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Predictors and outcomes of low-income fathers' reading with their toddlers

E Duursma, BA Pan… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
Most studies of parent–child bookreading have focused on mothers reading to their children.
Though the role of fathers in children's lives is widely emphasized, we know almost nothing
about father–child bookreading, particularly among low-income families. The present ...

Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read: A meta-analysis on intergenerational transmission of literacy

AG Bus, MH Van Ijzendoorn… - Review of Educational …, 1995 - rer.sagepub.com
... status, we expected similar associations between joint book reading and outcome measures
for ... Rodarmel (1992) found weaker evidence that the parents' reading practices were predictors
of the ... that many standardized tests may be less valid measures for low-income than for ...

Mother–child bookreading in lowincome families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life

H Raikes, B Alexander Pan, G Luze… - Child …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Thus, we examine both maternal variables and child variables as predictors of maternal ... early
transactional influences begin a pattern or cycle that relates to outcomes at later ages ... a
two-generation, federal program now serving approximately 62,000 very low income infants and ...

A picture book reading intervention in day care and home for children from low-income families.

GJ Whitehurst, DS Arnold, JN Epstein… - Developmental …, 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
... for children in the school plus home condition and the seven outcome measures showed p ... de-
pendent variable involving the simultaneous entry of the four pretest variables as predictors. ... a
repeated measures procedure in a combined analysis of posttest and fol- low-up scores ...

Effects of early and recent maternal employment on children from lowincome families

DL Vandell… - Child Development, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
... maternal employ- ment in order to determine which is the bet- ter predictor of children's ... as
cumulative stresses on families, thereby resulting in poorer social and aca- demic outcomes in
low ... Within a group of low- income, black fifth graders, IQ scores were highest when mothers ...

Maternal correlates of growth in toddler vocabulary production in lowincome families

BA Pan, ML Rowe, JD Singer… - Child Development, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... Table 1), suggesting that the predictive power of these variables within a low-income sample
was ... used the individual growth parameters from the within-person (Level 1) model as outcomes
and enabled ... approach is that it allowed us to examine the effects of predictors that are ...

The role of home literacy environment in the development of language ability in preschool children from low-income families

AC Payne, GJ Whitehurst… - Early Childhood Research …, 1994 - Elsevier
... Since the three predictor variables were correlated with the dependent measure of child ...
Scarborough Dobrich, 1994), where the amount of variance in child outcome measures accounted
for ... the economic difficulties and other stresses faced by the low income families, many still ...

Prediction of school outcomes based on early language production and socioeconomic factors

D Walker, C Greenwood, B Hart… - Child development, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
... tion in the school as influenced by SES- related factors over time are predictors of subsequent ...
Thirteen students (41%) attended low-SES (Federal Chapter 1 Program)^ schools. ... and between
variables at 36 months and elementary school, and to pre- dict outcomes across time ...

The role of home literacy practices in preschool children's language and emergent literacy skills

J Roberts, J Jurgens… - Journal of Speech, …, 2005 - jslhr.highwire.org
... family literacy practices only once; few studies have been longitudinal, with repeated assessments
of both the predictors and outcomes of interest. ... How- ever, a few other researchers who have
examined whether low-income African American parents differ in their frequency ...

Parent training of toddlers in day care in low-income urban communities.

D Gross, L Fogg, C Webster-Stratton… - Journal of Consulting …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
... 20-item measure was created by Hall and Farel (1988) from interviews with low-income mothers
with ... and Conduct Problem Behavior), which they suggest are relevant for examining treatment
outcomes. ... As we anticipated that some of the parents may have low reading skills, all ...

Children's television viewing and cognitive outcomes: a longitudinal analysis of national data

FJ Zimmerman… - Archives of Pediatrics and …, 2005 - Am Med Assoc
... the PIAT mathematics, reading recognition, and reading comprehension scores on the predictors
and the ... In the categorical model, only the low-high television viewing pattern was significant ...
between television viewing before age 3 years and adverse cognitive outcomes at ages ...

Early intervention and mediating processes in cognitive performance of children of lowincome African American families

MR Burchinal, FA Campbell, DM Brayant… - Child …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
... intellectually stimulat- ing environment to enhance cognitive, social, and emotional development
in low-income children. ... on alterna- tive weeks, more often if necessary, Measures Predictors
included treatments ... Outcomes of interest were longitudinal cognitive test scores. ...

Family influences on school achievement in low-income, African American children.

TG Halle, B Kurtz-Costes… - Journal of Educational …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
... Socioeconomic class continues to be a powerful predictor of academic success for American
children (Edelman, 1987 ... domain- specific, and, as noted above, the relationship between parent
beliefs and child outcomes is not well-understood in low-income minority children. ...

The influence of parent education and family income on child achievement: The indirect role of parental expectations and the home environment.

PE Davis-Kean - Journal of Family Psychology, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
... The correlations also provide some initial evidence that parent education and income are
moderate to strong predictors of achievement outcomes. ... exception of the indicators for the play
construct, all correlations related to parent beliefs and behaviors show a low to moderate ...

Relative efficacy of parent and teacher involvement in a shared-reading intervention for preschool children from low-income backgrounds

CJ Lonigan… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998 - Elsevier
... SES has been reported as one of the strongest predictors of school performance at the ... in dialogic
reading interventions for low-income children seem to depend on the outcome measure. ... Children
in the low compliance centers did not benefit from center-based dialogic reading ...

The effectiveness of Early Head Start for 3-year-old children and their parents: Lessons for policy and programs.

JM Love, EE Kisker, C Ross, H Raikes… - Developmental …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
... model; and (d) the issue of whether the intervention should target parents, children, or both ... The
programs enrolled low-income families that were highly diverse in race–ethnicity; age ... expected
to find significant treatment effects on cognitive and language outcomes (Barnett, 1995 ...

Who reads to young children?: Identifying predictors of family reading activities

DJ Yarosz… - Reading Psychology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... WHO READS TO YOUNG CHILDREN?: IDENTIFYING PREDICTORS OF FAMILY READING
ACTIVITIES ... & Hausken, 1995) identifying “risk factors” for poor school- ing outcomes, as well ... and
colleagues (1994) noted that despite economic difficulties many low income fami- lies ...

[PDF] Multiple dimensions of family involvement and their relations to behavioral and learning competencies for urban, low-income children

J Fantuzzo, C McWayne… - School …, 2004 - eportfoliocathymendoza.pbworks. …
... Results revealed that Home-Based family involvement emerged as the strongest predictor
of child outcomes. ... However, few studies link parent in- volvement to preschool children's
outcomes for vulnerable groups, such as low-income children. ...

Potential roles of parental self-efficacy in parent and child adjustment: A review

TL Jones… - Clinical Psychology Review, 2005 - Elsevier
... a predictor of parenting in intervention programs (Spoth, Redmond, Haggerty, & Ward, 1995)
as well as a predictor of treatment outcomes (Hoza et ... parental limit setting and less harsh discipline
practices in a large study of ethnically diverse low-income parents of preschoolers ...

Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts

AC Huston, YE Chang… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002 - Elsevier
... Child care outcomes; 2.4. ... By contrast, at all income levels, maternal attitudes and beliefs are
important predictors of their decisions about ... purpose of these analyses was to understand
individual differences predicting child care decisions for low-income parents (primarily single ...

Getting dads involved: Predictors of father involvement in Early Head Start and with their children

LA Roggman, LK Boyce… - Infant Mental Health …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
... with the program and with their children—will translate into more positive child outcomes. ... Other
potential predictors included father characteristics such as age, education, work hours, and
residence ... these families still had poverty level incomes, partly because of low local wages ...

The effects of poverty on children

J Brooks-Gunn… - The future of children, 1997 - JSTOR
... that distinguish between the effects of long- and short-term poverty on emotional outcomes of
children ... One study of low birth weight five-year- olds using the IHDP data set found that ... Both found
persistent poverty to be a significant predictor of some behav- ioral problems.26,32 ...

Effects of early intervention on intellectual and academic achievement: a follow‐up study of children from lowincome families

FA Campbell… - Child development, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
... Evaluating the outcomes of the Abece- darian program along with those of other in- tervention ...
Or- leans, provided intervention from early in- fancy for children of low-income African American ...
All PGDG programs made extensive use of parents as intervcners with their own chil ...

Complexity of Father Involvement in LowIncome Mexican American Families*

S Coltrane, RD Parke… - Family Relations, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... Most studies show similar patterns of association between predictor and outcome variables
regardless of ... In the analysis that follows, we assume that predictor variables found to be ... Parental
educational levels were low, with mothers reporting slightly more years of education ...

Quality child care supports the achievement of low-income children: Direct and indirect pathways through caregiving and the home environment

K McCartney, E Dearing, BA Taylor… - Journal of Applied …, 2007 - Elsevier
... family factors, especially income, which is one of the strongest predictors of child ... variables may
bias estimates of the association between child care and child outcomes. ... Two recent studies with
low-income samples, for example, documented variations in the developmental ...

Congruence of mother and teacher educational expectations and low-income youth's academic competence.

AD Benner… - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
... of the magnitude and significance of relations among the exogenous (ie, predictors) and
endogenous (ie ... to examine mean- level differences in youth beliefs and academic outcomes
across adult expectations groups (ie, congruently high, congruently low, dissonant high ...

Parent report of reading to young children

AA Kuo, TM Franke, M Regalado… - Pediatrics, 2004 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... to the specific probes, children are categorized as being at high, moderate, low, or no ... regression
of all variables in each of the 4 domains with the outcome of daily ... This stepwise, hierarchical
method was also used to identify predictors of clinician counseling about reading at ...

Early Parent—Child Interactions and Early Literacy Development

BJ Dodici, DC Draper… - Topics in Early Childhood …, 2003 - tec.sagepub.com
... In addition, observed parent–child interactions were better predictors of early literacy skills than ...
of the parental behaviors that have been related to positive child outcomes (Barnard, 1997 ... Children
from low-income families are less likely to have conversations with adults and are ...

Are There Long‐Term Effects of Early Child Care?

J Belsky, DL Vandell, M Burchinal… - Child …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... with academic achievement are more pronounced among children growing up in low-income
households ... or sixth grade, that is, the most recent time of measurement for that outcome. When
the child-care predictors showed interactions with age, we estimated coefficients for that ...

Scores on the MacArthur Communicative Developement Inventory of children from low-and middle-income families

RI Arriaga, L Fenton, T Cronan… - Applied …, 1998 - Cambridge Univ Press
... One possibility is that lower income parents might underestimate their children's verbal abilities,
perhaps because they are less verbally interactive with them (Garcia Coll, 1990). If this is the
case, the strikingly lower scores for the low- income group may be, partly or largely, a ...

SHELL: Oral language and early literacy skills in kindergarten and first-grade children

CE Snow, PO Tabors, PA Nicholson… - Journal of Research in …, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
... Study ofLanguage and Literacy Development, a longitudinal project that is collecting interview,
interactional, and outcome data on low-income children from age ... They share positive views
ofliteracy, derived from experiences of reading books with parents, of being read to ...

Understanding the impact of parent school involvement on children's educational outcomes

GL Zellman… - The Journal of Educational …, 1998 - Heldref Publications
... and children are asked the same question, average correlation coefficients were low between
mother ... ing constructs, and level of reported parental involvement at school to child outcomes,
defined here ... Table 4.-Demographic Predictors of Parent School Involvement (n = 149) ...

Reading, rhymes, and routines: American parents and their young children

PR Britto, AS Fuligni… - … parents with young children, 2002 - books.google.com
... negative association between parental depression and child academic and school achievement
outcomes is well ... 0.89 Hispanic 0.50*** 0.33 0.75 High income 1.05 0.69 1.6 l Low income 1.19
0.79 ... found that attendance at parenting classes is not a significant predictor of daily ...

Linking parent involvement with student achievement: Do race and income matter?

L Desimone - The Journal of Educational Research, 1999 - Heldref Publications
... Locus ofcontrol is the extent to which one believes that the outcomes in one's life are the ... Locus
of con- trol has been shown to be a strong predictor of both chil- dren's ... Whites, Blacks, Hispanics,
and middle- and high-income students than for Asians and low-income students; (b ...

Long-term effects of preschool teachers' book readings on low-income children's vocabulary and story comprehension

DK Dickinson… - Reading Research Quarterly, 1994 - JSTOR
... We then combined conceptually related but low-frequency coding categories by adding them
together; for example, we ... groupings, we conducted one-way analyses of variance with each
interactional variable as outcome and group membership as predictor (Table 3 ...

The effect of format modifications and reading comprehension on recall of informed consent information by low-income parents: a comparison of print, video, and …

FA Campbell, BD Goldman, ML Boccia… - Patient Education and …, 2004 - Elsevier
... The outcomes of particular interest were how well the information was comprehended, as
measured ... First, as parents of young children, they would likely appreciate the seriousness of ...
Second, because Head Start is restricted to children from low-income families, this population ...

Socioeconomic status, parental investments, and the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of low-income children from immigrant and native households

RS Mistry, JC Biesanz, N Chien, C Howes… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... Such conditions place low-income children in immigrant households at additional developmental
risk. ... of SES (education and occupation) on parenting and child outcomes found maternal education
to be the most robust sociodemographic predictor of mother and infant ...

Putting parents in the picture: Maternal reports of preschoolers' literacy as a predictor of early reading

DK Dickinson… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998 - Elsevier
... 254 Dickinson and DeTemple Table 7. Predicting First Grade Outcomes Using Maternal Preschool
Reports ... Although we have concentrated on early predictors of later literacy, significant changes
can ... well below the mean, and his emergent literacy score was also quite low. ...

Family involvement in children's and adolescents' schooling

JS Eccles… - … do they affect educational outcomes, 1996 - books.google.com
... by which these global social factors actually affect parent involvement and children's school
outcomes. ... The following teacher and school characteristics are likely to be important predictors
of the ... is especially striking about the communication findings is the absolute low levels of ...

Socioeconomic status and child development

RH Bradley… - Annual review of psychology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
... during childhood create vulnerabilities that result in adverse health outcomes in adulthood ...
Numerous studies have documented that poverty and low parental education are associated
with ... & Weinberg (1978) found maternal and paternal education to be equally good predictors. ...

[BOOK] Preventing reading difficulties in young children

CE Snow, MS Burns… - 1998 - books.google.com
... 87 4 Predictors of Success and Failure in Reading 100 xiii ... identifiable learning disabilities, need
radically different sorts of supports than children at low risk, although ... The association of poor
reading outcomes with poverty and minority status no doubt reflects the accumulated ...

Infant attachment security and maternal predictors of early behavior problems: A longitudinal study of low-income families

DS Shaw… - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1995 - Springer
... those infants with insecure attachments who showed maladjustment also were more likely to
have parents who showed ... the relationship between attachment security and be- havior problems
among children ffom low-income backgrounds. ... Predictors of Early Behavior Problems ...

Parental school involvement and children's academic achievement pragmatics and issues

NE Hill… - Current directions in psychological science, 2004 - cdp.sagepub.com
... confidence in their own intellectual abilities is the most salient predictor of their ... of parental school
involvement may tend to prejudge minority or low-income parents (Epstein & ... this decline, parental
school involvement remains associated with academic outcomes in adolescence ...

The effectiveness of the Parents as Teachers program with low-income parents and children

M Wagner, D Spiker… - Topics in Early Childhood Special …, 2002 - tec.sagepub.com
... TABLE 2. Outcomes for Parent Knowledge Items, by Income Level Very low income
More moderate income % Answered correctly % Answered correctly Participant Control
Participant Control KIDI item group group ES group group ES ...

Literacy promotion in primary care pediatrics: can we make a difference?

PC High, L LaGasse, S Becker, I Ahlgren… - Pediatrics, 2000 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... The health centers serve a low-income multiethnic population. ... in a hierarchical regression with
3 sets (first set 4 predictors, second and third sets, 1 predictor each) with R ... Proximal and Distal
to the Intervention at Follow-up and Change in These Literacy Outcomes as Compared ...

Parents' interactions with their first-grade children during storybook reading and relations with subsequent home reading activity and reading achievement

L Baker, K Mackler, S Sonnenschein… - Journal of school …, 2001 - Elsevier
... Childhood Project, that has been guided by the premise that the sociocultural context influences
parents' beliefs, values ... understand the well-established differences in reading activity and reading
achievement that exist between low- and middle-income children (Snow et al ...

Resilience and development: Contributions from the study of children who overcome adversity

AS Masten, KM Best… - Development and …, 1990 - Cambridge Univ Press
... socioeconomic sta- tus appeared to outweigh reproductive risks as a long-term predictor of
outcome. ... specific evidence of organic damage, which now appears to be a better predictor of
out ... defined by an unrefined status variable, such as premature birth or low income or marital ...

Home and family influences on motivations for reading

L Baker, D Scher… - Educational psychologist, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... that children's early literacy interest or motivation may be a more powerful predictor of literacy ...
tory data collected within the Early Childhood Project indi- cate that low-income children are more ...
reading have been linked not only to motivation but also to other reading outcomes. ...

Joint influence of child care and infant attachment security for cognitive and language outcomes of low-income toddlers

SJ Spieker, DC Nelson, A Petras, SN Jolley… - Infant Behavior and …, 2003 - Elsevier
... a meta-analysis of the distribution of attachment classifications of 586 low-income infants: 16.6 ...
attachment security and Second Year Child Care Status—and cognitive and language outcomes.
Thus, the following analyses use only the predictor of interest, ignoring covariates. ...

The Unique Contribution of Home Literacy Environment to Differences in Early Literacy Skills 1

EA Griffin… - Early Child Development and Care, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... After accounting for variance due to traditional theoretically relevant predictors, the home literacy ...
measure of the home literacy environment uniquely predicts literacy outcomes at school ... Book
reading styles of low-income mothers with preschoolers and children's later literacy ...

Measuring productive vocabulary of toddlers in low-income families: Concurrent and predictive validity of three sources of data

BA Pan, ML Rowe, E Spier… - Journal of Child …, 2004 - Cambridge Univ Press
... child vocabulary/language at age 2;0, as well as identifying predictors of children's ... productive
vocabulary at age 3:0, receptive vocabulary was the outcome measure of ... it offered com- parability
with ongoing large-scale studies to assess low-income children's school readiness ...

Parent-child book reading as an intervention technique for young children with language delays

PS Dale, C Crain-Thoreson… - Topics in Early …, 1996 - tec.sagepub.com
... Interpretation of the positive outcomes that are obtained is limited by the general absence of ...
measure of parent-child engagement during book reading was a sig- nificant predictor of
vocabulary ... 1994) demonstrated the effectiveness of this training with low-income parents in the ...

A structural model of first-grade outcomes for an urban, low socioeconomic status, minority population.

AJ Reynolds - Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989 - psycnet.apa.org
... other two outcomes, because of the inclusion of both READ-K and MATH-K as predictors. ... suggest
the critical importance of kin- dergarten readiness for future school success among low- income
children. ... Motivation is a particularly strong link for all three outcomes in three ways. ...

Effects of maternal employment and child-care arrangements on preschoolers' cognitive and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from the Children of the National …

N Baydar… - Developmental Psychology; …, 1991 - psycnet.apa.org
... questions investigated whether the types of child-care arrangements influence child outcomes
over and ... paid care that is affordable for families in poverty is likely to be low. ... Blacks and Whites,
the standardized beta weights of often-used sociodemographic predictors are different ...

Depressive symptoms in parents of children under age 3: Sociodemographic predictors, current correlates, and associated parenting behaviors

K Lyons-Ruth, R Wolfe, A Lyubchik… - … with young children, 2002 - books.google.com
... Child outcomes seem to be more strongly related to the chronicity of maternal ... mothers indicate
that birth order adds to the effect of low education on ... Sociodemographic Factors, Prebirth Events,
and Current Circumstances Sociodemographic and prebirth predictors and current ...

Predictors of academic achievement among homeless and low-income housed children

JC Buckner, EL Bassuk… - Journal of School Psychology, 2001 - Elsevier
... Looking specifically at school mobility as a predictor of academic outcomes, researchers have ...
school mobility and academic achievement independent of housing status and other predictors. ...
Low-income housed school-age children were 41% Puerto Rican, 36% non-Latino ...

Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories

MR Burchinal, E Peisner-Feinberg, R Pianta… - Journal of School …, 2002 - Elsevier
... The closeness scale was used in the present study as a primary predictor of interest. ... scale
assesses the degree of warmth, positive emotions, and open communication between child and
teacher (α=.82) and can range from 1 (very low) to 5 ... Children's developmental outcomes. ...

Estimating the risk of future reading difficulties in kindergarten children: A research-based model and its clinical implementation

HW Catts, ME Fey, X Zhang… - Language, Speech, and Hearing …, 2001 - ASHA
... studies have shown that it is possible to make good predictions of the reading outcomes for
individual ... In the epidemiologic study, these measures were used to identify children with low
nonverbal IQ ... & Risley, 1995) and consequently was of interest to us as a predictor variable. ...

Longitudinal prediction of child outcomes from differing measures of parenting in a low-income sample.

MJ Zaslow, NS Weinfield, M Gallagher… - Developmental …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
... Parenting, assessed through many methodologies, is a consistent, yet often modest, predictor
of children's outcomes (Borkowski ... issues in the relation be- tween parenting during the preschool
years and child outcomes during middle childhood in a low-income sample. ...

Predictors of reading skill development in children with early cochlear implantation

AE Geers - Ear and hearing, 2003 - journals.lww.com
... Predictors of Reading Skill Development in Children with Early Cochlear Implantation. ... The
frequently reported low literacy levels among students with severe-profound hearing impairment ...
indicate that the improved auditory skills may be associated with better reading outcomes. ...

from Low-Income Families

DK Dickinson… - Handbook of early literacy …, 2003 - books.google.com
... on children's development and a modest impact for language and literacy outcomes in particular. ...
professional development; use of books in community child care serving low-income children
is likely ... lected in the first grade revealed that the best classroom predictor of children's ...

The effect of income on child development

DM Blau - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999 - MIT Press
... provided by the NLSY are appropriate if the entire sample is being used, but not if the low-income
white oversample is ... the mother's original 1979 sampling weight and found that weighting reduces
the magnitude of the estimated income effects for most of the outcomes, by an ...

Family poverty, welfare reform, and child development

GJ Duncan… - Child development, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... depres- sive disorder, drug dependence, and maternal health were strong predictors of working ...
behavior because there appears to be little evi- dence that outcomes in these ... The pathways
through which low income influ- ences children also suggest some recommendations. ...

Predictors of variation in maternal talk to children: A longitudinal study of low-income families

ML Rowe, BA Pan… - Parenting: Science and Practice, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
... LOW INCOME MOTHERS' TALK TO CHILDREN 293 ... of the multilevel model for change (lev-
el–2) used the initial status and growth parameters from the within-person (level–1) models as
outcomes, and enabled us to ... We then used our predictors to try and explain some of this ...

The promotive effects of family educational involvement for low-income children's literacy

E Dearing, K McCartney, HB Weiss… - Journal of School …, 2004 - Elsevier
... View Within Article. School context. Children attended 91 different schools that were, on average,
low income and ethnically diverse. ... Furthermore, maternal education and school context were
marginally significant predictors of both outcomes such that children with more ...

Cognitive and educational outcome of very‐low‐birthweight children in early adolescence

N Botting, A Powls, RWI Cooke… - … Medicine & Child …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
... Multiple regression analyses were used to identify predictors of cognitive and educational outcome. ...
I1;iIl and colleagues (1995) reported that 15% ofextremely low-birthweight children in their total ...
Cognitive and tducational Outcome in VLB\V Children Sicoln hrtitig cr a/. 655 ...

Reading ability of parents compared with reading level of pediatric patient education materials

TC Davis, EJ Mayeaux, D Fredrickson… - Pediatrics, 1994 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... and pre- scniption labels if they are to adequately care for their children or give informed consent.
Yet little attention has been paid to parent literacy. Pediatricians rarely screen the parents of their
patients for reading abifity. Previous studie&3 have found low reading levels ...

Children's acquisition of early literacy skills: Examining family contributions

KK Bennett, DJ Weigel… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002 - Elsevier
... Werner and Smith (1992) found that literacy was one of the strongest predictors of children's ... Baker,
Scher, & Mackler, 1997; Bus, 1994 and [Morrow, 1983] ), in both low- and middle ... frequency of
joint book reading, had a positive effect on child literacy and language outcomes. ...

The role of family and home in the literacy development of children from lowincome backgrounds

SA Storch… - New directions for child and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... out), and print knowledge (inside-out) are among the strongest preschool predictors of later ... the
effects of one home vari- able, shared book reading, on literacy and language outcomes. ... findings
from the model hold powerful implications for children from low-income backgrounds ...

Family structure and children's behavioral and cognitive outcomes

MJ Carlson… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... diminish the magnitude of the family structure coefficients, indicating that family type effects on
cognitive outcomes do not ... Income was itself a strong predictor of children's reading ability ... In the
final model, being African American and having a low birth weight were negatively and ...

The formative role of home literacy experiences across the first three years of life in children from low-income families

ET Rodriguez, CS Tamis-LeMonda… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - Elsevier
... Even fewer target infants and toddlers from low-income families, despite the well-documented ...
association between the frequency of shared bookreading and positive child outcomes may reflect
a ... Predictors of literacy experiences and child language and cognitive development. ...

Individual and combined effects of postpartum depression in mothers and fathers on parenting behavior

JF Paulson, S Dauber… - Pediatrics, 2006 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... the research on the effects of paternal depression on child outcomes is limited ... Depressive
symptoms in parents of children under age 3: sociodemographic predictors, current correlates,
and ... Maternal depressive symptoms and infant health practices among low-income women. ...

The impact of childcare and parent–child interactions on school readiness and social skills development for low-income African American children

CM Connell… - Journal of school Psychology, 2002 - Elsevier
... development and research that suggests such influences may be critical for low-income children. ...
with improved performance on a number of readiness related outcomes including: (a ... and (c)
receptive communication skills development—a critical predictor of subsequent ...

Phonological awareness and early reading: A meta-analysis of experimental training studies.

AG Bus… - Journal of Educational Psychology, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
... 1996) even suggested that phonological awareness is the single strongest predictor of reading ...
more from a phonological awareness training than children who develop reading abilities in a ...
Meta-analysis allows for comparisons between the outcomes of different programs to ...

Parental efficacy: Predictor of parenting behavior and adolescent outcomes

L Shumow… - Parenting: Science and Practice, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Parental Efficacy: Predictor ... Elder, Eccles, Ardelt, and Lord (1995) associated low income with
low levels of parental self-efficacy. ... characteristics in the model also controlled for the
well-recognized influence of SES and neighborhood characteristics on adolescent outcomes. ...

Behavior problems in preschool children: A review of recent research

SB Campbell - Journal of child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
... such as anoxia, prematurity, low birth weight and other birth complications as predictors of later ...
more cognitive and behavior problems at age 2, but long-term outcomes were a ... These and other
studies of nonclinical groups suggest low to moderate relationships between ratings ...

The influence of home-based reading interactions on 5-year-olds' reading motivations and early literacy development

S Sonnenschein… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2002 - Elsevier
... the child to go beyond the immediate text, such as asking a child to predict outcomes or asking ...
thought to be important both as a consequence of reading experience as well as a predictor of
later ... All but 3 of the 20 children read to by their parents came from low income families. ...

Association of maternal obesity and depressive symptoms with television-viewing time in low-income preschool children

HL Burdette, RC Whitaker, RS Kahn… - Archives of Pediatrics …, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... Table 1. Descriptive Statistics of Predictors and Outcome. ... Table 2. Relationship of Predictor
Variables to Mean TV-Viewing Time and Percentage of Children in ... Our findings have potential
implications for the WIC Program given its extensive contact with low-income mothers and ...

Infant attachment strategies, infant mental lag, and maternal depressive symptoms: Predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems at age 7.

K Lyons-Ruth, M Easterbrooks… - Developmental …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
... Families originally were part of a study of 76 urban, low-income families seen in ... Univariate
associations between infancy predictors and child outcomes were examined first, followed by
analyses to evaluate the unique contributions of multiple univariate predictors and their ...

Demographic predictors of media use among infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

S Anand… - American Behavioral Scientist, 2005 - abs.sagepub.com
... A great deal of such work has examined the impact of televi- sion exposure on outcomes such
as violent behavior ... Low-income families are less likely to have the funds available to finance
entertainment outside of the home. ... Anand, Krosnick / DEMOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS 541 ...

Home environments and young Latino children's school readiness

JAM Farver, Y Xu, S Eppe… - Early Childhood Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
... Latino families, due to high housing costs in many US cities, low-income families are ... Risley (1995)
on the effects of crowded home environments and child outcomes reported that ... National Center
for Educational Statistics, 2000b), and are among the best predictors of children's ...

Predictors of academic motivation in first grade among children born to low-income adolescent mothers

T Luster, K Lekskul… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004 - Elsevier
... They were expecting their first children, were from low-income families (150% of the poverty
line or less), had not completed high school, and most (96%) were not married. ... Table 2.
Correlations among predictor variables and outcome variables. Variable, ...

A model of home learning environment and social risk factors in relation to children's emergent literacy and social outcomes

MA Foster, R Lambert, M Abbott-Shim… - Early Childhood …, 2005 - Elsevier
... and social support, served to mediate the mental health effects of being in risky social status
positions (ie, low SES, minority ... in partnership with three Head Start programs located in both
rural and urban regions of the Southeast to study predictors of positive child outcomes. ...

Risk and resilience in the urban neighborhood: Predictors of academic performance among low-income elementary school children

L Shumow, DL Vandell… - MERRILL PALMER QUARTERLY, 1999 - questia.com
... Risk and Resilience in the Urban Neighborhood: Predictors of Academic Performance ... This
variation permitted investigation of whether school outcomes were systematically associated
with ... study recognizes the diversity of family situations experienced by low-income children. ...

Lexical output as related to children's vocabulary acquisition: Effects of sophisticated exposure and support for meaning.

ZO Weizman… - Developmental Psychology, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... for the home visit at age 5 and for the child vocabulary outcome measures at ... The families were
all English speaking and were recruited from pro- grams serving low-income children. ... Data for
the predictor variables were collected during a home visit conducted when the children ...

A preliminary study of low-income African American fathers' play interactions with their preschool-age children

J Fagan - Journal of Black Psychology, 1996 - jbp.sagepub.com
... Variables (Positive Responsiveness, Developmental Appropriateness, Positive Control) as the
Outcome Measures Positive ... All other predictor variables were partialed out of the equation ... range
of factors that have been hypothesized to correlate with low-income African American ...

Early language and the development of children's reading skills

MD Poe, MR Burchinal… - Journal of School Psychology, 2004 - Elsevier
... listed in Table 1. About two-thirds of the sample was low-income, qualifying for ... first mediation
hypothesis, and was designed to demonstrate that the predictors (family and ... were related to the
mediators (language skills and phonological knowledge) and the outcome (reading). ...

Family predictors of maternal and paternal involvement in programs for young children with disabilities

S Gavidia‐Payne… - Child Development, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
... 702 Child Development Figure 1 Theoretical model for predictors of parental involvement of ...
Specifically, it was expected that low income and less parent education would be associated ...
Service providers' re- ports were used for the outcome measurement of parent involvement ...

Life with (or without) father: The benefits of living with two biological parents depend on the father's antisocial behavior

SR Jaffee, TE Moffitt, A Caspi… - Child development, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... Children's conduct problems are the strongest predictor of a range of adverse outcomes in
adolescence ... Our hypothesis was that fathers' antisocial behavior would moderate the effect of
father presence, such that when a father engaged in low levels of antisocial behavior, the ...

Emotional competence and early school adjustment: A study of preschoolers at risk

A Shields, S Dickstein, R Seifer… - Early Education and …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
... 49 children (22 boys and 27 girls) who attended a Head Start program for low-income children. ...
children evidence a wide range of adaptive versus maladaptive academic outcomes, these
children ... 1. Total family income 2. Per capita income 3. Families' socioeconomic index * 4 ...

The influence of family beliefs and practices on children's early reading development

S Sonnenschein, G Brody… - … engaged readers in …, 1996 - books.google.com
... to allow documentation of the relations between these home experiences and specific outcomes. ...
oral language as well as interaction with print appear to be predictors of literacy ... One line compares
middle-income European American families with low-income families from other ...

Digital childhood: electronic media and technology use among infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

EA Vandewater, VJ Rideout, EA Wartella… - …, 2007 - pediatricsdigest.mobi
... could be that the widespread perception that these factors are important predictors of children's ...
on the impact of electronic media on very young children's developmental outcomes. ... and television
in bedroom associated with overweight risk among low-income preschool children ...

Risk factors for delayed immunization in a random sample of 1163 children from Oregon and Washington

JK Bobo, JL Gale, PB Thapa… - Pediatrics, 1993 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... unmarried, low-income, or poorly educated mothers ... interviews,9 and reviews of school health
records completed at entry to kindergarten or first grade.1#{176}12 Coverage rate estimates for
completion of the 3:3:1 series by age 2 have ranged from a low of 40 ... All outcomes were ...

Participation in schooling: Determinants and learning outcomes in Nepal

T Jamison… - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1987 - JSTOR
... II. Background DETERMINANTS OF ADULT COGNITIVE COMPETENCIES There have been
numerous and diverse studies attempting to relate school outcomes to variations in the amount
or quality of school in- ? ... Shrestha found that low family income was the most ...

High Hopes but Even Higher Expectations: The Retreat from Marriage among LowIncome Couples

CM Gibson‐Davis, K Edin… - Journal of Marriage and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
... from social psychology is that current expectations are the best predictor of future ... resources are
becoming increasingly important in determining marriage outcomes (Sweeney, 2002). ... Previous
research has suggested that among low-income African Americans, this separation ...

Family selection of child‐care centers: the influence of household support, ethnicity, and parental practices

B Fuller, SD Holloway… - Child Development, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
... which mothers reported—frequency of going to the library, museum, and movies—showed low
interitem reli ... For each outcome measure, we initially created three hierarchical re- gression models. ...
model, we en- tered the covariates followed by the first block of predictors that are ...

Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The roles of ethnicity and family income.

NE Hill - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
... with the quality of their children's education are the only consistent predictors of academic ... learning
activities are more strongly related to improvement of reading than math ... Although low-income
parents are less involved in their children's schooling, African Americans, Hispanics ...

The role of family support in determining developmental outcomes in children of teen mothers

ML Cooley… - Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1991 - Springer
... which has demonstrated reliability and validity with disadvantaged and minority children2 ",56
It is a good predictor of early and middle school outcomes. ... Families with low income and who
were African- American, for instance, were likely to have no male partner and high ...

Risk, conflict, mothers' parenting, and children's adjustment in low-income, Mexican immigrant, and Mexican American families

LE Dumka, MW Roosa… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1997 - JSTOR
... greater variation in the risk status of families and the developmental outcomes of children ... and
socioeco- nomic status was controlled, generation was not a significant predictor of the ... This
procedure counteracted response bias due to low literacy levels and permitted respondents ...

Children's intellectual and emotional-behavioral adjustment at 4 years as a function of cocaine exposure, maternal characteristics, and environmental risk.

DS Bennett, M Bendersky… - Developmental Psychology, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
... pattern is consistent with prior research showing that current environmental factors are generally
better predictors of develop- mental outcomes than are ... perinatal medical problems (Adams et
al., 1994; Escalona, 1982; Werner, Bierman, & French, 1971), low birth weight ...

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