Jelena Obradovi?
Effortful control and adaptive functioning of homeless children: Variable-focused and person-focused analyses
Stanford University
homeless children show significant developmental delays across major domains adaptation yet research protective processes may contribute resilient adaptation highly disadvantaged group children extremely rare study examined role effortful control adaption 58 homeless children ages 56 transition school effortful control skills assessed using childrens performance four standard laboratory tasks adaptive functioning assessed teacher report academic competence peer competence internalizing externalizing symptoms variablefocused personfocused results indicate effortful control may important marker school readiness resilience controlling child iq parenting quality sociodemographic risks effortful control emerged significant predictor four salient developmental domains adaptation well resilient status homeless children implications findings discussed future research design interventions