Extracurricular involvement in the school‐age years has widespread potential benefits for children's subsequent socioemotional development, especially for low‐income youth. However, there is a dearth of research on interventions aimed at increasing school‐age extracurricular involvement in low‐income youth. Thus, the present study aimed to test the collateral effect of a brief, family‐focused intervention for low‐income families, the Family Check‐Up, on children's school‐age extracurricular involvement via improvements in maternal positive behavior support (PBS) in early childhood. The sample (n = 630, 50% female, 50% White, 28% Black/African American) represented a subsample of families from the Early Steps Multisite Study. At the age of two, families were randomly assigned to the Family Check‐Up or Women, Infants, and Children Nutritional Supplement Services as usual. Mother‐child dyads participated in observed interaction tasks at child ages 2 and 3 that were subsequently coded to assess PBS. Primary caregivers reported on children's school‐age extracurricular involvement at ages 7.5, 8.5, and 9.5. Results indicated that although there was not a direct path between intervention status and children's school‐age extracurricular involvement, a significant indirect path emerged from intervention group to changes in PBS between ages 2 to 3 to children's school‐age extracurricular involvement. The results are discussed in terms of implications for designing preventive interventions in early childhood that promote extracurricular involvement at school‐age, particularly for children at risk for maladaptive outcomes.

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家庭检查通过改善幼儿期母亲积极行为支持对青少年学龄期课外活动的间接影响

学龄期的课外活动对儿童随后的社会情感发展具有广泛的潜在益处，尤其是对低收入青年而言。然而，关于旨在增加低收入青年学龄课外活动参与的干预措施的研究很少。因此，本研究旨在通过早期母亲积极行为支持 (PBS) 的改善来测试针对低收入家庭的简短的、以家庭为中心的干预措施（家庭检查）对儿童学龄课外活动的附带影响。童年。样本（n = 630，50% 女性，50% 白人，28% 黑人/非裔美国人）代表 Early Steps 多地点研究中的家庭子样本。在两岁时，家庭像往常一样被随机分配到家庭检查或妇女、婴儿和儿童营养补充服务。母子二人组参与观察到的 2 岁和 3 岁儿童互动任务，这些任务随后被编码以评估 PBS。主要照顾者报告了儿童在 7.5、8.5 和 9.5 岁时的学龄课外活动。结果表明，尽管干预状态与儿童学龄课外参与之间没有直接的路径，但从干预组到 2 至 3 岁之间 PBS 的变化与儿童学龄课外参与之间存在显着的间接路径。