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Title: Home Environment and Child's Cognitive and Emotional Developmental Delay: Evidence from the 1988 NLSY
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Agre, Lynn A. |
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Home Environment and Child's Cognitive and Emotional Developmental Delay: Evidence from the 1988 NLSY M.A. Thesis, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, 1995 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Child Development; Child Health; Children, School-Age; Cognitive Development; Disability; Fathers, Presence; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Inner-City; Modeling; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Objectives: The purpose of this research is to investigate the association between home environment and developmental delay in school-age children between the ages of 5 and 9, controlling for gender, socioeconomic status, and presence of father-figure at home. Methods: Development delay as a measure of child health status was defined using the developmental tests administered to the children of the 1988 NLSY. Those children below the 10th percentile of the Behavior Problems Index or the Peabody Individual Achievement Test subtests were considered developmentally delayed. Results: The bivariate relationship between developmental delay and poverty status, race, mother's education, the presence of the father and the home environment were investigated with chi-square test statistic and t-test statistic. Multivariate models included logistic regression to examine the effect of the home environment on developmental delay. Conclusions: While the typical profile of the children in the lower decile manifesting delay appears to concur with previously reported research, i.e. more children are poor than not poor, are black and live in urban environments, this research suggests that the home environment is a critical determinant of developmental delay. Presence or absence of father in household, poverty and mother's educational attainment may be considered contributing factors to the physical aspects of the home environment. |
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Agre, Lynn A. Home Environment and Child's Cognitive and Emotional Developmental Delay: Evidence from the 1988 NLSY. M.A. Thesis, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, 1995. |