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- Title
„Was für mich selbst gut ist, kann meinen Kindern nicht schaden.“ Der Einfluss der elterlichen Freizeitaktivitäten auf die Eltern-Kind-Aktivitäten.
- Authors
Biedinger, Nicole
- Abstract
Families differ strongly in how they deal with their children. These differences are often attributed to the socio-economic origin of the parents. Numerous studies have shown that the type and the availability of the stimuli in a child's home environment strongly influence the child's abilities. But how can the social differences in parent-child interactions be explained? It is argued that parents consciously or unconsciously want to maximize their child-related activities' utility. This maximization of utility is also visible in parents' own cultural leisure activities. Thus these should predict the extent of their interactions with their child in the home environment. This utility-theoretical approach is tested by using the data of the project "Preschool education and educational careers among migrant children". Employing linear regression models, it can be shown that the social differences are related primarily to the cultural leisure behaviour of the parents, rather than to the family's financial situation. Thus, the parents' own interests are reflected in their interaction within the home environment, which, in turn, has a direct effect upon their child's development.
- Subjects
SOCIAL conditions of children; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; CHILD psychology; REGRESSION analysis; PRESCHOOL education; HOME environment
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (ZzF), 2013, Vol 25, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
1437-2940
- Publication type
Article