Pensiero, Nicola;
(2011)
Parent-child cultivation and children's cognitive and attitudinal outcomes from a longitudinal perspective.
Child Indicators Research
, 4
pp. 413-437.
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Abstract
This study adopts the concept of "concerted cultivation" (Lareau A. American Sociological Review 67(5), 747–776, 2002, 2003) to interpret how socioeconomic differentials in child rearing strategies generate unequal outcomes among children, distinguishing between children's participation in organized leisure activities and children's engagement in cognitively stimulating activities. Results show that it is the engagement in cognitively stimulating and reading activities and not the participation in organized activities more generally that enhances children's reading ability and the locus of control. Path analyses conducted on a large cohort sample (British Cohort Study 1970) confirm that the selected dimensions of parent-child cultivation - parental expectations, direct stimulation, parental interactions with the school and children's engagement in cognitively stimulating activities - mediate the socioeconomic gradient in children's reading ability and the locus of control, even after controlling for the previous level of abilities. In addition, the effect of parent-child cultivation is stronger than that of parental socioeconomic characteristics
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Parent-child cultivation and children's cognitive and attitudinal outcomes from a longitudinal perspective |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Concerted cultivation, Cultural capital, Child rearing, Parental expectations, Inequalities in child’s outcomes, BCS70, Learning and outcomes, Society, Social Sciences(all) |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10012175 |
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