失去了支持,失去了技能:祖父母去世后儿童的认知结果
Michelle Sarah Livings1, Emily Smith-Greenaway2, Rachel Margolis3
1Center for Research on Child & Family Wellbeing, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 286 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Social science research
|November 19, 2023
概括
五到九岁之间的祖父母死亡会对男孩的认知能力产生负面影响,特别是在黑人和西班牙裔男孩身上. 这凸显了早期生命丧失对儿童发育和教育成果的深刻影响.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
- 家庭社会学 家庭社会学
背景情况:
- 童年丧亲是一个重要的生命事件,具有潜在的长期后果.
- 了解祖父母死亡对认知发展的不同影响对于有针对性的支持至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查中儿童时期祖父母死亡与随后的认知技能之间的关联.
- 根据儿童的性别和种族/种族来探索这些影响的潜在差异.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自家庭未来和儿童福祉研究 (N=2479) 的数据.
- 采用普通最小平方回归模型来分析祖父母死亡与9岁时认知技能之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 5-9岁之间的祖父母死亡与9岁男孩的阅读,口语和数学成绩较低有关.
- 这些负面关联在黑人和西班牙裔男孩中最为明显.
- 在5岁之前祖父母的死亡对9岁男孩的认知能力的影响很小.
- 祖父母的死亡对女孩的认知能力几乎没有不利影响.
结论:
- 祖父母的死亡是一个重要的压力因素,导致家庭不稳定和儿童发展的不平等,特别是在男孩身上.
- 这些发现强调了需要认识到和解决早期生命损失对男孩学术发展轨迹的持久影响.
- 进一步的研究应该探索与丧失与认知结果联系的机制,并为受影响的儿童开发干预措施.
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