Volume 6, Number 1, January–March 2006

REVIEW

Parents’ Educational Involvement: A Developmental Ecology Perspective
Rachel Seginer

Bronfenbrenner’s developmental ecological system allows a broader perspective on parents’ educational involvement, distinguishes between home- and school-based involvement, and brings to the fore the relevance of studying these issues in interpersonal and social-cultural contexts.

EMPIRICAL ARTICLES

Mother – Child Relationship as a Moderator of the Relation Between Family Educational Involvement and Child Achievement
Sandra D. Simpkins, Heather B. Weiss, Kathleen McCartney, Holly M. Kreider, and Eric Dearing

A positive or negative emotional climate moderates relations between parental educational involvement at school and children’s achievement.

Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link Between Physical Punishment and Child Externalizing Problems: A Parent – Offspring Behavior Genetic Analysis
Kirby Deater-Deckard, Linda Ivy, and Stephen A. Petrill

For both genetically related and adoptive mother – child pairs, physical punishment and child externalizing problems are positively correlated, but only in dyads that are low in maternal warmth.

Social Risk and Protective Child, Parenting, and Child Care Factors in Early Elementary School Years
Margaret Burchinal, Joanne E. Roberts, Susan A. Zeisel, Elizabeth A. Hennon, and Stephen Hooper

Language skills, more responsive parenting, and higher quality child care, factors that protect African American children from the negative association between exposure to social risk in early childhood, negatively predict academic achievement and adjustment in early elementary school.