scholarly journals The Interrelationships between Parental Migration, Home Environment, and Early Child Development in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 3862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingdong Zhong ◽  
Lena Kuhn ◽  
Tianyi Wang ◽  
Chengfang Liu ◽  
Renfu Luo
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Infant Development ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Early Child ◽  
Parental Migration

A growing body of literature is providing evidence of a negative association between parental migration and child development. Meanwhile, the chain of relationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child development has not yet been well documented in China. This paper investigates the interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child development in an undeveloped area of western rural China. In total, 444 households were included in the study. Bayley Scales of Infant Development version III (BSID-III), Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME), and a socioeconomic questionnaire, were used to measure children’s development outcomes, home environment, and socioeconomic characteristics in sample households. A mediation effect model was used to estimate the interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and child development. The results demonstrate that home environment works as a significant mediator, through which parental migration is associated with a 0.07 standard deviation (SD), 0.13 SD, 0.12 SD, and 0.10 SD decline in the child’s cognitive, language, motor, and social-emotional scores, respectively. For future studies, the key findings suggest that interventions aimed at improving the home environments of left-behind children might be necessary in rural China.

scholarly journals Home Environment and Early Development of Rural Children: Evidence from Guizhou Province in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 6121
Author(s):  
Lena Kuhn ◽  
Chengfang Liu ◽  
Tianyi Wang ◽  
Renfu Luo
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Infant Development ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Early Child

Delays in early child development are among the aspects underlying the persistent developmental gaps between regions and social strata. This study seeks to examine the relationship between the home environment and early child development in less-developed rural areas by drawing on data from 445 children from villages in Guizhou province in southwest China. A demographic questionnaire, the Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME), and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, version III (BSID-III), were used to measure the child’s demographic characteristics, home environment, and early development outcomes, respectively. Our data show that the sample children suffer a delay in various dimensions of child development and a deficit in the HOME scale. The results from a hierarchical regression model suggest that the availability of learning material at home, caregivers’ responsiveness and organization sub-scales are significantly positively correlated with the early development of sample children, after controlling for general socioeconomic status, health, and nutrition, and this correlation differs by gender. These results imply that the provision of learning material to households, promoting caregivers’ responsiveness and organization in less-developed rural areas could improve early child development among deprived children.

Parental migration and children's timely measles vaccination in rural China: a cross-sectional study

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 886-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianyan Tang ◽  
Alan Geater ◽  
Edward McNeil ◽  
Hongxia Zhou ◽  
Qiuyun Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Parental Migration ◽  
Measles Vaccination

scholarly journals Caregiver Depression and Early Child Development: A Mixed-Methods Study From Rural China

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ai Yue ◽  
Jiaqi Gao ◽  
Meredith Yang ◽  
Lena Swinnen ◽  
Alexis Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Early Child ◽  
Caregiver Depression

Assessing Home Environment for Early Child Development in Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanober Nadeem ◽  
Ghazala Rafique ◽  
Liaquat Khowaja ◽  
Anjum Yameen
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Early Child

scholarly journals Interrelationships of Parenting Information, Family Care, and Child Development: A Cross-Sectional Study in Rural China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (16) ◽  
pp. 5737
Author(s):  
Jingdong Zhong ◽  
Renfu Luo
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Development Outcomes

This paper studied the interrelationships between parenting information, family care, and early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. A total of 1787 sample households in rural China were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. A demographic questionnaire, a parenting information questionnaire, the Family Care Indicators (FCIs), and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development version III (BSID-III) were used to measure demographic characteristics, parenting information that the caregiver received, family care, and early development outcomes of the child, respectively. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was then used to estimate the interrelationships. The results showed that family care significantly mediated between parenting information and ECD outcomes. Through family care, one standard deviation (SD) increase in the parenting information was associated with the increase in the child’s four development outcomes (cognition, language, motor, and social–emotion) by 3%, 4%, 4%, and 5% of one SD, respectively. Different measurements of parenting information and different components of family care played different roles in the interrelationships. The key findings of this study are informative for providing early child development services in rural China.

Perceived Knowledge of Early Child Development Among New and Expecting Fathers

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Keefe ◽  
Sharnail D. Bazemore ◽  
Kate Farr ◽  
James F. Paulson
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Perceived Knowledge ◽  
Early Child
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