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Feeding Practices of Mothers from Varied Income and Racial/Ethnic Groups
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Worobey, John; Borrelli, Amanda; Espinosa, Carolina; Worobey, Harriet S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Objective: Relatively few investigators have explored the role of maternal control in describing the feeding behaviour of nonwhite parents of preschool-age children. The present study was conducted to examine if controlling feeding behaviours (i.e. restriction and pressuring) varied by income (middle vs. low) and race/ethnicity (white vs.…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mothers, Preschool Children, Questionnaires
"Talking like a Book?" Socioeconomic Differences of Maternal Conversational Styles in Co-Constructing Personal Narratives with Young Taiwanese Children
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Lai, Wen-Feng – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The study investigated how Taiwanese mothers with different socioeconomic statuses (SES) co-constructed personal experience with their children in narrative conversations. Forty dyads recruited in Taiwan participated in the study, half from middle-class families and half from the working-class. Narrative conversations in Mandarin Chinese were…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Speech Communication, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Sensorimotor Exploration of a Novel Object by Aboriginal and Caucasian Children.
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Catherwood, Di – Early Child Development and Care, 1988
Investigates the sensorimotor exploration of novel stimuli of 18 Aboriginal and 18 Caucasian Australian children of 4-6 years. Findings indicate that Aboriginal and Caucasian children displayed similar levels and patterns of visual and tactile exploration of a novel object, with Aboriginal children manipulating at a higher rate. (RJC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Exploratory Behavior