Poster #61 - Trajectories of Parents' Socioeconomic Status, Child-Parent Interaction, Children's Self-Control, School Readiness, and Academic Performance

• In Event: 18.060 - MTCC Poster Session Two
  In Poster Session: 18.060-7 - Early Childhood Poster Session 1

Abstract

The importance of school readiness has been emerging as the school readiness gaps between children in early childhood have lasting and significant consequences for academic, social, and behavioral outcomes in the future. To understand school readiness, this study examines the effects of socioeconomic status, parent-child interaction, and self-control on preschoolers’ school readiness and Grade 1 students’ academic performance by a structural equation model with a sample of 836 South Korean children. Findings include that 1) SES had a direct effect on academic performance, not on school readiness; 2) parent-interaction did not have associations with both school readiness and academic performance, and; 3) preschoolers’ self-control had an indirect effect on Grade 1 students’ academic performance via preschoolers’ school readiness.

Author

• Youngwon Kim, University of Washington - Seattle