ERIC Number: EJ764619
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0256-8543
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Parent Socialization, Family Economic Well-Being, and Toddlers' Cognitive Development in Rural Paraguay
Austin, Ann M. Berghout; Blevins-Knabe, Belinda; de Aquino, Cyle Nielsen; de Burro, Elizabeth Urbieta; Park, Kyung-Eun; Bayley, Bruce; Christensen, Matthew; Leavitt, Spencer; Merrill, Junius; Taylor, Denise; George, Anne Thomas
Journal of Research in Childhood Education, v20 n4 p255-274 Sum 2006
This study examined the specific factors relative to healthy socialization and economic well-being that predicted toddler mental development in rural Paraguay. Thirty toddlers and their primary caregivers were assessed using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II (BSID-II), the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) to assess socialization, and a Family Resource Survey to assess economic well-being. As has been found in other studies, parent responsivity, parent support of child learning, and family economic well-being predicted BSID-II scores. Similar to results from other developing world samples, children's mental development scores decreased across the second year of life, a finding attributed to the parasitic load that many rural Paraguayan children carry, their family's lack of social capital, and inadequate parent-child socialization. The framework for the paper is centered on Amartya Sen's (1999) contention that family-, community-, and country-level well-being must be adequate to support healthy human development. (Contains 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parents, Socialization, Social Capital, Cognitive Development, Well Being, Family Income, Child Health, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Population, Latin Americans
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Paraguay
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Home Observation for Measurement of Environment; Bayley Scales of Infant Development
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