1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The current investigation was designed to examine the provision of cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged children from high-risk families.» (p. 105)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
80 familles

Instruments :
- Parenting Stress Index (Adibin,1990);
- The preschool version of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME; Caldwell & Bradley, 1984);
- Maternal Teaching Observation System (MTOS; Saltaris & Samaha, 1998);
- French translation of the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SB-IV; Thorndike, Hagan, & Sattler, 1986).

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«Participants were drawn from the Concordia Longitudinal Risk Project, a prospective, longitudinal investigation of individuals recruited in 1976–77 from lower SES neighbourhoods who were rated by childhood peers on standardised scales of aggression and social withdrawal. Based on a subsample of women followed from childhood to motherhood (N = 51), we found that childhood behaviour patterns, particularly a history of aggression, negatively predicted cognitive stimulation to preschool-aged offspring, in the context of (1) scaffolding during a tructured teaching task, and (2) the quality of the home environment provided for children. In the second part of the study, concurrent analyses focusing on children’s cognitive competence (N = 80) revealed that parental stimulation predicts the intellectual functioning of preschool-aged offspring within a community-based, high-risk sample. Taken together, the current findings provide evidence for the existence of a pathway of intergenerational transfer of risk operating through cognitive stimulation.» (p. 105)