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Casey, Beth M.; Lombardi, Caitlin M.; Thomson, Dana; Nguyen, Hoa Nha; Paz, Melissa; Theriault, Cote A.; Dearing, Eric – Child Development, 2018
The primary goal in this study was to examine maternal support of numerical concepts at 36 months as predictors of math achievement at 4.5 and 6-7 years. Observational measures of mother-child interactions (n = 140) were used to examine type of support for numerical concepts. Maternal support that involved labeling the quantities of sets of…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Young Children
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Wang, Yiji; Dix, Theodore – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: This study examined whether social-cognitive processes in children mediate relations between mothers' depressive symptoms across the first 3 years and children's first-grade social competence. Three maladaptive cognitions were examined: self-perceived social inadequacy, hostile attribution, and aggressive response generation.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Elementary School Students
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Im-Bolter, Nancie; Zadeh, Zohreh Yaghoub; Ling, Daphne – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Studies have demonstrated the association between parenting style and children's academic achievement, but the specific mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. The development of skills that lay the foundation for academic success might be found in early parent-child interactions that foster language competence. Early negative…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes, Correlation, Academic Achievement