Financial concern reduces child directed speech in a socioeconomically diverse sample.
Sci Rep
; 12(1): 9173, 2022 06 02.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35654989
ABSTRACT
Socioeconomic status predicts the quantity and nature of child-directed speech that parents produce. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. This study investigated whether the cognitive load imposed by resource scarcity suppresses parent talk by examining time-dependent variation in child-directed speech in a socioeconomically diverse sample. We predicted that child-directed speech would be lowest at the end of the month when Americans report the greatest financial strain. 166 parents and their 2.5 to 3-year-old children (80 female) participated in a picture-book activity; the number of utterances, word tokens, and word types used by parents were calculated. All three parent language measures were negatively correlated with the date of the month the activity took place, and this relationship did not vary with parental education. These findings suggest that above and beyond individual properties of parents, contextual factors such as financial concerns exert influence on how parents interact with their children.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Fala
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Família
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos