Marital Satisfaction, Family Emotional Expressiveness, Home Learning Environments, and Children's Emergent Literacy

Autor/inn/en	Froyen, Laura C.; Skibbe, Lori E.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Blow, Adrian J.; Gerde, Hope K.
Titel	Marital Satisfaction, Family Emotional Expressiveness, Home Learning Environments, and Children's Emergent Literacy
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 75 (2013) 1, S.42-55 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
Schlagwörter	Marital Satisfaction; Family Relationship; Emotional Response; Preschool Children; Mothers; Family Environment; Emergent Literacy; Reading Skills; Path Analysis; Positive Attitudes; Negative Attitudes; Questionnaires; Decoding (Reading); Alphabets; Phonological Awareness; Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionales Verhalten; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Mother; Mutter; Familienmilieu; Frühleseunterricht; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Pfadanalyse; Negative Fixierung; Fragebogen; Dekodierung; Buchstabenschrift
Abstract	The current study investigates associations among marital satisfaction, family emotional expressiveness, the home learning environment, and preschool-aged children's emergent literacy skills among 385 Midwestern mothers and their children. Path analyses examined how marital satisfaction related to emotional expressiveness in the home and whether this path was associated with the home learning environment and children's literacy skills. Higher maternal satisfaction was associated with higher levels of positive and lower levels of negative family emotional expressiveness. Additionally, family emotional environments characterized by mothers with higher positive expression were related to better home learning environments, which in turn were associated with higher literacy skills in children. Study findings underscore the importance of marital and family processes when considering young children's academic development. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10