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The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long-Term Academic Achievement
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Deer, LillyBelle K.; Hastings, Paul D.; Hostinar, Camelia E. – Child Development, 2020
This study utilized data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 14,860) to examine whether early-life family income (age 0-5) predicted long-term academic achievement (age 16-18) and to investigate the role of executive function (EF) assessed multiple times across age 7-11 in explaining this association. Task-based EF was a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Young Children
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attitudes in Chinese American Families: Interplay of Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation
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Shen, Yishan; Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie – Child Development, 2016
This longitudinal study examined the influence of parents' educational attitudes on adolescents' educational attitudes and identified antecedents (i.e., parent education, family income, and parent acculturation), consequences (i.e., academic achievement and engagement), and a potential moderator (i.e., adolescent acculturation) of the transmission…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Adolescents, Educational Attitudes
Longitudinal Relations of Intrusive Parenting and Effortful Control to Ego-Resiliency during Early Childhood
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Taylor, Zoe E.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Widaman, Keith F. – Child Development, 2013
Longitudinal relations among ego-resiliency (ER), effortful control (EC), and observed intrusive parenting were examined at 18, 30, and 42 months of age ("Ns" = 256, 230, and 210) using structural equation modeling. Intrusive parenting at 18 and 30 months negatively predicted EC a year later, over and above earlier levels. EC at…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Self Control, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
The Development of Interpersonal Aggression during Adolescence: The Importance of Parents, Siblings, and Family Economics
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Williams, Shannon Tierney; Conger, Katherine Jewsbury; Blozis, Shelley A. – Child Development, 2007
Latent growth curve modeling employed data from a longitudinal study of 451 sibling families to examine parents, siblings, and family economics as factors in individual differences in the developmental course of interpersonal aggression during adolescence. Findings suggest that individual change in interpersonal aggression during adolescence can…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Siblings, Aggression, Interpersonal Relationship
The Contribution of Neighborhood and Family Income to Developmental Test Scores over the First Three Years of Life.
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Klebanov, Pamela Kato; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; McCarton, Cecelia; McCormick, Marie C. – Child Development, 1998
Used a subsample from the Infant Health and Development Program to examine effects of neighborhood and family income and family risk factors on developmental test scores at ages 1 through 3. Family poverty was associated with lower scores at ages 2 and 3. Neighborhood affluence was associated with higher scores at age 3. Home environment was a…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Family Environment, Family Income
Early Warning Signs of Functional Illiteracy: Predictors in Childhood and Adolescence.
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Baydar, Nazli; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Used longitudinal data from a sample of African-American children of teenaged mothers in the Baltimore, Maryland, area to examine determinants of functional literacy in adulthood. Found that preschool cognitive and behavioral functioning predicted literacy in young adulthood. Family environmental factors that predicted literacy in young adulthood…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Blacks, Children