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Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance
We compared the extent to which the long‐term influence of family socioeconomic status (SES) on children's school performance from age 7 through 16 years was mediated by their preschool verbal and nonverbal ability. In 661 British children, who completed 17 researcher‐administered ability tests...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13364 |
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author | von Stumm, Sophie Rimfeld, Kaili Dale, Philip S. Plomin, Robert |
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description | We compared the extent to which the long‐term influence of family socioeconomic status (SES) on children's school performance from age 7 through 16 years was mediated by their preschool verbal and nonverbal ability. In 661 British children, who completed 17 researcher‐administered ability tests at age 4.5 years, SES correlated more strongly with verbal than nonverbal ability (.39 vs. .26). Verbal ability mediated about half of the association between SES and school performance at age 7, while nonverbal ability accounted for a third of the link. Only SES, but not verbal or nonverbal ability, was associated with changes in school performance from age 7 to 16. We found that SES‐related differences in school performance are only partly transmitted through children's preschool verbal abilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-73175292020-06-29 Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance von Stumm, Sophie Rimfeld, Kaili Dale, Philip S. Plomin, Robert Child Dev Empirical Reports We compared the extent to which the long‐term influence of family socioeconomic status (SES) on children's school performance from age 7 through 16 years was mediated by their preschool verbal and nonverbal ability. In 661 British children, who completed 17 researcher‐administered ability tests at age 4.5 years, SES correlated more strongly with verbal than nonverbal ability (.39 vs. .26). Verbal ability mediated about half of the association between SES and school performance at age 7, while nonverbal ability accounted for a third of the link. Only SES, but not verbal or nonverbal ability, was associated with changes in school performance from age 7 to 16. We found that SES‐related differences in school performance are only partly transmitted through children's preschool verbal abilities. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-03-23 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7317529/ /pubmed/32207146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13364 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Reports von Stumm, Sophie Rimfeld, Kaili Dale, Philip S. Plomin, Robert Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title | Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title_full | Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title_fullStr | Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title_short | Preschool Verbal and Nonverbal Ability Mediate the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and School Performance |
title_sort | preschool verbal and nonverbal ability mediate the association between socioeconomic status and school performance |
topic | Empirical Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32207146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13364 |
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