| Chaos, Poverty, and Parenting: Predictors of Early Language Development. | |
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PMID: 23049162 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Studies have shown that distal family risk factors like poverty and maternal education are strongly related to children's early language development. Yet, few studies have examined these risk factors in combination with more proximal day-to-day experiences of children that might be critical to understanding variation in early language. Young children's exposure to a chronically chaotic household may be one critical experience that is related to poorer language, beyond the contribution of SES and other demographic variables. In addition, it is not clear whether parenting might mediate the relationship between chaos and language. The purpose of this study was to understand how multiple indicators of chaos over children's first three years of life, in a representative sample of children living in low wealth rural communities, were related to child expressive and receptive language at 36 months. Factor analysis of 10 chaos indicators over five time periods suggested two factors that were named household disorganization and instability. Results suggested that after accounting for thirteen covariates like maternal education and poverty, one of two chaos composites (household disorganization) accounted for significant variance in receptive and expressive language. Parenting partially mediated this relationship although household disorganization continued to account for unique variance in predicting early language. |
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Lynne Vernon-Feagans; Patricia Garrett-Peters; Mike Willoughby; Roger Mills-Koonce; |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-7-1 |
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Title: Early childhood research quarterly Volume: 27 ISSN: 0885-2006 ISO Abbreviation: Early Child Res Q Publication Date: 2012 |
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Created Date: 2012-10-10 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8701754 Medline TA: Early Child Res Q Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 339-351 Citation Subset: - |
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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