Impacts of Unfavourable Socioeconomic Factors on School Adaptation in First-Graders

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Abstract

The paper presents results of a study on the effects of unfavourable socioeconomic factors in preschool development on the features of school adaptation in children of Arkhangelsk city. The study involved 193 first-graders aged 7—8 years. A set of sixteen methods was used to describe the components of school adaptation: cognitive, emotional, emotional-behavioral, behavioral. Socioeconomic risk factors were analysed using the Social Family Passport technique. Statistical analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics, correlation and stepwise discriminant analysis. The most frequent factors of socioeconomic deprivation are the following: drastic changes in the child’s life; disparity in the estimated values of the family’s living expenses; parental alcoholism and smoking; incomplete families, etc. It is shown that adverse socioeconomic factors in preschool childhood have a controversial effect on the features of school adaptation in children, but are definitely a significant risk for all of its components.

General Information

Keywords: school adaptation, socioeconomic risk factors, disadaptation, first-graders

Journal rubric: Educational Psychology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/pse.2019240206

Funding. The work was supported by the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project № 19-013-00348).

Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to school administrators, teachers and psychologists of state schools №50 and № 9 in Arkhangelsk.

For citation: Kazakova E.V., Sokolova L.V. Impacts of Unfavourable Socioeconomic Factors on School Adaptation in First-Graders. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie = Psychological Science and Education, 2019. Vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 59–71. DOI: 10.17759/pse.2019240206. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Elena V. Kazakova, PhD in Biology, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Higher School of Psychology, Pedagogy and Physical Education, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Russia, e-mail: kaz-elena10@yandex.ru

Lyudmila V. Sokolova, Doctor of Biology, Head of the Department of Human Biology and Biotechnical Systems, Higher School of Natural Sciences and Technologies, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk, Russia, e-mail: sluida@yandex.ru

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