The aim of our study is to investigate how family structure is related to the risk of social-emotional difficulties in early childhood. The variable measuring family structure measures not only whether a child is raised by one or two parents, or whether the family is intact or a stepfamily, but also whether the child has half- or step siblings. The data come from the Cohort ’18 Growing Up in Hungary study. Bivariate analyses, and baseline model controlling with demographic data on mother and child, indicate higher social-emotional risk in different types of non-intact families than in intact families. However, further analyses show that these can be explained by the less favourable social status of non-intact families, and other relevant characteristics (e.g., conflict between parents, mental health of the mother, spatial location of residence).
Tanulmányunk célja annak vizsgálata, hogy a családszerkezet hogyan függ össze a társas-érzelmi nehézségek kockázatával kora gyermekkorban. A családszerkezet leírására kialakított változó méri, hogy egy vagy két szülő neveli-e a gyermeket; hogy a párkapcsolatra épülő család intakt vagy mozaik család-e, és hogy élnek-e a családban a gyermeknek fél- és/vagy póttestvérei. Az adatok forrása a Kohorsz ’18 Magyar Születési Kohorszvizsgálat. Az anya, valamint a gyermek demográfiai jellemzőit is kontroll alatt tartva, eredményeink jelzik, hogy a nem intakt családok különböző típusaiban a kockázati értékek magasabbak, mint az intakt családokban. Az összefüggés a nem intakt családokra jellemző kedvezőtlenebb társadalmi státusszal és egyéb tényezőkkel (szülők közötti konfliktusok, anya mentális egészsége, lakóhely területi elhelyezkedése) magyarázható.
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