Lynne Vernon?Feagans|Patricia Garrett?Peters|Michael T. Willoughby|W. Roger Mills?Koonce
Chaos, poverty, and parenting: Predictors of early language development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
studies shown distal family risk factors like poverty maternal education strongly related childrens early language development yet studies examined risk factors combination proximal daytoday experiences children might critical understanding variation early language young childrens exposure chronically chaotic household may one critical experience related poorer language beyond contribution ses demographic variables addition clear whether parenting might mediate relationship chaos language purpose study understand multiple indicators chaos childrens first three years life representative sample children living low wealth rural communities related child expressive receptive language 36 months factor analysis 10 chaos indicators five time periods suggested two factors named household disorganization instability results suggested accounting thirteen covariates like maternal education poverty one two chaos composites household disorganization accounted significant variance receptive expressive language parenting partially mediated relationship although household disorganization continued account unique variance predicting early language