School Readiness of 5 Year Old Children Living in Poverty The Role of Perceived Parenting

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2016-08-07

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Okur, Şükran
Kazak Berument, Sibel

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The current study investigated the mediating role of parenting in the relationship between poverty and school readiness. Participants were 5 year-old children and their mothers living in socioeconomically disadvantaged regions of Turkey (N = 184). The poverty variables included family income, parental education, material hardships including availability of materials and opportunities and food insecurity; and school readiness outcomes included receptive vocabulary, mathematic skills, and phonological awareness. Parenting quality of mothers was assessed via Early Childhood Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire through the reports of children. A factor analysis was conducted on the items of ECPARQ and it revealed a 3-factor structure: maternal warmth, hostility, and neglect. A path analysis using structural equation modeling was performed to test the hypotheses of the study. The results indicated that parental education positively, maternal hostility negatively predicted phonological awareness of children. Children’s receptive vocabulary was positively predicted by family income and maternal warmth, and negatively predicted by material hardships in the household. Moreover, parental education positively, but maternal hostility negatively predicted children's mathematic skills. Among the parenting dimensions, maternal warmth was negatively, maternal hostility was positively predicted by food insecurity in the household. The mediation analysis indicated that maternal hostility mediated the relation between food insecurity and phonological awareness, in addition to the relation between food insecurity and mathematic skills. The mediating role of maternal warmth in the relation between food insecurity and receptive language was not significant. The findings of the study will be discussed for further research, intervention programs, and social policies.

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http://media.wix.com/ugd/84c907_0ea08212c95041a6980a6b5e7aff9d45.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76030

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6th International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, (7 - 10 August 2016)

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Ş. Okur and S. Kazak Berument, “School Readiness of 5 Year Old Children Living in Poverty The Role of Perceived Parenting,” presented at the 6th International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection, (7 - 10 August 2016), Madrid; Spain, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://media.wix.com/ugd/84c907_0ea08212c95041a6980a6b5e7aff9d45.pdf.