caa a22 4500 386339392 CHVBK 20180307111743.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000432 doi S0954579400000432 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000432 Perceived and actual competence among maltreated and comparison school children [Elektronische Daten] This research examined the impact of child maltreatment and grade level on perceptions of competence and explored relations between perceived competence and school functioning among a sample of 104 low-income school children, half of whom belonged to families in which child maltreatment had been officially documented. Data were collected on 76 first through third graders and 28 fourth through sixth graders, who were interviewed in a laboratory setting, and on a subset of 74 children, who were evaluated by their teachers on measures of school functioning. Results indicated that maltreated children perceive themselves and/or describe themselves differently than do their low-income peers. However, these differences took the expected negative direction only beginning around the middle of the elementary school years. In earlier grades, maltreated children demonstrated a tendency to describe themselves in exaggerated positive terms, over and above the self-enhancement bias documented here and in other research among younger nonmaltreated children. Differences between maltreated and comparison children also appeared in teachers' ratings of school functioning and in use of special educational services. These results are presented and discussed as suggestive evidence for a causal chain from parent-child relationships, to self-perceptions, to school functioning. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Vondra Joan Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester Barnett Douglas Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester Cicchetti Dante Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 237-255 0954-5794 1:3<237 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000432 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000432 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vondra Joan Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barnett Douglas Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cicchetti Dante Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 237-255 0954-5794 1:3<237 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge