ERIC Number: EJ1305482
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Early and Concurrent Home Stimulation: Unique and Indirect Links with Fine Motor Skills among 4-Year-Old Children in Rural Pakistan
Armstrong-Carter, Emma; Sulik, Michael J.; Siyal, Saima; Yousafzai, Aisha K.; Obradovic, Jelena
Developmental Psychology, v57 n6 p888-899 Jun 2021
Fine motor skills enable children to make precise and coordinated movements with their hands and support their ability to engage in everyday activities and learning experiences. In a longitudinal study of 1,058 4-year-old children in rural Pakistan (n = 488 girls), we examined how prior and concurrent levels of home stimulation relate to change in fine motor skills from ages 2 to 4 while controlling for family wealth, maternal education, number of siblings at birth, prior and concurrent measures of children's physical growth and food insecurity, and prior motor skills at age 2. Moreover, we tested whether the association between early home stimulation and subsequent fine motor skills was mediated by physical growth, food insecurity, motor skills at age 2, and concurrent home stimulation. Results revealed that home stimulation at 18 months was positively associated with change in fine motor skills from ages 2 to 4, over and above family socioeconomic resources. This association was mediated by physical growth, food insecurity and motor skills at age 2. In contrast to home stimulation at 18 months, home stimulation at age 4 was positively associated with concurrent motor skills at age 4 when controlling for all antecedent family factors, as well as prior and concurrent measures of physical growth and food insecurity, and prior motor skills at age 2. Findings suggest that the preschool period may be an important window of time when physically and cognitively stimulating experiences at home uniquely relate to variability in fine motor development.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychomotor Skills, Rural Areas, Family Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Educational Attainment, Mothers, Parent Background, Siblings, Family Structure, Physical Development, Hunger, Correlation, Stimulation, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Child Development, Body Height
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Home Observation for Measurement of Environment; Bayley Scales of Infant Development
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B090016