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ArticlePloS one2019

Contextual variation in young children's acquisition of social-emotional skills.

Dana C McCoy, Jorge Cuartas, Marcus Waldman, Günther Fink

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Dana C McCoyHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0896-1813
Jorge CuartasHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0451-3298
Marcus WaldmanHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
Günther FinkSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study examined variation in the timing of 5,447 infants' and toddlers' reported acquisition of 12 basic social-emotional skills across and within 11 developing and developed country sites. Although children differed significantly across sites in when they attained social-emotional skills on average (e.g., M age Brazil = 20.50 months vs. M age India = 26.92 months), there was also substantial heterogeneity across skills. For example, children in Pakistan were reported to demonstrate sympathy on average seven months earlier than their peers in Ghana, whereas the opposite was true for sharing. Overall, country-level health and education were strongly associated (r > .60) with earlier site-level skill attainment. In addition to heterogeneity across sites, we also observed notable within-site variability in skill development (ICCs = .03 to .38). Future research is needed to identify sources of variability and how to promote skills that matter within a given context.

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Child DevelopmentEmotionsSocial SkillsAge FactorsChild, PreschoolCross-Cultural ComparisonDeveloped CountriesDeveloping CountriesFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMale

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PMID31738767
PMCPMC6860446

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