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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (early + childhood_longitudinal_study)

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Humanities and Social Sciences83%

Selected Abstracts

Educational Progress and Parenting Among Mexican Immigrant Mothers of Young Children

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 4 2010
Robert Crosnoe
This study examined the potential for educational investments in Mexican immigrant mothers to enhance their management of their children's pathways through the educational system in the United States, which often disadvantages them. We tested this hypothesis with data on 816 Mexican immigrant women and their children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). The results suggest that mothers who pursued their own schooling over a 4-year period, regardless of whether they obtained a degree, increased their engagement with their children's schools during that same period. The results appear to be robust to a wide range of factors that select women into continuing education. [source]

Child, Parent, and Situational Correlates of Familial Ethnic/Race Socialization

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 1 2007
Tony N. Brown
This study examines child, parent, and situational correlates of familial ethnic/race socialization using nationally representative data gathered as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 , 1999 (ECLS-K). The ECLS-K sample (N = 18,950) includes White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial kindergarteners, with survey data available at the child, parent/guardian, teacher, and school level. We find that child correlates such as race and gender, parent correlates such as education and warmth of parent-child relationship, and situational correlates such as percent of minorities at the child's school and cultural event participation influence how often family members discuss children's ethnic/racial heritage with them. We advocate for continued research of contextualized family dynamics. [source]

Maternal Cohabitation and Child Well-Being Among Kindergarten Children

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 1 2007
Julie E. Artis
Using data collected from 10,511 kindergarten children and their parents from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,Kindergarten Cohort, this study examines child well-being across cohabiting 2-biological-parent families; cohabiting stepfamilies; married stepfamilies; and married 2-biological-parent families. Findings indicate no differences in child well-being for children living in cohabiting stepfamilies and cohabiting 2-biological-parent families. Multivariate models controlling for child characteristics, economic resources, maternal depressive symptoms, stability, and parenting practices show no significant differences across family types in child well-being indicators, with the exception of reading skills. Important factors in explaining the link between cohabitation and child well-being include economic resources, maternal depressive symptoms, and parenting practices. [source]

Small Samples, Big Challenges: Studying Atypical Family Forms

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 4 2005
Simon Cheng
We discuss the challenges of small-subsample sizes that family scholars often encounter when studying nontraditional or less common family types. We begin by identifying the general difficulties of using existing data in this line of research and then discuss potential solutions that may help researchers to avoid these problems. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, we use the example of monoracial White, monoracial Asian, and Asian/White interracial families to illustrate these problems and available, albeit imperfect, solutions. [source]

Mothers' citizenship status and household food insecurity among low-income children of immigrants

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, Issue 121 2008
Ariel Kalil
Recent data have shown that children of immigrant noncitizens experience more persistent and higher levels of food insecurity than the children of citizens following welfare reform. However, little is known about the range of factors that might explain different rates of food insecurity in the different populations. In this study, the authors used national data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study,Kindergarten cohort to assess this question, using multivariate probit regression analyses in a low-income sample. They found that households of children (foreign and U.S.-born) with noncitizen mothers are at substantially greater risk of food insecurity than their counterparts with citizen mothers and that demographic characteristics such as being Latina, levels of maternal education, and large household size explain about half of the difference in rates. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

The Limits of Genetic Influence: A Behavior-Genetic Analysis of Infant,Caregiver Relationship Quality and Temperament

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 6 2006
Glenn I. Roisman
This report presents data on 9-month-old twin pairs (nMZ=172; nDZ=333) from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, demonstrating that the role of genetic variation among infants is trivial and the shared and nonshared environment is substantial in accounting for the observed quality of infant,caregiver relationships. In contrast, maternal reports of temperament were best accounted for by genetic variation and nonshared environmental influences. Interestingly, however, shared environmental effects were documented for observations of temperament. Consistent with a growing database, the current study calls into question the ubiquity of heritability effects in all domains of psychological inquiry. It also bolsters consensus in the field of developmental psychology that shared environmental effects are not as elusive as had once been thought. [source]