Infants' abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status.

Autor: Reilly EB; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Stallworthy IC; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Mliner SB; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Troy MF; Children's Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA., Elison JT; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA., Gunnar MR; Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies [Infancy] 2021 Mar; Vol. 26 (2), pp. 204-222. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Dec 30.
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12380
Abstrakt: The influence of socioeconomic variability on language and cognitive development is present from toddlerhood to adolescence and calls for investigating its earliest manifestation. Response to joint attention (RJA) abilities constitute a foundational developmental milestone that are associated with future language, cognitive, and social skills. How aspects of the family home environment shape RJA skills is relatively unknown. We investigated associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) -both parent education and family percentage of the federal poverty level (FPL)- parent depressive and anxiety symptoms and infant RJA performance in a cross-sectional sample of 173 infants aged 8-18 months and their parents from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Results suggest that, correcting for age and receptive language, infants in families with greater economic resources respond to relatively less redundant, more sophisticated cues for joint attention. Although parent depressive and anxiety symptoms are negatively correlated with SES, parent depressive and anxiety symptoms were not associated with infant RJA. These findings provide evidence of SES-related differences in social cognitive development as early as infancy, calling on policymakers to address the inequities in the current socioeconomic landscape of the United States.
(© 2020 International Congress of Infant Studies.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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