The Relationship between SES and Reading Comprehension in Chinese: A Mediation Model

Frontiers in Psychology

Yahua Cheng¹ 

关键词: socioeconomic status (SES);    reading comprehension;    vocabulary knowledge;    morphological awareness;    Chinese children;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00672

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

An increasing body of research provides evidence that socioeconomic status (SES) was significantly related to children’s reading development; however, the psychological mechanism underlying the association between them remained an open question. The present study is designed to test the hypothesized three-path effect of vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness as mediators between SES and sentence reading comprehension in Chinese first-graders. Results of mediation model showed that SES exerted its effect on sentence reading comprehension through the indirect path via the simple mediating effect of morphological awareness and the three-path mediating effect of vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness. The findings highlight a previously unidentified mechanism of the relationship between SES and reading comprehension in Chinese young children.

【 授权许可】

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