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Hentges, Rochelle F.; Madigan, Sheri; Tough, Suzanne; McDonald, Sheila; Graham, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The current study examined the interaction between maternal depressive symptoms and child temperament in predicting subsequent child language skills. Participants were 252 mother-child dyads recruited from the All Our Families longitudinal cohort, a primarily middle-class sample (62.9% completed postsecondary education) from Alberta, Canada (90.5%…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Language Acquisition
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Siegel, Linda S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Although both environmental and cognitive factors were found to predict language development, cognitive factors appear to be more significant in the early months and environmental factors become more significant later in development. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Foreign Countries