Home Learning Environments of Children in Mexico in Relation to Socioeconomic Status

Frontiers in Psychology

Chang Xu¹  Jo-Anne LeFevre²  María Inés Susperreguy³  Elia Verónica Benavides Pando⁴  Humberto Blanco Vega⁴  Carolina Jiménez Lira⁴  Martha Ornelas Contreras⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Faculty of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Faculty of Physical Culture Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico;

关键词: early numeracy;    home learning;    home numeracy;    children;    numeracy activities;    literacy activities;    Mexico;    socioeconomic status;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626159

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

We explored the home learning environments of 173 Mexican preschool children (aged 3–6 years) in relation to their numeracy performance. Parents indicated the frequency of their formal home numeracy and literacy activities, and their academic expectations for children’s numeracy and literacy performance. Children completed measures of early numeracy skills. Mexican parent–child dyads from families with either high- or low-socioeconomic status (SES) participated. Low-SES parents (n = 99) reported higher numeracy expectations than high-SES parents (n = 74), but similar frequency of home numeracy activities. In contrast, high-SES parents reported higher frequency of literacy activities. Path analyses showed that operational (i.e., advanced) numeracy activities were positively related to children’s numeracy skills in the high- but not in the low-SES group. These findings improve the understanding of the role of the home environment in different contexts and provide some insights into the sources of the variable patterns of relations between home learning activities and children’s numeracy outcomes. They also suggest that SES is a critical factor to consider in research on children’s home numeracy experiences.

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