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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
Social Class Differences in Dyadic Involvement during Infancy.
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Farran, Dale C.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1980
The social interactions of 60 mother-infant pairs were observed for 25 minutes in a seminaturalistic setting when the infants were 6 months old and again at 20 months. Forty-six of the infants were termed at high risk for later school failure due to the socioeconomic situations of their families. (Author)
Descriptors: Infants, Influences, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers
Early Face-to-Face Interactions of British and American Working- and Middle-Class Mother-Infant Dyads.
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Field, Tiffany; Pawlby, Susan – Child Development, 1980
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Influences, Interaction Process Analysis
Comparison of the Expectations of Parents and Teachers for the Behavior of Preschool Children.
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Winetsky, Carol S. – Child Development, 1978
A picture inventory symbolically portraying two alternative value systems in a preschool setting was administered to 172 mothers and 66 female teachers of preschool children. Differences were found between the behavioral expectations of teachers and mothers who were either non-Anglo, working class, or both, but not between teachers and Anglo…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Mothers
Developmental Comparisons between Ten-Year-Old Children with Employed and Nonemployed Mothers
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Gold, Dolores; Andres, David – Child Development, 1978
Studied the sex-role concepts, personality adjustment, and academic achievement of 223 10-year-old girls and boys with either full-time employed or nonemployed mothers from working-class or middle-class families. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Elementary School Students, Employed Parents
The Naive Theory of the Infant and Other Maternal Attitudes in Two Subgroups in Israel.
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Ninio, Anat – Child Development, 1979
High and low SES mothers of one- and three-year-old children (N=104) were interviewed. Results showed that low SES mothers believed that infants acquire basic cognitive skills later and that the introduction of cognitively stimulating activities should occur later than did high SES mothers. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infants, Lower Class
Mother-Child Conversation in Different Social Classes and Communicative Settings.
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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Child Development, 1991
Working class and upper-middle class mothers were videotaped interacting with their toddlers in four settings. Samples of the mothers' adult-directed speech were also collected. Observed were social class differences in the mothers' child-directed speech and some parallel differences in the mothers' adult-directed speech. This may reflect more…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Mother Attitudes, Mothers
Mother-Child Interaction in the First Year of Life
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Tulkin, Steven R.; Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 1972
It was suggested that working-class mothers less frequently believed that their infants were capable of communicating with other people, and hence felt it was futile to attempt to interact with them verbally. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Family Environment, Infants
Picture-Book Reading in Mother-Infant Dyads Belonging to Two Subgroups in Israel.
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Ninio, Anat – Child Development, 1980
Investigates vocabulary acquisition in the context of joint picture-book reading in mother-infant dyads. Infants aged 17 to 22 months and their mothers, 20 middle-class and 20 lower-class dyads, were observed. In both groups interaction foucused on the eliciting or the provision of information. Results indicate several social class differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Interaction, Language Acquisition