Process praise effects persist after controlling for overall parent talk and SES, suggesting they are not proxies for general engagement¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Adding total parent utterances as a control left the indirect path from process praise through frameworks to achievement significant in both math and reading comprehension models. → Gunderson 2018

Evidence¶

Gunderson 2018¶

Gunderson, E. A., Sorhagen, N. S., Gripshover, S. J., Dweck, C. S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. (2018). Parent Praise to Toddlers Predicts Fourth Grade Academic Achievement via Children's Incremental Mindsets. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000444

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Robustness path analyses adding overall parent talk (utterance counts from the same 90-minute home observations) as a predictor of 2nd and 4th grade achievement. The indirect path "was significant for both math" and reading comprehension.

"Importantly the indirect path from process praise to motivational framework to 4th grade achievement was significant for both math (bias-corrected bootstrap CI95% = .03 to .35) and reading comprehension (bias-corrected bootstrap CI95% = 2.35 to 19.44)"

Discussion¶

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