Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada; Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), 525 Wilfrid-Hamel Blvd, Québec, QC, G1M 2S8, Canada.
Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Pavillon Ferdinand-Vandry, 1050 avenue de la Médecine, Québec, QC, G1V0A6, Canada; Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), 525 Wilfrid-Hamel Blvd, Québec, QC, G1M 2S8, Canada.
Child Abuse Negl. 2020 Jun;104:104482. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104482. Epub 2020 May 4.
Exposure to neglect can severely compromise children's pragmatic skills (social language use). The disruptions of parent-child interactions that typically occur in context of neglect may compromise several parental behaviors which are known to foster language skills such as pragmatics.
1- Compare the behaviors of neglectful and non-neglectful parents in four domains which are of interest for pragmatic language development, namely, responsive, supportive, affective, and control behaviors, and 2- Identify parental behaviors associated with the levels of pragmatic ability of 42-month-old neglected children.
Study sample consisted of 21 neglected children living in their biological family, recruited in four Youth Centers in the province of Québec (Canada) and 95 non-neglected children recruited in child-care centers.
Parental behaviors were video recorded in context of free-play with the child at the participants' homes between 2015 and 2017, and subsequently analyzed using the Coding Observations of Parent-Child Interactions (COPI), developed to observe ten parental behaviors associated with early language development. The level of pragmatic ability of children was established using the Language Use Inventory: French, a standardized questionnaire completed with parents of both groups.
Parents in situation of neglect scored lower than parents in the control group on eight of the ten behaviors (p < .001). Parental reciprocity was associated with the level of pragmatic ability of 42-month-old neglected children (p = .04).
The results of this exploratory study provide insight on the associations between parental behaviors and the level of pragmatic language skills of children experiencing neglect.
忽视会严重损害儿童的语用技能（社交语言运用）。在忽视的情况下，亲子互动的中断可能会影响到几种已知能促进语言技能（如语用学）发展的父母行为。
研究样本包括 21 名生活在其亲生家庭中的被忽视儿童，他们是在魁北克省（加拿大）的四个青年中心招募的，95 名非被忽视儿童是在儿童保育中心招募的。
2015 年至 2017 年期间，在参与者家中的自由游戏情境中，通过视频记录父母行为，随后使用“亲子互动观察编码”（COPI）进行分析，该编码方法用于观察与早期语言发展相关的十种父母行为。使用“语言使用清单：法语”来确定儿童的语用能力水平，这是一份标准化问卷，由两组儿童的父母填写。
在十种行为中，有八种行为的忽视组父母得分低于对照组父母（p <.001）。父母的相互作用与 42 个月大被忽视儿童的语用能力水平相关（p =.04）。
这项探索性研究的结果提供了一些关于父母行为与经历忽视的儿童语用语言技能水平之间关联的见解。
