Home environment and cognitive development of black infants in impoverished South African families
✍ Scribed by L. M. Richter; K. W. Grieve
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 950 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
This study examined the interrelationships between home environment, mental and psychomotor development, growth, and educational and occupational indices of socioeconomic status among an urban sample of 305 African infants aged 2 to 30 months. The infants were assessed on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and the Home Screening Questionnaire, and their heights and weights were recorded. Information regarding the family's socioeconomic status was obtained during interviews with caretakers. No significant relationships were found between parental education and occupation and infant cognitive development, but quality of the home environment was positively correlated with these indices of parental socioeconomic status. On the other hand, home environment scores were found to be significantly related to mental development, independent of parental education and occupation. There was considerable variation in home environments in the sample, which was drawn from generally impoverished urban communities. These findings from an African cultural group support the generalizability of the importance of the quality of the home environment for infant development.
R6SUM6: Cette ttude examina les relations entre le milieu familial, le developpement psychomoteur et mental, la croissance, et les indices de statut socio-tconomique (indices ayant rapport a la profession et a l'tducation) dans un Cchantillon urbain de 305 btbts africains lgCs de 2 a 30 mois. Les btbts furent Cvaluts ti partir des Echelles Bayley de Dtveloppement Infantile ("Bayley Scales of Infant Development") et du Questionnaire de Dtpistage Familial ("Home Screening Questionnaire"). Leur taille et de leur poids furent notes. Les informations concernant le statut socio-tconomique de la famille furent obtenues au cours d'entretiens avec des responsables sociaux. Aucune relation importante 'a t t t decelte entre l'education et la profession parentales et le dtveloppement cognitif du btbt, mais la qualitt du milieu familial correspondait indeniablement B ces indices de statut socio-economique parental. D'autre part, le milieu familial s'avtra 2tre particulitrement lit au dtveloppement mental, indtpendamment de I'tducation et de la profession parentales. L'on a enregistrt des variations considerables entre les milieux familiaux dans l'tchantillon qui fut pris de communautts urbaines gtntralement pauvres. Ces rtsultats, obtenus a partir d'un groupe culture1 africain, viennent appuyer la gtntralisation possible de I'importance de la qualitt du milieu familial pour le dtveloppement de l'enfant. RESUMEN: Este estudio examina las interrelaciones entre el ambiente del hogar, el desarrollo mental y sicomotor, el crecimiento y 10s indices educacionales y ocupacionales de estatus socio-economicos entre un ejemplo urbano de 305 infantes africanos, de 2 a 30 meses de nacidos. Los infantes fueron evaluados en base a las Escalas Bayley para