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Cognitive and Socioemotional Caregiving in Developing Countries
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L. – Child Development, 2012
Enriching caregiving practices foster the course and outcome of child development. This study examined 2 developmentally significant domains of positive caregiving--cognitive and socioemotional--in more than 127,000 families with under-5 year children from 28 developing countries. Mothers varied widely in cognitive and socioemotional caregiving…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Care, Child Development, Developing Nations
Associations between Child Disabilities and Caregiver Discipline and Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Hendricks, Charlene; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Bornstein, Marc H. – Child Development, 2014
Using nationally representative samples of 45,964 two- to nine-year-old children and their primary caregivers in 17 developing countries, this study examined the relations between children's cognitive, language, sensory, and motor disabilities and caregivers' use of discipline and violence. Primary caregivers reported on their…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Discipline, Violence, Developing Nations
Systems and Cascades in Cognitive Development and Academic Achievement
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Wolke, Dieter – Child Development, 2013
A large-scale ("N" = 552) controlled multivariate prospective 14-year longitudinal study of a developmental cascade embedded in a developmental system showed that information-processing efficiency in infancy (4 months), general mental development in toddlerhood (18 months), behavior difficulties in early childhood (36 months),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
The Development of Object Categorization in Young Children: Hierarchical Inclusiveness, Age, Perceptual Attribute, and Group versus Individual Analyses
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Arterberry, Martha E. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Multiple levels of category inclusiveness in 4 object domains (animals, vehicles, fruit, and furniture) were examined using a sequential touching procedure and assessed in both individual and group analyses in eighty 12-, 18-, 24-, and 30-month-olds. The roles of stimulus discriminability and child motor development, fatigue, and actions were also…
Descriptors: Young Children, Classification, Motor Development, Cognitive Processes
Colour-Name versus Shape-Name Learning in Young Children.
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Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study designed to compare color-name with shape-name learning by three-year-old children in an experimentally controlled format. Results show that children learned color-label associates significantly more slowly than matched shape-label associates, and they committed more errors with colors than with shapes during learning. Provides a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Long-Term Cumulative Effects of Childcare on Children's Mental Development and Socioemotional Adjustment in a Non-Risk Sample: The Moderating Effects of Gender
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Gist, Nancy F.; Haynes, O. Maurice – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
We studied the long-term cumulative effects of two common indices of childcare--the total number of hours of non-maternal care and the mean hour-weighted child-to-caregiver ratio per caregiving situation--on mental development and socioemotional adjustment from birth to 4.5 years old in a non-risk middle-class sample of girls and boys after taking…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Socioeconomic Status