Date: 2011
Type: Article
Parent-child cultivation and children’s cognitive and attitudinal outcomes from a longitudinal perspective
Child indicators research, 2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 413-437
PENSIERO, Nicola, Parent-child cultivation and children’s cognitive and attitudinal outcomes from a longitudinal perspective, Child indicators research, 2011, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 413-437
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This work adopts the concept of “concerted cultivation” (Lareau A. American Sociological Review 67(5), 747–776, 2002, 2003) to interpret how socioeconomic differentials in child rearing practices generate unequal children’s outcomes, distinguishing between children’s participation in organized leisure activities and children’s engagement in cognitively stimulating activities. Results show that it is the engagement in cognitively stimulating activities and not the participation in organized activities more generally that enhances children’s reading ability and the locus of control. Path analyses confirm that the selected dimensions of parent-child cultivation—parental expectations, direct stimulation, parental interactions with the school and children’s engagement in cognitively stimulating activities—mediate more than half of the socioeconomic gradient in children’s reading ability and the locus of control, even after controlling for the previous level of abilities. In addiction, the effect of parent-child cultivation is largely independent from and stronger than parental socioeconomic characteristics. The model is assessed on a large cohort sample (British Cohort Study 1970)
Additional information:
Published online: 8 February 2011
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62067
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/s12187-011-9106-6
ISSN: 1874-897X; 1874-8988
Publisher: Springer
Succeeding version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/24002
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