Artículo
Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Communication about Location
Fecha de publicación:
04/2018
Editorial:
Brill Academic Publishers
Revista:
Journal of Cognition and Culture
ISSN:
1568-5373
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
This study explored whether parental directions about location differ by socioeconomic status (SES) and whether children's performance is associated with parental spatial directions. We designed a task in which parents hid a toy in one of five identical boxes in a small-scale space, and then verbally guided their children's search. Middle-SES (MSES) parents employed more language in general than low-SES (LSES) parents. However, groups used the same amount of spatial terms, suggesting that providing effective spatial directions is probably a matter of quality than quantity. Parents differed in the use of frames of reference; with LSES parents scarcely using them, which resulted in ambiguous reference. MSES parents showed a higher rate of person frames of reference and proximity terms, and their children performed better in the task. Our results suggest that spatial communication including person frames of reference combined with proximity information might be an effective strategy to communicate location.
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Articulos de INST.ROSARIO DE INVEST.EN CS.DE LA EDUC. (I)
Articulos de INST.ROSARIO DE INVEST.EN CS.DE LA EDUC. (I)
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Maita, María del Rosario; Jauck, Daniela Eva; Donnelly, Seamus; Peralta, Olga Alicia; Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Communication about Location; Brill Academic Publishers; Journal of Cognition and Culture; 18; 3-4; 4-2018; 410-427
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