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EARLY PARENTING TRAJECTORIES AND CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ADOLESCENT AND ADULT MOTHERS Abstract by Leann E. Smith Parents are recognized as primary contributors to children’s well-being (Borkowski, Ramey, & Bristol-Power, 2002). In parenting research, measures of parenting at one point in time are typically utilized to predict children’s development. However, since parenting is a dynamic process, there is a good reason to investigate parenting behaviors from a longitudinal framework. The present study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate changes in parenting over the first 18 months of life and how parenting is related to child language development at 24 months of age. Cognitive readiness to parent and support from fathers acted as predictors of initial parenting practices and changes in parenting over time. Group differences in these relationships were evaluated for adolescents and adult mothers.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………… 1 Parenting and Language Development…………………………..……………… 2 Adolescent Parenting and Language Development……..………………………. 6 A Model of Adolescent Parenting………………………………………………. 10 Summing Up..……………………………………………………………………16 Present Study…………………………………………………………………….18 METHOD ……………………………………………………………………………… 23 Participants ……………………………………….…………………………….. 23 Design and Procedures …………………………………………………………. 24 Prenatal Measures………………………………………………………………. 26 Measures of Parenting…………………...……………………………………… 27 Measures of Child Language Development………..…………………………… 29 RESULTS ……………………………………………………………………………… 30 Descriptive Information ……………………………………………………….. 30 Overview of Latent Growth Curve Modeling ...…………………………………34 Measurement Invariance ……...…………………………………………………37 Growth Curve Models ………………………………………………………….. 42 Summary ……………………………………………………………..………… 55 DISCUSSION …………………………………………………………………………...56 Stability and Change in Parenting over Time ..………………………………….56 Predictors of Parenting …………………………………………………………..58 Parenting and Children’s Language Development …...…………………………59 Limitations and Future Directions ..……………………………………………..60 Conclusions………………………………………………………………….….. 62 REFERENCES ………………………………………………………………………….63 APPENDIX ……………………………………………………………………………...73 ii
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DISCUSSION The present study utiliz
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Predictors of Parenting Because pat
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in both adolescents and adults, and
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Bradley, R. H., Corwyn, R. F., Burc
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Pascoe, J. M., & French, J. (1990).
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