TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Do maternal stress and home environment mediate the relation between early income‐to‐need and 54‐months attentional abilities?
JO  - Infant and child development
A1  - Dilworth‐Bart, Janean E.
A1  - Khurshid, Ayesha
A1  - Vandell, Deborah Lowe
SP  - 525
EP  - 552
VL  - 16
IS  - 5
N2  - Using Ecological Systems Theory and stage sequential modelling procedures for detecting mediation, this study examined how early developmental contexts impact preschoolers' performances on a measure of sustained attention and impulse control. Data from 1273 European-American and African-American participants in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care were used to identify the potential mediators of the relation between early household income-to-need (INR) and 54-month impulsivity and inattention. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to determine whether the relationships between early income, home environment, parenting stress, and the outcome variables differ for African-American versus European-American-American children. We found modest support for the study hypothesis that 36-month home environment quality mediated the INR/attention relationship. INR accounted for more home environment score variance and home environment accounted for more Impulsivity score variance for African-American children. Home environments were related to inattention in the European-American, but not African-American, group. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /> 
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SN  - 1522-7227
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.528
ID  - ref1
ER  -