Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development

by Bornstein, Marc H.; Bradley, Robert H.; Corwyn, Robert F.; Ensminger, Margaret E.

• ISBN13: 9780805842425
• ISBN10: 080584242X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Developmentpresents cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development. The contributors represent an array of different disciplines, and approach the issues from a variety of perspectives. Accordingly, their "take" on how SES matters in the lives of children varies. This volume is divided into two parts. Part I concerns the constructs and measurement of SES and Part II discusses the functions and effects of SES. Each part presents four substantive chapters on the topic followed by an interpretive and constructively critical commentary. The chapters--considered as a whole--attest to the value of systematically examining the components of SES and how each flows through an array of specific parenting practices and resources both within and outside the home environment to help shape the course of child development. The result is a more fully delineated picture of how SES impacts the lives of children in the 21st century--a picture that contains a road map for the next generation of studies of SES and its role in the rapidly evolving ecology of family life.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Monographs in Parenting	ix
Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development: An Introduction	1	(12)
PART I. SES: MEASUREMENT AND ECOLOGY
A Decade of Measuring SES: What It Tells Us and Where to go From Here	13	(16)
Margaret E. Ensminger
Kate Fothergill
Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development: The Hollingshead Four-Factor Index of Social Status and the Socioeconomic Index of Occupations	29	(54)
Marc H. Bornstein
Chun-Shin Hahn
Joan T. D. Suwalsky
O. Maurice Haynes
Off With Hollingshead: Socioeconomic Resources, Parenting, and Child Development	83	(24)
Greg J. Duncan
Katherine A. Magnuson
Socioeconomic Resources, Parenting, Poverty, and Child Development Among Immigrant Families	107	(18)
Andrew J. Fuligni
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Methodological Issues in Studies of SES, Parenting, and Child Development	125	(20)
Lois Wladis Hoffman
PART II. SES: PARENTING AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Causes and Consequences of SES-Related Differences in Parent-to-Child Speech	145	(16)
Erika Hoff
Age and Ethnic Variations in Family Process Mediators of SES	161	(28)
Robert H. Bradley
Robert F. Corwyn
Socioeconomic Status in Children's Development and Family Environment: Infancy Through Adolescence	189	(20)
Allen W. Gottfried
Adele E. Gottfried
Kay Bathurst
Diana Wright Guerin
Makeba M. Parramore
Moving on Up: Neighborhood Effects on Children and Families	209	(22)
Tama Leventhal
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
What Are SES Effects Effects Of?: A Developmental Systems Perspective	231	(26)
Richard M. Lerner
About the Authors	257	(8)
Author Index	265	(12)
Subject Index	277