Increases in Maternal Education and Young Children's Language Skills

Autor/inn/en	Magnuson, Katherine A.; Sexton, Holly R.; Davis-Kean, Pamela E., Huston, Aletha C.
Titel	Increases in Maternal Education and Young Children's Language Skills
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 55 (2009) 3, S.319-350 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	School Readiness; Mothers; Educationally Disadvantaged; Young Children; Receptive Language; Language Skills; Parent Influence; Educational Attainment; Correlation; Cognitive Development; Academic Ability; Language Acquisition; Economically Disadvantaged; Family Environment; Expressive Language; Depression (Psychology); Family Structure; Family Income; Gender Differences; Child Health; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment; Bracken Basic Concept Scale; Reynell Developmental Language Scales + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Mother; Mutter; Frühe Kindheit; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Korrelation; Kognitive Entwicklung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Familienmilieu; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Familieneinkommen; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Maternal education is a strong correlate of children's language, cognitive, and academic development. In most prior research, mothers' education has been treated as a fixed characteristic, yet many mothers, particularly economically and educationally disadvantaged mothers, attend school after the birth of their children. In the present study, we use longitudinal data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to consider whether increases in maternal education are associated with concurrent improvements in children's school readiness, Language skills, and the quality of home environments at age 3. Increases in mothers' education are linked to young children's expressive and receptive language skills but only among mothers with initially low levels of education. Increases in education are also associated with improvements in some aspects of children's home environments, particularly mothers' responsiveness and the provision of learning materials. Mediation analyses provide some evidence that improvements in children's language associated with increased maternal education are due in part to changes in the quality of home environments. (Contains 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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