanding the relationship between family characteristics and children’s academic achievement, motivation, subject wellbeing and social ability. In this topic, studies using the moderating model or the person-centered methods to explore the synergistic effects of family characteristics will suit perfectly for this topic. In addition, the studies which use the observational approach in real life scenes or labs are also welcome in this topic.
