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- Title
Household Socioeconomic Status and Parental Investments: Direct and Indirect Relations With School Readiness in Ghana.
- Authors
Wolf, Sharon; McCoy, Dana Charles
- Abstract
This study examines how parent socioeconomic status (SES) directly and indirectly predicts children's school readiness through pathways of parental investment. Data come from direct assessments with preschool children and surveys with their primary caregivers in Ghana at the start of the 2015-2016 school year (N = 2,137; Mage = 5.2 years). Results revealed SES-related gaps in all parental investment characteristics and child school readiness skills. Preschool involvement served as the primary mediating mechanism in the path from SES to most school readiness skills, though it did not predict executive function. The number of books in the household was marginally positively predictive of early literacy, whereas at-home stimulation was negatively related to motor, literacy, and numeracy skills.
- Subjects
GHANA; SOCIAL status; READINESS for school research; PARENT participation in preschool education; HOUSEHOLDS &; economics; EMERGENT literacy; MOTOR ability in children; NUMERACY; EDUCATION; CHILD development; CHILD rearing; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PARENTING; RESEARCH; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL classes; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Child Development, 2019, Vol 90, Issue 1, p260
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12899