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Ella James-Brabham; Claudia C. Bastian; Carmel Brough; Emma Blakey – Child Development, 2025
Children's foundational mathematical skills are critical for future academic attainment. While home mathematical activities (HMAs) have been proposed to support these skills, the extent to which engaging in them supports mathematical skills remains unclear. This preregistered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis identified 351 effect…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics Skills
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S. V. Wass; C. S. Smith; F. U. Mirza; E. M. G. Greenwood; L. Goupil – Child Development, 2025
Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos)…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Family Environment, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship
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Yue Ma; Xinwu Zhang; Lucy Pappas; Andrew Rule; Yujuan Gao; Sarah-Eve Dill; Tianli Feng; Yue Zhang; Hong Wang; Flavio Cunha; Scott Rozelle – Child Development, 2024
In low- and middle-income countries, urbanization has spurred the expansion of peri-urban communities, or urban communities of formerly rural residents with low socioeconomic status. The growth of these communities offers researchers an opportunity to measure the associations between the level of urbanization and the home language environment…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Family Environment, Language Usage, Infants
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Sevim Nuraydin; Johannes Stricker; Michael Schneider – Child Development, 2024
The number line estimation task is frequently used to measure children's numerical magnitude understanding. It is unclear whether the resulting straight, horizontal, left-to-right-oriented estimate patterns indicate task constraints or children's intuitive number--space mapping. Three- to six-year-old children (N = 72, M[subscript age] = 4.89, 56%…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Mathematics Skills, Numeracy
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Wagley, Neelima; Marks, Rebecca A.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Kovelman, Ioulia – Child Development, 2022
This study examines the influence of language environment on language and reading skills and the cross-linguistic contributions to reading outcomes in 132 Spanish-English bilingual children ages 7-12 (52% female; 98% Hispanic). We present three major findings: children's language knowledge is separable into general (e.g., phonological awareness)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Environment, Children, English
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Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Gibson, Jenny Louise – Child Development, 2023
This large-scale and longitudinal study examines early home support for learning, formal/informal home mathematics activities, and their associations with children's mathematical development between age two and six. Data were collected in Germany between 2012 and 2018, N = 1184 (49% girls, 51% boys), and 15% of children had parents with a…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Education, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills
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James-Brabham, Ella; Loveridge, Toni; Sella, Francesco; Wakeling, Paul; Carroll, Daniel J.; Blakey, Emma – Child Development, 2023
Socioeconomic attainment gaps in mathematical ability are evident before children begin school, and widen over time. Little is known about why early attainment gaps emerge. Two cross-sectional correlational studies were conducted in 2018-2019 with socioeconomically diverse preschoolers, to explore four factors that might explain why attainment…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status, Preschool Children
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Davies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Martin, Meredith J.; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2021
This study examined whether childhood interparental conflict moderated the mediational pathway involving adolescent exposure to interparental conflict, their negative emotional reactivity to family conflict, and their psychological problems in a sample of 235 children (M[subscript age] = 6 years). Significant moderated-mediation findings indicated…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Conflict, Parent Influence, Child Development
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Wei Huang; Sabine Weinert; Anna Volodina – Child Development, 2024
This study explored whether the directionality of the relation between majority language and various facets of socioemotional development (three to 5 years old) differs between children with different language backgrounds. 12,951 children (49% girls; 85% White, 6% Pakistani and Bangladeshi, 3% Black, 3% Mix, 2% Indian) from the British Millennium…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Preschool Children
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Grøver, Vibeke; Rydland, Veslemøy; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Snow, Catherine E. – Child Development, 2020
This cluster-randomized controlled study examined dual language learners (DLLs) in Norway who received a book-based language intervention program. About 464 DLLs aged 3-5 years in 123 early childhood classrooms participated in the study. The children were acquiring Norwegian as their second language in preschool and spoke a variety of first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Story Reading, Second Language Instruction, Intervention
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Ren, Lixin; Chen, Jianbao; Li, Xuan; Wu, Huiping; Fan, Jieqiong; Li, Lin – Child Development, 2021
Organized extracurricular activities (EAs) are prevalent among Chinese preschoolers, yet their role in children's development is poorly understood. This study investigated the relations between EA participation and Chinese preschoolers' school readiness (N = 343; M[subscript age] = 55.14 months) among a predominantly middle-class sample. EA…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Middle Class, Extracurricular Activities, Child Development
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Camerota, Marie; Willoughby, Michael T. – Child Development, 2020
Little research has considered whether prenatal experience contributes to executive function (EF) development above and beyond postnatal experience. This study tests direct, mediated, and moderated associations between prenatal risk factors and preschool EF and IQ in a longitudinal sample of 1,292 children from the Family Life Project. A composite…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Risk, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
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Coley, Rebekah Levine; Sims, Jacqueline; Dearing, Eric; Spielvogel, Bryn – Child Development, 2018
Research has identified risks of both poverty and affluence for adolescents. This study sought to clarify associations between income and youth mental and behavioral health by delineating economic risks derived from family, neighborhood, and school contexts within a nationally representative sample of high school students (N = 13,179, average age…
Descriptors: Risk, Mental Health, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Casillas, Marisa; Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C. – Child Development, 2020
Daylong at-home audio recordings from 10 Tseltal Mayan children (0;2-3;0; Southern Mexico) were analyzed for how often children engaged in verbal interaction with others and whether their speech environment changed with age, time of day, household size, and number of speakers present. Children were infrequently directly spoken to, with most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Interaction, Speech Communication
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Sun, He; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Child Development, 2021
This study employs the Specificity Principle to examine the relative impacts of external (input quantity at home and at school, number of books and reading frequency at home, teachers' degree and experience, language usage, socioeconomic status) and internal factors (children's working memory, nonverbal intelligence, learning-related…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Bilingualism
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