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Spieker, Susan J.; Bensley, Lillian – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Examined mother-infant teaching interactions, Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) scores, and infant attachment security in 197 adolescent mothers and their infants. Adolescent mothers who were living with neither their own mothers nor their partners had better teaching interactions but lower HOME scores than those…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Early Parenthood, Family Environment, Family Relationship
Lopez Larrosa, S.; Candau, X.; Novella, A. – 1998
This study investigated the relationship between mothers' ideas about personal values and educational principles and their provision of learning experiences, language stimulation, physical environment, pride, academic orientation, social maturity, and variety of experiences and acceptance for their preschool children. Subjects were 52…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
Bennett, Tess; And Others – 1986
Effects of family-oriented early intervention on the home environment were explored in a 6-month study of 23 handicapped children (ages birth to 5) and their families, who participated as members of an experimental or control group. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory was administered to evaluate differences in…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Family Counseling
Zill, Nicholas – 1992
Education professionals have long known that family background is a stronger predictor of academic success than are school or teacher characteristics. The past 30 years have seen a series of drastic alterations in patterns of family living in the United States, and these changes mean that a substantial number of youngsters are being born or are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Children, Disadvantaged Youth