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Caregiving by low‐income adolescent mothers and the language abilities of their 30‐month‐old children
Author(s) -
Luster Tom,
Vandenbelt Marcia
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0355(199922)20:2<148::aid-imhj3>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - psychology , vocabulary , developmental psychology , peabody picture vocabulary test , test (biology) , low income , scale (ratio) , primary caregiver , linguistics , cognition , geography , psychiatry , paleontology , philosophy , cartography , socioeconomics , sociology , biology
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.