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Cognitive and socioemotional caregiving in developing countries

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Bornstein, Marc H, Putnick, Diane L·2012·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01673.xPMC PMC3270892
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Enriching caregiving practices foster the course and outcome of child development. This study examined 2 developmentally significant domains of positive caregiving—cognitive and socioemotional—in more than 127,000 families with under-5 year children from 28 developing countries. Mothers varied widely in cognitive and socioemotional caregiving and engaged in more socioemotional than cognitive activities. More than half of mothers played with their children and took them outside, but only a third or fewer read books and told stories to their children. The GDP of countries related to caregiving after controlling for life expectancy and education. The majority of mothers report that they do not leave their under-5s alone. Policy and intervention recommendations are elaborated.

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  • Families facing high adversity are less likely than more advantaged families to use a book-sharing style associated with positive language outcomes.

    “families experiencing high levels of adversity are less likely than more advantaged families to use a style of book-sharing associated with positive language outcomes (Berkule et al., 2007;Bornstein & Putnick, 2012;El Moussaoui & Braster, 2011;Van Kleeck, 1998).”

    From Shared Picture Book Reading Interventions for Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020) · cites this paper as Bornstein & Putnick, 2012

    The Results (Cognitive Caregiving: Deviation from the Grand Mean; page unavailable) report that mothers in low-HDI countries were less likely to read to their children than those in high-HDI countries. The Discussion (Implications for Policy; page unavailable) links more frequent reading with higher reported vocabulary. The paper measures whether reading occurred, not the style of book-sharing, so it does not establish that families facing adversity use a particular style less often. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Bornstein, M. H., & Putnick, D. L.
Affiliations
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (US)
Corresponding author
Bornstein, Marc H
ORCID
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2012-01-01
Volume
83
Issue
1
Pages
46-61
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01673.x
PMC
PMC3270892
OpenAlex
W1891627103
Cited by
274
References
91
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FWCI
12.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Z01HD001119)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
Keywords
caregiving practices, early childhood, mothers, reading to children, storytelling, gross domestic product, life expectancy, maternal education, child safety, developing countries
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Child Rearing, Child, Preschool, Cognition, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Data Collection, Developing Countries, Educational Status, Emotions, Female, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Male, Middle Aged, Mothers, Surveys and Questionnaires, Socialization, Socioeconomic Factors, Parenting, Young Adult

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