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The Relationship Between Parental Management of Peer Interactions and Children's Social Competence

Dept. of Health and Human Development, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717

A study of the relationship between parental opportunities for and management of children's peer interactions and the social competence of their child was con ducted. Subjects consisted of 36 children, ages 47 to 66 months, and their par ents. Questionnaires on opportunities provided by parents for peer interactions and management of these interactions were completed by the parents. Peer so ciometric evaluations of acceptance and popularity and teacher ratings of social competence were collected on the children. Correlational analyses showed pos itive relationships between mothers' opportunities for and management of inter actions and all of the children's measures of social competence. In contrast, only fathers' opportunities for interactions were correlated with the children's mea sures. These data suggest important links between parental opportunities pro vided for play and the peer social system.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 263-269 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8901700306


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