The home environments of children in the United States part I: Variations by age, ethnicity, and poverty status
The home environments of children in the United States part I: Variations by age, ethnicity, and poverty status
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.t01-1-00382
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Coll, CG
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作者：
Bradley, RH;Corwyn, RF;Coll, CG
虽然家庭环境的测量在儿童发展文献中得到了广泛的接受，但在美国，什么构成了“平均”或“典型”的家庭环境，以及这在种族群体和贫困状况中的差异是未知的。项目级数据从全国青年纵向调查的四个年龄相关的版本的家庭观察测量的环境简表（HOME-SF）从五个两年期的评估（1986-1994年）进行了分析的总样本和四个主要民族。欧洲裔美国人、亚裔美国人、非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人。所有四个版本的家庭-SF的每个项目上获得信贷的家庭的百分比进行了说明。对于所有四个年龄段的大多数项目，贫困家庭和非贫困家庭之间的差异被注意到。在非裔美国人、欧洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人家庭中也获得了差异，但贫困状况的影响程度大于种族，并且通常吸收了HOME-SF项目上的大部分种族群体影响。对于每个年龄段的每个项目，贫困的影响在欧洲裔美国人，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人群体中是成比例的。
Although measures of the home environment have gained wide acceptance in the child development literature, what constitutes the "average" or "typical" home environment in the United States, and how this differs across ethnic groups and poverty status is not known. Item-level data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth on four age-related versions of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF) from five biennial assessments (1986-1994) were analyzed for the total sample and for four major ethnic groups. European Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans. The percentages of homes receiving credit on each item of all four versions of the HOME-SF are described. For the majority of items at all four age levels differences between poor and nonpoor families were noted. Differences were also obtained among African American, European American, and Hispanic American families, but the magnitude of the effect for poverty status was greater than for ethnicity, and usually absorbed most of the ethnic group effects on HOME-SF items. For every item at every age, the effects of poverty were proportional across European American, African American, and Hispanic American groups.