Merrimack College.
Boston University.
Child Dev. 2018 Jan;89(1):280-294. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12726. Epub 2017 Jan 27.
This study explored differences in caregiver-child interactions following children's information-seeking questions. Naturalistic speech from thirty-seven 4-year-olds and their caregivers was used to explore children's information-seeking questions, the caregiver's response, and children's subsequent follow-up. Half of the families were low-socioeconomic status (SES) and the other half were mid-SES. Although children across socioeconomic groups asked a similar proportion of questions, mid-SES caregivers offered significantly more explanatory responses to causal questions as well as more noncircular explanations than low-SES caregivers. No differences were found in children's follow-up to responses given to fact-based questions; however, after hearing unsatisfactory responses to causal questions, mid-SES children were significantly more likely to provide their own explanation. Such variability in caregiver-child interaction may have implications for subsequent learning.
本研究探讨了儿童提问后照料者与儿童互动的差异。本研究使用 37 名 4 岁儿童及其照料者的自然语言，探讨了儿童的提问、照料者的回应以及儿童随后的跟进。一半家庭的社会经济地位较低，另一半家庭的社会经济地位中等。尽管来自不同社会经济群体的儿童提出的问题比例相似，但中社会经济地位的照料者提供的因果问题解释性回应以及非循环解释明显多于低社会经济地位的照料者。在儿童对基于事实的问题的回应的后续跟进方面没有发现差异；然而，在听到对因果问题的不满意回应后，中社会经济地位的儿童更有可能提供自己的解释。这种照料者与儿童互动的差异可能对后续学习产生影响。
