TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance
AU - Silver, Alex M.
AU - Swirbul, Mackenzie
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
AU - Cabrera, Natasha
AU - Libertus, Melissa E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (HRD1760844 to MEL, HRD1760643 to NC, and HRD 1761053 to CSTL). AMS was supported by the National Institutes of Health under grant T32GM081760 and MEL was supported by a Scholar Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. We thank Jessica Ferraro, Alexandra Mendelsohn, Jessica Damaris Marquez‐Membreno, Yu (Tina) Chen, Daniel D. Suh, Lillian Masek, Lucia Huerga, Sarah Riley, Kristy Lai, Milagros Urioste Resta and the research assistants in the Kids' Thinking Lab, Play and Language Lab and Family Involvement Lab. Finally, we especially thank the families who participated.
Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (HRD1760844 to MEL, HRD1760643 to NC, and HRD 1761053 to CSTL). AMS was supported by the National Institutes of Health under grant T32GM081760 and MEL was supported by a Scholar Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. We thank Jessica Ferraro, Alexandra Mendelsohn, Jessica Damaris Marquez-Membreno, Yu (Tina) Chen, Daniel D. Suh, Lillian Masek, Lucia Huerga, Sarah Riley, Kristy Lai, Milagros Urioste Resta and the research assistants in the Kids' Thinking Lab, Play and Language Lab and Family Involvement Lab. Finally, we especially thank the families who participated.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The British Psychological Society.
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - Early mathematics skills relate to later mathematics achievement and educational attainment, which in turn predict career choice, income, health and financial decision-making. Critically, large differences exist among children in early mathematics performance, with parental mathematics engagement being a key predictor. However, most prior work has examined mothers' mathematics engagement with their preschool- and school-aged children. In this Registered Report, we tested concurrent associations between mothers' and fathers' engagement in mathematics activities with their 2- to 3-year-old toddlers and children's mathematics performance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their engagement in mathematics activities, and both parents' mathematics engagement related to toddlers' mathematics skills. Fathers' mathematics engagement was associated with toddlers' number and mathematics language skills, but not their spatial skills. Mothers' mathematics engagement was only associated with toddlers' mathematics language skills. Critically, associations may be domain-specific, as parents' literacy engagement did not relate to measures of mathematics performance above their mathematics engagement. Mothers' and fathers' mathematics activities uniquely relate to toddlers' developing mathematics skills, and future work on the nuances of these associations is needed.
AB - Early mathematics skills relate to later mathematics achievement and educational attainment, which in turn predict career choice, income, health and financial decision-making. Critically, large differences exist among children in early mathematics performance, with parental mathematics engagement being a key predictor. However, most prior work has examined mothers' mathematics engagement with their preschool- and school-aged children. In this Registered Report, we tested concurrent associations between mothers' and fathers' engagement in mathematics activities with their 2- to 3-year-old toddlers and children's mathematics performance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their engagement in mathematics activities, and both parents' mathematics engagement related to toddlers' mathematics skills. Fathers' mathematics engagement was associated with toddlers' number and mathematics language skills, but not their spatial skills. Mothers' mathematics engagement was only associated with toddlers' mathematics language skills. Critically, associations may be domain-specific, as parents' literacy engagement did not relate to measures of mathematics performance above their mathematics engagement. Mothers' and fathers' mathematics activities uniquely relate to toddlers' developing mathematics skills, and future work on the nuances of these associations is needed.
KW - home literacy
KW - home numeracy
KW - mathematics language
KW - number knowledge
KW - spatial skills
KW - toddlers
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U2 - 10.1111/bjdp.12459
DO - 10.1111/bjdp.12459
M3 - Article
C2 - 37431921
AN - SCOPUS:85165102142
SN - 0261-510X
VL - 41
SP - 412
EP - 445
JO - British Journal of Developmental Psychology
JF - British Journal of Developmental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -