Dieter Wolke|Julia Jaekel|James Hall|Nicole Baumann
Effects of Sensitive Parenting on the Academic Resilience of Very Preterm and Very Low Birth Weight Adolescents
University of Warwick|Ruhr University Bochum|University of Warwick|University of Oxford|University of Warwick
although sensitive cognitively stimulating parenting powerful predictor school success may protect increased neonatal risk resulting underlying neurological damagea total 314 pretermvery low birth weight vpvlbw 338 term control children studied birth age 13 years socioeconomic status examined birth neurological physical impairment assessed age 20 months sensitive cognitively stimulating parenting age 6 years school success measured 6 13 years agevery pretermvery low birth weight children lower school success 6 13 years statistically controlling child disability socioeconomic status cognitively stimulating parenting promoted childrens school success whereas highly sensitive parenting age 6 years partly protected adverse effects vpvlbw birth academic outcomesvery pretermvery low birth weight childrens school success age 13 years may partly protected sensitive parenting middle childhood despite neurodevelopmental impairments associated vpvlbw birth suggests potential avenues interventions children born high neonatal risk