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Title: Developmental Effects of Infant Care: The Mediating Role of Gender and Health
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Mott, Frank L. |
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Developmental Effects of Infant Care: The Mediating Role of Gender and Health Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 139-158. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb00292.x/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Plenum Publishing Corporation Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Care; Child Development; Child Health; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Gender Differences; General Assessment; Geographical Variation; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Household Structure; Maternal Employment; Memory for Location; Motor and Social Development (MSD); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) This research used the 1986 Merged Child-Mother Data File from the NLSY to explore how various forms of infant care in a child's first year were linked with scores at ages one-to-four on the Memory for Location, Motor and Social Development, and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test measures. The extent to which these linkings were mediated by an infant's health and gender was examined and important distinctions were noted. In particular, healthy infant girls received some cognitive advantage by being cared for extensively by caretakers other than their mother during infancy, whereas infant boys with health problems gained socioemotionally by spending more time with their mothers. More generally, it was concluded that usually, the average young child's ability to cope intellectually and socioemotionally (as measured on the above scales) is not affected in major ways either positively or negatively by the generic nature of his or her child care arrangement. |
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Mott, Frank L. "Developmental Effects of Infant Care: The Mediating Role of Gender and Health." Journal of Social Issues 47,2 (Summer 1991): 139-158.
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