Associations Among Mothers' Reports of Family Daily Hassles and Family Resources and Children's Cognitive Ability: An Exploratory Study

• Main Author: Stuart, Troy D.
• Other Authors: Bonnie D. Belleau
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: LSU 2005
• Subjects: Human Ecology
• Online Access: http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042005-154619/

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among daily hassles, family resources, and childrens cognitive ability. Particular emphasis was placed on examining the relationships among the variables by family structure. A total of 205 children in first-grade and third-grade and their mothers participated in the study. There were 120 children from intact families and 85 children from single mother families in the study. All mothers completed assessments on family level variables and all children completed the BIA test of cognitive ability. Multiple regression analyses were utilized to examine the relationships among the variables. Daily hassles and cohesion were related to the cognitive ability scores of children living in intact families. Family hardiness was related to the cognitive ability scores of children living in single mother families. The findings indicated the existence of potentially important relationships among daily hassles, family resources, and childrens cognitive ability. The findings also indicated that the relationships among the variables differed by family structure.