Parent Education Attainment and Parenting

Davis‐Kean, Pamela E.; Tang, Sandra; Waters, Nicholas E.

doi:10.4324/9780429401459-12

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“…First, we included two distinct indicators of SES-parent education and family income-to-needs ratio-as unique predictors in our analyses to disentangle their relative contributions to children's EF and achievement. Although correlated, parent education and household income each afford different resources that benefit children in unique ways (Davis-Kean et al, 2019;Duncan & Magnuson, 2012). Davis-Kean (2005), for example, demonstrated that while parent education and income are both related to the resources available in the home environment, parent education exerts a stronger influence on the expectations parents hold for their children's educational success and the behaviors they engage in to realize these ambitions.…”

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“…Although related, education and income reflect different resources that benefit children in unique ways (Duncan & Magnuson, 2012). Income, for example, provides families with the means to purchase high-quality resources, whereas education benefits children indirectly through nonmaterial investments, like cognitively enriching home environments (for a discussion, see Davis-Kean et al, 2019). This has led to a call for researchers to place less emphasis on investigating socioeconomic disparities in child outcomes broadly and instead focus on modeling the unique contribution and pathways through which different SES indicators shape children's development (Duncan & Magnuson, 2003).…”

Section: Socioeconomic Status and Executive Functionmentioning

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Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Early Academic Achievement: The Role of Specific Executive Functions

Waters¹,

Ahmed²,

Tang³

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Among the many factors contributing to the SES-achievement gap, executive function (EF) skills have received a considerable amount of attention, given their role in supporting academic skill development. While recent work has demonstrated that global EF constructs mediate SES-achievement relations, less attention has been paid to unpacking the role of specific EF components in linking SES to achievement. Data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,273) were analyzed to assess direct and indirect associations between SES indicators, preschool EF skills, and first-grade math and reading achievement. Using path analysis, we found parent education and working memory to be uniquely and most predictive of both achievement domains. Further, after controlling for baseline academic skills, verbal ability, and other child- and family-level covariates, only working memory mediated the association between parent education and children’s math achievement. These findings offer a comprehensive look at the specific mechanisms through which socioeconomic disadvantage contributes to children’s academic development and provide an initial step towards generating more precise targets for policies and interventions aimed at closing the achievement gap.

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Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Early Academic Achievement: The Role of Specific Executive Functions

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Tang³

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“…Oftentimes, the omnibus term socioeconomic status is used interchangeably with parent educational attainment and family income (occupation is rarely used in psychological studies; Davis-Kean et al, 2019). Although specific SES indicators do tend to be correlated, each reflects a different resource that benefits children in 993116C DPXXX10.…”

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“…As posited in the intergenerational-transfer-of-socioeconomic-resources model, associations between socioeconomic indicators and children's academic development operate indirectly through the beliefs and behaviors of the parent. We have suggested that parent educational attainment, relative to the other indicators of SES, has a unique role in that it affords parents the capacity to seek out, identify, synthesize, and evaluate information on child-rearing and their child's well-being (Davis-Kean et al, 2019). These skills are then used to construct beliefs about and expectations of what children need to be successful in school, which in turn produce parental behaviors such as book reading, talking, playing, and modeling positive interactions.…”

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The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development

Davis‐Kean

Tighe²,

Waters

2021

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children’s developmental outcomes. Variations in these resources predict large academic disparities among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persist over the years of schooling, perpetuating educational inequalities across generations. In this article, we provide an overview of a model that has guided our approach to studying these influences, focusing particularly on parent educational attainment. Parents’ educational attainment typically drives their occupations and income and is often used interchangeably with SES in research. We posit that parent educational attainment provides a foundation that supports children’s academic success indirectly through parents’ beliefs about and expectations for their children, as well as through the cognitive stimulation that parents provide in and outside of the home environment. We then expand this model to consider the intergenerational contributions and dynamic transactions within families that are important considerations for informing potential avenues for intervention.

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“…The Role of Parent Educational Attainment on Parenting and the Developing Child THE ROLE OF PARENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT parental beliefs and behaviors, whereas family income is more closely associated with the provision of material resources (Davis-Kean et al, 2019). Thus, some argue that SES indicators should not be combined and, instead, their influences be considered independently (Duncan & Magnuson, 2003).…”

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The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children's Development

Davis‐Kean¹,

Tighe²,

Waters³

2020

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Socioeconomic status (SES) – indexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income – is a powerful predictor of children’s developmental outcomes. Variations in these resources predict large academic disparities amongst children from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persist across schooling, perpetuating educational inequalities across generations. In this article, we overview a model that has guided our approach to studying these influences, with a particular focus on parent educational attainment. Parent educational attainment typically precedes the acquisition of occupation and income in the life course and is often used interchangeably with SES. We posit that parent educational attainment provides a foundation that supports children’s academic success indirectly through the beliefs and expectations that parents hold for their children, as well as the cognitive stimulation that parents provide in and outside of the home environment. We then expand this model to consider the intergenerational contributions and dynamic transactions within families that are important considerations for informing potential avenues for intervention.

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Parent Education Attainment and Parenting

Cited by 27 publications

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Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Early Academic Achievement: The Role of Specific Executive Functions

Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Early Academic Achievement: The Role of Specific Executive Functions

The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development

The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children's Development

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