Caregiving by low-income adolescent mothers and the language abilities of their 30-month-old children
✍ Scribed by Tom Luster; Marcia Vandenbelt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
The primary question of interest in this study was: Are the caregiving practices of low-income, teenage mothers during the first 2 years of their children's lives predictive of individual differences in the language abilities of their 30-month-old children? This question was addressed with a sample of 76 teenage mothers and their children who were participating in a family support program. Various measures of caregiving behavior, assessed when the children were 6, 12, and 24 months old, were significantly related to scores on the Preschool Language Scale-3, the Expressive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test, and Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Tests of the children.
RESUMEN: La pregunta esencial de intere ´s en este estudio es la de si las pra ´cticas de dar cuidado ofrecidas por madres adolescentes de bajo recursos econo ´micos, durante los dos primeros an ˜os de vida de sus nin ˜os, ayudan a predecir las diferencias individuales enlas habilidades de lenguaje de sus nin ˜os de 30 meses de nacidos. Esta pregunta fue respondida con una muestra de 76 madres de la edad antes mencionada, y sus nin ˜os, quienes participaron en un programa de apoyo familiar. Varias medidas de la conducta de prestar cuidado, evaluadas cuando los nin ˜os tenı ´an 6, 12 y 24 meses, fueron relacionadas significativamente a los resultados en la Escala de Lenguaje Pre-escolar que equivalen a-3, la