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Using repeated measures and geographic data to understand multiple contexts of development
Fri, October 5, 4:45 to 6:15pm, Doubletree Hilton, Room: Fiesta II and IIIAbstract
Children experience multiple environmental contexts over the course of the day as they transition between their home and other environments, such as school. Abundant evidence indicates that both home and school environments independently influence children’s development. Building on this, my prior research considers children’s experiences across multiple contexts. In previous analyses, I identified profiles of caregiving harshness and responsivity in home and childcare settings in early childhood (see attached figure). I also created an extensive database of geographically-linked data from historical business databases, Census data, etc. One barrier to continuing this research is that data that includes geographic markers for both children’s home and school contexts or in-depth measures of children’s home and school environments at repeated time points are difficult to access.
With the appropriate data, I would explore the following questions:
1) What are the experiences of home and school environments across childhood?
2) How does the relationship between environmental consistency and child outcomes differ by developmental stage?
To answer this question, the ideal data set would include repeated measures of children’s home and school environments (ideally, geographic measures and more proximal measures of environmental quality). It will also have child outcome data for multiple time points.
3) How do differences in neighborhood contexts for home and school environments relate to children’s development?
Using neighborhood contexts rather than caregiving quality moves my research from more proximal environmental contexts to more distal contexts. To answer this research question, data would need to include geographic indicators (more specific is better, such as address rather than Census tract) for both home and school environments for children in addition to child outcome data.