Effortful Control among Low-Income Preschoolers in Three Cities: Stability, Change, and Individual Differences

Autor/in	Li-Grining, Christine P.
Titel	Effortful Control among Low-Income Preschoolers in Three Cities: Stability, Change, and Individual Differences
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 43 (2007) 1, S.208-221 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Risk; Body Weight; Individual Differences; Preschool Children; Low Income Groups; Stress Variables; Self Management; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Child Development; Behavior Change; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Personality + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risiko; Körpergewicht; Individueller Unterschied; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Selbstmanagement; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Kindesentwicklung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Personalität
Abstract	Existing developmental models of effortful control focus more on the roles of child characteristics and parenting and focus less on the contributions of poverty-related stressors to individual differences in children's self-regulatory competence. Using a representative sample of low-income, predominantly African American and Latino children (n = 439), the author examined effortful control at ages 2-4 and again 16 months later. Delayed gratification showed moderate stability and improvement over time. Risk factors were associated with individual differences in these developmental patterns, net of child age, gender, temperament, and child-mother connectedness. Low birth weight compromised preschoolers' delayed gratification and executive control. Exposure to more sociodemographic and residential stressors jeopardized children's executive control but did not jeopardize delayed gratification. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10