Marital Satisfaction, Family Emotional Expressiveness, Home Learning Environments, and Children's Emergent Literacy

The current study investigates associations among marital satisfaction, family emotional expressiveness, the home learning environment, and preschool-aged children's emergent literacy skills among 385 Midwestern mothers and their children. Path analyses examined how marital satisfaction related...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 2013-02, Vol.75 (1), p.42-55
Main Authors: Froyen, Laura C., Skibbe, Lori E., Bowles, Ryan P., Blow, Adrian J., Gerde, Hope K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Child Development
Child psychology
child school achievement/failure
Child. Socialization
Children
Cognitive Development
Critical path analysis
early childhood
Educational Environment
Emergent Literacy
Emotion
Emotional expression
Emotions
Families & family life
Family
Family Environments of Children and Adolescents
Grade 1
home environment
Homes
Language Acquisition
Literacy
Marital life
Marital Satisfaction
Mathematics Skills
Mothers
Outcomes of Education
parental investment/involvement
Parenting
Preschool Children
Satisfaction
satisfaction (marriage and close relationships)
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Skills
Sociology
Sociology of education. Educational systems. Lifelong education
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Studies
Young Children
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Summary:The current study investigates associations among marital satisfaction, family emotional expressiveness, the home learning environment, and preschool-aged children's emergent literacy skills among 385 Midwestern mothers and their children. Path analyses examined how marital satisfaction related to emotional expressiveness in the home and whether this path was associated with the home learning environment and children's literacy skills. Higher maternal satisfaction was associated with higher levels of positive and lower levels of negative family emotional expressiveness. Additionally, family emotional environments characterized by mothers with higher positive expression were related to better home learning environments, which in turn were associated with higher literacy skills in children. Study findings underscore the importance of marital and family processes when considering young children's academic development.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01035.x