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Environmental Inequality and Disparities in School Readiness: The Role of Neurotoxic Lead
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Schachner, Jared N.; Wodtke, Geoffrey T. – Child Development, 2023
Developmental science has increasingly scrutinized how environmental hazards influence child outcomes, but few studies examine how contaminants affect disparities in early skill formation. Linking research on environmental inequality and early childhood development, this study assessed whether differences in exposure to neurotoxic lead explain…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, School Readiness, Poisoning, Hazardous Materials
The Role of Generic Language in the Early Development of Social Categorization
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Rhodes, Marjorie; Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Bianchi, Lydia; Chalik, Lisa – Child Development, 2018
Classifying people into categories not only helps humans simplify a complex social world but also contributes to stereotyping and discrimination. This research examines how social categorization develops by testing how language imbues with meaning otherwise arbitrary differences between people. Experimental studies (N = 129) with 2-year-olds…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Role, Stereotypes, Toddlers
Interwealth Contact and Young Children's Concern for Equity
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Elenbaas, Laura – Child Development, 2019
This study examined young children's contact with individuals of high-wealth and low-wealth backgrounds and their behavior toward peers of these backgrounds in a resource distribution task. The sample included 72 ethnically diverse higher income children (M[subscript age] = 6.68 years, SD = 0.98 years). Contact with individuals of low-wealth…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Family Income, Low Income, Peer Relationship
Family Functioning and Early Learning Practices in Immigrant Homes
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Jung, Sunyoung; Fuller, Bruce; Galindo, Claudia – Child Development, 2012
Poverty-related developmental-risk theories dominate accounts of uneven levels of household functioning and effects on children. But immigrant parents may sustain norms and practices--stemming from heritage culture, selective migration, and social support--that buffer economic exigencies. "Comparable" levels of social-emotional functioning in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Migration
Developmental Differences in Primary Reaching Responses of Young Infants from Varying Social Backgrounds
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Slovin-Ela, Susan; Kohen-Raz, R. – Child Development, 1978
Results were interpreted as suggesting that sociocultural factors may change the rate of development but not its course. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Environment, Infants, Middle Class
A Window into Different Cultural Worlds: Young Children's Everyday Activities in the United States, Brazil, and Kenya
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Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Doucet, Fabienne; Odero, Dolphine; Sperb, Tania M.; Piccinini, Cesar A.; Lopes, Rita S. – Child Development, 2006
A powerful means to understand young children's normative development in context is to examine their everyday activities. The daily activities of 79 children (3 years old) were observed, for 20 hr each, in their usual settings. Children were selected from 4 cultural groups: European American and African American (Greensboro, United States), Luo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Social Development, Observation
Biological Nonoptimality and Quality of Postnatal Environment as Codeterminants of Intellectual Development.
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Breitmayer, Bonnie J.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1986
A four-and-a-half-year longitudinal experiment reconsidered the contribution of organic impairment to the genesis of mild mental retardation among disadvantaged children. It was hypothesized that nonoptimal perinatal conditions might result in deficits that increase a child's vulnerability to environmental risk factors. Study results supported the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Day Care