Sources of child vocabulary competence: a multivariate model
Sources of child vocabulary competence: a multivariate model
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DOI：
10.1017/s0305000998003456
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发表时间：
1998-06-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Painter, KM
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作者：
Bornstein, MH;Haynes, MO;Painter, KM
本研究在多元发展生态模型的背景下探讨儿童词汇能力个体差异的来源。对126名1岁儿童进行社会人口特征、人格特征、词汇量、儿童性别、社会能力、词汇能力的同时评价；和他们的母亲。儿童词汇能力的测量包括自发言语、实验者评估和母亲报告。从近端到远端，母亲的测量包括词汇量、言语智力、个性、育儿态度、育儿知识和社会经济地位。结构方程模型支持几个直接独特的预测关系：儿童性别（女孩较高）和社会能力以及母亲的育儿态度预测儿童的词汇能力，母亲的词汇预测儿童的词汇理解和母亲报告的儿童词汇表达的两个测量。此外，母亲的词汇量、社会个性和儿童发展知识对儿童词汇能力有间接影响。社会经济地位、母亲言语智力和母亲育儿知识对母亲词汇本身有正向影响。儿童词汇能力的个体差异可能最好被理解为在儿童近端和远端环境因素的联系中产生的。
This study examines sources of individual variation in child vocabulary competence in the context of a multivariate developmental ecological model. Maternal sociodemographic characteristics, personological characteristics, and vocabulary, as well as child gender, social competence, and vocabulary competence were evaluated simultaneously in 126 children aged I;8 and their mothers. Measures of child vocabulary competence included two measures each of spontaneous speech, experimenter assessments, and maternal reports. Maternal measures, from proximal to distal, included vocabulary, verbal intelligence, personality, attitudes toward parenting, knowledge of parenting, and SES. Structural equation modelling supported several direct unique predictive relations: child gender (girls higher) and social competence as well as maternal attitudes toward parenting predicted child vocabulary competence, and mothers' vocabulary predicted child vocabulary comprehension and two measures of mother-reported child Vocabulary expression. In addition, children's vocabulary competence was influenced indirectly by mothers' vocabulary, social personality, and knowledge of child development. Maternal vocabulary itself was positively influenced by SES, maternal verbal intelligence, and mothers' knowledge about parenting. Individual variation in child vocabulary competence might best be understood as arising within a nexus of contextual factors both proximal and distal to the child.