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Transmitting Advantage: Maternal Education Differences in Parental Investment Activities
… family structure and race are held constant, educational variation in time spent with extended family and visiting others, mothers' daily expressions of warmth and affection, and awareness of children's whereabouts are generally negligible. Finally, individual parental investment measures only …
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The Relationships Between Sex, Poverty, and Maternal Education to Cognitive Development
… current study examined whether sex, poverty and maternal education are associated with infants' and toddlers' cognitive outcomes. Researchers generally agree on the negative effect of poverty on cognitive development; moreover, maternal education is one of the factors that influences poverty. …
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Sexual behaviors and contraceptive use of American adolescents: The role of religion, maternal education and school enrollment
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The impact of acculturation level and marital status on infant health and maternal education among California resident Hispanics
… level and marital status have an effect on maternal educational outcomes and infant health outcomes. Following Becerra and de Anda (1984) language preference is used as an approximation of acculturation level. With respect to marital status, two models are constructed. In Model 1, marital …
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The effects of early services on the relationship between children with behavior problems and low IQ and maternal education
… early services was greater for mothers with less education and their first grade children who had less than an 80 IQ and behavior problems. Previous research has focused on children with autism, behavior problems, and interventions, whereas this study did not include autism as a characteristic of …
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Examining Relationships in Head Start: Relations among Risk, Relationships, Child Characteristics, and Social and Academic Outcomes
… relationship quality moderates the effects of maternal education on children's social and academic competence, and b) examine the associations among child characteristics and teacher-child and teacher-parent relationship quality. Data were collected from 805 Head Start children, their parents, …
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Parental Time or Money: What Matters More for Children's School Success?
… children's academic outcomes by: 1) including maternal education and family income as predictors of parenting and children's academic skills, and 2) separating the home environment into parental investments of time and materials. Data are drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, …
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Access to Care Factors Connected to Age at Evaluation for Children Assessed for Autism Spectrum Disorders
… included sex, race/ethnicity, urbanicity, maternal education and severity of symptoms. This study analyzed 71 children ranging from 22 to 94 months as part of a database collected by the Autism Clinic at Children's Medical Center Dallas. We found that male children with higher Childhood …
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Dichos and Consejos, Ethnic Identity, and Emotion Socialization in Latina Mothers
… and behaviors. Further, I explored whether maternal education was associated with ethnic identity, interpretations of dichos/consejos, and emotion socialization. Forty Latina mothers of daughters aged 4 – 12 years participated by completing questionnaires on their demographics, ethnic …
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Determinants of voluntary or coerced sexual debut among Black African female adolescents in Soweto, South Africa: Findings from The Birth to Twenty Plus cohort study
… of similar age. Socio-economic status and maternal education were found to be significantly associated with coerced sexual debut. There is a need for interventions to delay sexual debut among young female adolescents from low socio-economic backgrounds and lower maternal education.
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Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start
… Start Program moderated the relationship between maternal depressive symptomology and child cognitive and social outcome. In addition, the mediating role of maternal social support was examined. The study sample included 43 low-income mothers and their pre-school aged children who were enrolled in …
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The Growth of Early Phonological and Lexical Development: A Longitudinal Investigation
… months were examined as a function of gender and maternal education. Significant differences were observed for all three of the outcome variables: number of different consonants, number of different words, and the percentage of vocalizations classified as lexical. Girls outperformed boys as did …
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Predictors of Early Onset of Sexual Intercourse in Male and Female Residents of the United States
… sexual intercourse for both males and females. Maternal education less than high school was a significant protective factor for female respondents [OR=0.72 (95%CI=0.58- 0.90)] and paternal education completed high school only [OR=1.4 (95% CI=l. 1-1.7)] was a significant risk factor for male …
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A interface da prática do aleitamento materno com a situação nutricional infantil
… behavioral factors, such as socioeconomic level, maternal education and eating habits. The results of studies found leads us to conclude that in addition to all the benefits have been studied and acknowledged breastfeeding, rece ives the addition of another, which is the protection against …
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An Examination of the Biopsychsocial Risk Factors for Cognitive Development of Children with Sickle Cell Disease
… revealed that the psychosocial variables, maternal education and income, moderated the relationship between SCD status and performance on syntactic language and applied math problems. Exploratory analyses revealed that family </p> <p>involvement moderated the relationship between SCD …
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The role of caregiver-reported emerging social attention in predicting duration of orienting and social communication
… and duration of orienting at 6 months. Maternal education was significantly negatively correlated with all caregiver report measures, and it contributed to a significant amount of variance in all models, particularly in reported communication at 6 months. Reported emerging social …
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Growth and determinants at two years of age in a South African birth cohort
… Higher birth weight, or length, higher maternal height or better maternal education were associated with lower odds of undernutrition or stunting at 2 years. Male sex, antenatal maternal smoking or prematurity were associated with increased odd of undernutrition or stunting. Higher birth …
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Pubertal development in white and coloured urban schoolgirls
… home environment (childminder, sibling number, maternal education) on onset of menarche and breast development. This data further contributes to a larger study on pubertal development of all representative ethnic groups and social classes in the Cape. Our hypothesis is that social class, and not …
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Maternal mental health, education, acculturation, and social support as predictors of the parenting of Asian American and Asian immigrant mothers
… the role of three potential protective factors--maternal education, acculturation, and social support--and one potential risk factor, maternal depressive symptoms, in predicting mothers' expectations for their children's academic achievement, involvement in children's home and school activities, …
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Determinants of maternal use of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and visit to a medical facility for diarrhea among under-five children in Nigeria: a secondary analysis of 2013 Nigerian demographic and health survey
… This study examines the influence of various maternal factors on the use of ORS and visiting medical facilities during under-five diarrhea episodes. Methods: Data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey was used for the study, specifically data from the women’s questionnaire. The study …
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