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The Instructional And Emotional Quality Of Parent-Child Book Reading And Early Head Start Children’S Learning Outcomes, Keely D. Cline
The Instructional And Emotional Quality Of Parent-Child Book Reading And Early Head Start Children’S Learning Outcomes, Keely D. Cline
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The primary objective of this study was to understand how two dimensions of parent-child book-reading quality – instructional and emotional –interact and relate to learning in a sample of linguistically and culturally diverse, low-income children. Participants included 81 parents and their children who took part in home-based Early Head Start programs in rural counties in the Midwest. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to test two hypotheses: (1) the instructional and emotional qualities of parent behavior during shared book reading interact and relate to infants’ and toddlers’ cognitive scores (as measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development Second …