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ERIC Number: EJ1389563
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Sep
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
EISSN: EISSN-1939-0599
"You Did a Great Job Building That!" Links between Parent-Child Prosocial Talk and Spatial Language
Hall, LaTreese V.; Rengel, Melanie; Bowley, Hannah; Alvarez-Vargas, Daniela; Abad, Carla; Overton, Dyamond; Pruden, Shannon M.
Developmental Psychology, v59 n9 p1676-1690 Sep 2023
We investigated the extent to which parents' prosocial talk and negations relate to the quantity and diversity of parents' spatial language production. We also examined similar associations among children. Participants included 51 children of ages 4-7 years and their parents recruited from South Florida. Most of the dyads included mothers and were Hispanic and bilingual. Dyads constructed a Lego house for 10 min. Sessions were transcribed and coded for instances of parent prosocial talk (praises, reflective statements, and behavior descriptions), child general positive statements (all positive contributions to the interaction), and parent and child negations (criticisms, corrections, and disapprovals) using the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System. Transcripts were also coded for quantity and diversity of spatial language including shape terms (e.g., "square"), dimensional adjectives (e.g., "little"), orientations (e.g., "turn"), locations (e.g., "middle"), and spatial features/properties (e.g., "edge"). Parents' prosocial language, but not negations, were significantly associated with the quantity and diversity of parents' spatial language. Children's general positive statements were significantly associated with children's spatial language quantity. Exploratory data analyses also revealed significant associations between parent-child talk about shapes, dimensions, and spatial features and properties. Findings suggest that variability in parent-child prosocial and spatial talk during collaborative spatial play relates to aspects of their own--and each other's--spatial language production.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) (DHHS/NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Florida
Grant or Contract Numbers: T34GM083688; DGE1038321