Early environment and cognitive competence: The Little Rock study

Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M.

doi:10.1080/0300443870270206

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“…In contrast, academic skills tended to be composed of a set of skills, each of which may develop in a graded pattern with a mastery of new skills, along with improvement of existing skills, and may be more directly relevant for learning through immediate and targeted stimulations (Entwisle & Alexander, 1990;Pungello, Kuperschmidt, Burchinal, & Patterson, 1996). This may explain current and previous findings of the significant impact of contemporaneous home environments on academic skills (e.g., Bradley & Caldwell, 1987;Evans, Shaw, & Bell, 2000;Storch & Whitehurst, 2001).…”

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The nature and impact of changes in home learning environment on development of language and academic skills in preschool children.

Son¹,

Morrison²

2010

Developmental Psychology

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101

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In this study, we examined changes in the early home learning environment as children approached school entry and whether these changes predicted the development of children's language and academic skills. Findings from a national sample of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,018) revealed an overall improvement in the home learning environment from 36 to 54 months of children's age, with 30.6% of parents of preschoolers displaying significant improvement in the home environment (i.e., changes greater than 1 SD) and with only 0.6% showing a decrease. More important, the degree of change uniquely contributed to the children's language but not to their academic skills. Home changes were more likely to be observed from mothers with more education and work hours and with fewer symptoms of depression.

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Section: Did the Home Learning Environmental Changes Uniquely Contrib...mentioning

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The nature and impact of changes in home learning environment on development of language and academic skills in preschool children.

Son¹,

Morrison²

2010

Developmental Psychology

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101

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“…A large number of items were included initially to represent a broad range of potentially salient aspects of housing quality for psychological health. Items came from a variety of sources, including existing housing quality indices (Kasl, Will, White, & Marcuse, 1982; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1990;Wilner et al, 1962), the child development literature (Bradley & Caldwell, 1987;Wachs & Gruen, 1982), and interviews with Cornell University Cooperative Extension Housing Specialists. Factor analysis and item-scaling techniques were used to build the final version of the scale.…”

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Housing quality and mental health.

Evans¹,

Wells²,

Chan³

et al. 2000

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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This study examined the potential link between housing quality and mental health. First, the development of a psychometrically sound, observer-based instrument to assess physical housing quality in ways conceptually relevant to psychological health is reported. Then 2 different studies, including a prospective longitudinal design, demonstrate that physical housing quality predicts mental health. Possible underlying psychosocial processes for the housing quality-psychological distress link are discussed.

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“…Parents with inadequate privacy may be less able or willing to socially engage their children. Both crowding (Bradley & Caldwell, 1987; Evans, Maxwell, & Hart, 1999) and noise (Wachs & Camli, 1991) are negatively associated with parental responsiveness to young children.…”

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Housing and Mental Health: A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique

Evans

Wells

Moch

2003

Journal of Social Issues

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Despite the fact that people invest more financial, temporal, and psychological resources in their homes than in any other material entity, research on housing and mental health is remarkably underdeveloped. We critically review existing research on housing and mental health, considering housing type (e.g., singlefamily detached versus multiple dwelling), floor level, and housing quality (e.g., structural damage). We then discuss methodological and conceptual shortcomings of this literature and provide a theoretical framework for future research on housing quality and mental health.

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Early environment and cognitive competence: The Little Rock study

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

The nature and impact of changes in home learning environment on development of language and academic skills in preschool children.

The nature and impact of changes in home learning environment on development of language and academic skills in preschool children.

Housing quality and mental health.

Housing and Mental Health: A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique

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