The role of parental attitudes, home literacy environment, and migration background in preschool children's emergent literacy skills

IF 2.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101830

María Valcárcel Jiménez , Jörg-Henrik Heine , Tina Schiele , Anna Mues , Frank Niklas

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Abstract

Developing proficient literacy skills is important for school success. This study examined the link between parental attitudes towards reading and preschool children's emergent literacy skills in German, focusing on children with and without migration background. It explored whether the Home Literacy Environment (HLE) mediated this relation while controlling for child age, sex, cognitive skills, and family socioeconomic status. The study involved 500 children (M_age = 60.97 months) assessed three times across a year. The results showed that parental attitudes towards reading influenced emergent literacy skills only through the HLE. Migration background had an indirect effect, with the HLE mediating its impact on literacy development. These findings highlight the critical role of the HLE in fostering literacy skills, provide a plausible explanation for individual differences in German emergent literacy skills for children with and without migration background, and suggest that interventions targeting parental attitudes and HLE may effectively support literacy development.

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父母态度、家庭读写环境和移民背景在学龄前儿童突现读写技能中的作用

培养熟练的读写能力对学校的成功很重要。本研究考察了父母对阅读的态度与学龄前儿童的德语新兴读写技能之间的联系，重点关注有和没有移民背景的儿童。在控制儿童年龄、性别、认知技能和家庭社会经济地位的情况下，探讨家庭文化环境（HLE）是否介导了这种关系。这项研究涉及500名儿童（年龄= 60.97个月），每年对他们进行三次评估。结果表明，父母对阅读的态度仅通过HLE影响新兴读写技能。移民背景具有间接影响，HLE介导其对识字率发展的影响。这些发现强调了HLE在培养识字技能方面的关键作用，为有和没有移民背景的儿童在德国新兴识字技能方面的个体差异提供了一个合理的解释，并表明针对父母态度和HLE的干预措施可能有效地支持识字发展。

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Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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5.10

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3.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology focuses on two key concepts: human development, which refers to the psychological transformations and modifications that occur during the life cycle and influence an individual behavior within the social milieu; and application of knowledge, which is derived from investigating variables in the developmental process. Its contributions cover research that deals with traditional life span markets (age, social roles, biological status, environmental variables) and broadens the scopes of study to include variables that promote understanding of psychological processes and their onset and development within the life span. Most importantly.