The early home environment and developmental outcomes for young children in the child welfare system
The early home environment and developmental outcomes for young children in the child welfare system
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.04.009
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Whittaker, Jessica Vick
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作者：
Harden, Brenda Jones;Whittaker, Jessica Vick
早期家庭环境的质量可以预测幼儿随后的认知、学业和行为功能。有限的研究集中在早期照顾环境对参与儿童福利系统的幼儿的功能的影响上。本研究旨在探讨儿童在生命最初2年的家庭环境（即家中儿童人数、儿童经历的搬家次数、认知刺激水平和情感支持水平）对其学前发展结果（即认知、语言、社交技能和行为问题）的影响。正如预期的那样，高质量的早期家庭环境促进了从婴儿时期就进入儿童福利系统的学龄前儿童的福祉。与更多的孩子生活在一起的孩子在认知、语言、行为和社会方面的影响更大。安置的总数与发展结果之间没有显著的关联；在婴儿期呆在同一个家庭（通常是出生家庭）的孩子除了行为问题外，在各个领域的发展结果都更糟糕。家庭中的认知刺激和情感支持都预示着更高的认知和语言分数，减少行为问题，提高社交技能。早期的家庭外安置和缺乏情感支持相互作用，可以预测儿童的行为问题。这些发现是在现有的研究和政策的背景下考虑的，这些研究和政策与儿童福利制度中的幼儿有关。(C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
The quality of the early home environment is predictive of young children's subsequent cognitive, academic, and behavioral functioning. Limited research has focused on the effects of the early caregiving environment on the functioning of young children involved with the child welfare system. This study investigated the influence of children's home environments (i.e., number of children in the home, number of moves the child experienced, level of cognitive stimulation, and level of emotional support) during the first 2 years of life on their preschool developmental outcomes (i.e., cognition, language, social skills, and behavior problems).As anticipated, a high-quality early home environment promoted the well-being of preschool children who had entered the child welfare system as infants. Children who lived with greater numbers of children incurred more compromised cognitive, language, behavioral, and social outcomes. No significant associations emerged between the total number of placements and developmental outcomes; children who remained in the same home during infancy (typically the birth family home) had more compromised developmental outcomes in every domain except behavioral problems.Both cognitive stimulation and emotional support in the home predicted higher cognitive and language scores, decreased behavioral problems, and increased social skills. Early out-of-home placement and lack of emotional support interacted to predict children's behavioral problems. These findings are considered in the context of extant research and policy relevant to young children in the child welfare system. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.