Do maternal stress and home environment mediate the relation between early income-to-need and 54-months attentional abilities?
✍ Scribed by Janean E. Dilworth-Bart; Ayesha Khurshid; Deborah Lowe Vandell
- Book ID
- 102272374
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 222 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-7227
- DOI
- 10.1002/icd.528
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Using Ecological Systems Theory and stage sequential modelling procedures for detecting mediation, this study examined how early developmental contexts impact preschoolers' performances on a measure of sustained attention and impulse control. Data from 1273 European‐American and African‐American participants in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care were used to identify the potential mediators of the relation between early household income‐to‐need (INR) and 54‐month impulsivity and inattention. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to determine whether the relationships between early income, home environment, parenting stress, and the outcome variables differ for African‐American versus European‐American‐American children. We found modest support for the study hypothesis that 36‐month home environment quality mediated the INR/attention relationship. INR accounted for more home environment score variance and home environment accounted for more Impulsivity score variance for African‐American children. Home environments were related to inattention in the European‐American, but not African‐American, group. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.