Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children's Cognitive Development.

Autor/inn/en	Barg, Katherin; Klein, Markus
Titel	Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children's Cognitive Development. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufsspezifische Fähigkeiten von Müttern und kognitive Entwicklung von Kindern.
Quelle	In: Sociology, 58 (2023) 1, 22 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-8684
DOI	10.1177/00380385231159005
Schlagwörter	Fertigkeit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Problemlösen; Mutter; Fertigkeit; Geistige Arbeit; Großbritannien; Kind; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Lesen; Mathematik; Mutter; Sprache; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Berufliche Qualifikation; Problemlösen; Auswirkung; Schreiben; Körperliche Arbeit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Kind; Geistige Arbeit; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Lesen; Schreiben; Mathematik; Berufliche Qualifikation; Körperliche Arbeit; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Auswirkung; Manuelle Arbeit; Großbritannien
Abstract	"This article hypothesizes that maternal occupation-specific skills are associated with children's cognitive development over and above parents' other human, financial and social capital. Data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study on 13,543 children were complemented with occupation-level data (n = 79) from the British Skills Surveys on aggregate measures of mothers' occupation-specific skills (literacy, numeracy, problem-solving, verbal and physical). We did not find any association between maternal occupation-specific skills and children's non-verbal ability (inductive reasoning, spatial awareness) at age five when conditioning on covariates. However, mothers' verbal skills (e.g. presentation skills) were positively associated with children's verbal ability (Naming Vocabulary) over and above other parental resources. By contrast, mothers' physical skills (e.g. use of physical strength) were negatively associated with children's verbal abilities. Albeit effect sizes are small, maternal occupation-specific skills contribute to social stratification in children's verbal development net of human, financial and social capital." The study refers to the period 2001-2020. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1