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Early childrearing practices and their relationship to academic performance in Mexican American children

Amanda Arevalo1, Thubi H A Kolobe, Sandra Arnold

  • 1The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Pediatric Physical Therapy : the Official Publication of the Section on Pediatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association
|March 29, 2014
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Early Mexican American (MA) parenting practices, including developmental expectations and discipline, significantly predict children's school-age academic performance. Nurturing behaviors also correlate with better test results.

Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cultural Psychology

Background:

  • Parenting behaviors and childrearing practices are crucial during early development.
  • Understanding these factors in Mexican American (MA) families can inform targeted interventions.
  • Early childhood experiences significantly influence long-term academic outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the predictive relationship between early parenting behaviors and academic performance in school-aged children from Mexican American (MA) families.
  • To identify specific childrearing practices in the first 3 years of life that correlate with later academic success.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Parent Behavior Checklist, Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale, Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory, and Bayley Scales of Infant Development II for 36 children.
  • Assessed academic performance using the Illinois Standards Achievement Test in third grade.

Main Results:

  • Found statistically significant correlations (P < .05) between parents' developmental expectations, nurturing behaviors, discipline strategies, and children's academic performance.
  • Parents' developmental expectations and discipline strategies accounted for 30% of the variance in reading scores on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

Conclusions:

  • Early developmental expectations set by Mexican American (MA) parents are linked to their children's academic achievement.
  • Nurturing and discipline behaviors employed by MA parents in early childhood are associated with better academic test performance at school age.
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