Gary Resnick

School competence in young adolescence: Links to early attachment relationships beyond concurrent self-perceived competence and representations of relationships

Predictive associations of infant attachment to mothers and fathers with later school functioning, beyond the contribution of contemporaneous representations of relationships and circumstances of caregiving, were examined in 66 young adolescents who were raised in infancy in Israeli kibbutzim with collective sleeping. The Strange Situation Procedure was used to evaluate early attachment to mother and father, the Separation Anxiety Test was used to assess contemporaneous representation of relationships, and teachers’ reports evaluated school functioning. Circumstances of caregiving included parental reports of quality of marital relations and a change from collective sleeping to home sleeping for children. Results showed that infant attachment to mother, but not to father, contributed significant additional variance to the prediction of children’s scholastic skills and emotional maturity beyond the contribution of concurrent representations of relationships and changes in circumstances of caregiving. The results support the secure base construct as an organising concept of longitudinal investigations of attachment.

Building supportive communities for at-risk adolescents: It takes more than services.

The History of Comprehensive Service Integration Defining Adolescence and Risk A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Risk Integrated Services - Initiatives Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami Teen Connectors The Belafonte-Talcolcy Centre, Inc. Oasis Centre Chins Up Youth and Family Services Houston Communities in Schools I Have a Future Garfield Youth Services Centre for Family Life Service Integration and Other Cross-Cutting Issues Evaluating Programmes Offering Integrated Services and Actitivies to Youth Financing Integrated Services Programmes Summary and Conclusions.

RECENT RESEARCH ON FAMILY FACTORS AND READINESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MILITARY LEADERS

Past research on the relationship between family factors and military readiness in the Army has suggested that family issues affect retention far more than readiness. New data on individual soldier readiness were analyzed to assess the relative importance of family factors (internal and external family adaptation) compared to unit readiness, longevity, rank, and gender. Family factors were significant predictors, although external family adaptation appeared to be more important than internal family adaptation. Although variables related to retention were more strongly related to family factors than our readiness variables, the differences were less substantial than those reported previously. The data seemed to suggest that reserve-component readiness might be more affected by family stress than the active component and that officer readiness might be more strongly affected by family worries than enlisted personnel readiness, but more research is needed to confirm those results.

Gender Effects and Marital Satisfaction: A Brief Report from a Sample of Dual Military Couples from the 1992 Department of Defense Worldwide Survey of Members and Spouses

Among 1,320 dual military couples who responded to the 1992 Department of Defense Worldwide Survey of Military Members and Spouses, female spouses reported lower marital satisfaction than male spouses (effect size = .14), a result comparable to previous research on sex differences in marital quality. However, no differences were observed for parental satisfaction, but female spouses were more satisfied with time their partners had available for family, although both spouses were much less satisfied with the latter than with either marital or parental relationships.