Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother-Child Interactions: Variation by Race and Ethnicity

Autor/inn/en	Gibson-Davis, Christina M.; Gassman-Pines, Anna
Titel	Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother-Child Interactions: Variation by Race and Ethnicity
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 46 (2010) 1, S.151-164 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0017410
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Mothers; Young Children; Family Structure; Parents; Parent Child Relationship; Racial Differences; Interaction; Marital Status; One Parent Family; Divorce; Child Development; Family Influence; Whites; Hispanic Americans; Cultural Differences; Cognitive Development; Child Behavior; Stimulation; Longitudinal Studies; Negative Attitudes; African Americans; Asian Americans; Educational Attainment; Employment Level; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Mother; Mutter; Frühe Kindheit; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Eltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Rassenunterschied; Interaktion; Familienstand; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Ehescheidung; Kindesentwicklung; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Kultureller Unterschied; Kognitive Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Negative Fixierung; Afroamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Beschäftigungsgrad
Abstract	With data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 6,449), a nationally representative sample of births in 2001, we used hierarchical linear modeling to analyze differences in observed interactions between married, cohabiting, never-married, and divorced mothers and their children. In contrast to previous studies, we concentrated on early childhood, a developmentally critical period that has been understudied in the family structure literature, and relied on objective observational measures of mother-child interactions, which are unlikely to be biased by maternal perceptions of interactions with children. Nonmarital family structures were common in the lives of young children, as 32% lived outside of a married, biological parent home. Initial results indicated that married families were consistently associated with higher quality interactions. Moreover, though it was hypothesized that the presence of a biological father might be associated with higher quality interactions than single-parent households, this hypothesis was not confirmed. Additional models suggest that race and ethnicity moderated the effect of family structure, as non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White participants showed little significant variation between married and unmarried families. Among Hispanics, mothers living in cohabiting, divorced, or single families, when compared to married mothers, exhibited more negative and more intrusive behaviors; cohabiting mothers also scored lower on the measure of cognitive stimulation. Results suggest that marriage may not be uniformly associated with higher levels of mother-child interactions and that cohabitation, particularly for Hispanics, may be associated with adverse outcomes. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10