The zero-to-two responsive stimulation intervention shows sustained impacts on social skills and behavior problems into the preschool period despite severe disadvantage¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Despite a highly disadvantaged sample, the authors report sustained impacts of the birth-to-two intervention on children's social skills and problem behaviors at age four, operating through improved home environment quality. → Finch 2016

Evidence¶

Finch 2016¶

Finch, J. E., Obradović, J., & Yousafzai, A. (2016). Home environment quality mediates the effects of an early intervention on children's social-emotional development in rural Pakistan. SREE Spring 2016 Conference abstract. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED567225

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Authors' conclusion from the path analysis of the PEDS follow-up (N = 1302; monthly household income averaging $100, 37% food insecurity, 68% of mothers illiterate). The intervention improved home environment quality at age two, which was "then linked to social skills and behavior problems via home environment quality at age four".

"Despite the disadvantaged nature of the sample, we found sustained impacts of a zero-to-two intervention on children's social skills and problem behaviors in the preschool period"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Social Awareness and Relationship Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Home environment quality mediates the intervention's effects on children's social-emotional outcomes at age four — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Home environment quality at age four predicts children's behavior problems and social skills — related
• The responsive stimulation intervention is directly associated with children's social skills but not behavior problems at age four — related
• A responsive stimulation intervention delivered from birth to age two is significantly associated with home environment quality at age two in rural Pakistan — related
• Social-emotional learning benefits persist at follow-up — a broader claim this one bears on
• Preschoolers' social skills are related to preliteracy, language, and mathematics development controlling for attention and aggression problems — related