Poster Session 3: Poverty

Presenters: Jiwon Yoon, Robert Nix

Summary
The aim of this study is to better understand persistence in young children, age 2, living in poverty. This study examines relations among broad parenting style (e.g., authoritative control), more specific parenting behavior (e.g., scaffolding of learning), and children's persistence.Findings suggest that,when parents show higher levels of authoritative control and scaffolding, children exhibit higher levels of persistence. Interestingly, however, the interaction between authoritative control and scaffolding suggests that authoritative control is less important when scaffolding is high. This pattern of results highlights the importance of training specific parenting behaviors, such as scaffolding, as a means of best supporting the development of young children living in poverty.

Objectives
-- To better understand persistence in young children, age 2, living in poverty
-- To examine relations among broad parenting style, namely authoritative control; more specific parenting behavior, namely scaffolding of learning; and children's persistence
-- To investigate the interactive effects between parenting style and parenting behavior on persistence

Subject Codes: parenting, poverty, parent-child relationships
Population Codes: those in poverty
Method and Approach Codes: regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical)