Maternal contingency is the only scaffolding variable related to child performance during scaffolding across all three time-points¶
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q2 i? In regressions at 12, 18 and 24 months, contingency significantly predicted concurrent child performance while propensity to scaffold and directiveness did not show consistent relationships. → Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019
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Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019¶
Dave Neale & David Whitebread. (2019). Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants: stability over time and relations with emerging effortful control. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-019-09196-6
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Three regression analyses (one per time-point) predicting child performance during scaffolding from the maternal scaffolding variables (Table 4). At 12 months contingency had β = .78*** with sr2 = .57; at 18 months β = .52; at 24 months β = .61**.
"The only scaffolding variable related to child performance across time-points was maternal contingency."
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Related Claims¶
- Maternal contingency during infant play is consistent across toys at 12 months but shows no consistency over time — related
- Maternal contingent interventions led to children's successful actions at 12 and 18 months but not at 24 months, while children's success led to contingent withdrawal of support at every time-point — related
- Children of consistently contingent mothers (30%+ contingent at all three time-points) scored higher on grasping, delay and cognitive measures than children of inconsistently contingent mothers — related
- Children with low initial effortful control showed rising trajectories to above the mean only when their mothers were consistently contingent — related
- Maternal contingency at 12 months predicts children's effortful control at 24 months, explaining 14% unique variance — related
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Maternal contingency is the only scaffolding variable related to child performance during scaffolding across all three time-points |
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Maternal contingency is the only scaffolding variable related to child performance during scaffolding across all three time-points |
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