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Relationship Between Family Size and Children's Cognitive Development: Investigating SES and Race as Possible Mediating Factors Presented: Washington, DC, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1997 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Keyword(s): Cognitive Development; Ethnic Studies; Family Income; Family Size; I.Q.; Income; Language Development; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Siblings; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The effect of family size on children's cognitive development was examined in a secondary analysis of three data sets; the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), the Collaborative Perinatal Project (CPP), and the Even Start Family Literacy Project (ESFLP). There was a significant interaction among family income, race, and family size in the prediction of children's cognitive outcomes; the relationship between family size and children's IQ or language development was stronger in families with lower and higher family income than in families with middle income levels. Further, white families showed a stronger negative relationship between family size and the children's cognitive development than African American or Latino families. Sharing of quality parent-child verbal interactions among siblings is proposed as a mechanism through which family size has its effects on the children's cognitive development. |
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Hiscott-Shultz, Margaret. "Relationship Between Family Size and Children's Cognitive Development: Investigating SES and Race as Possible Mediating Factors." Presented: Washington, DC, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 1997. |