title: Migration timing and parenting practices: contributions to social development in preschoolers with foreign-born and native-born mothers.
abstract: Little is known about how key aspects of parental migration or childrearing history affect social development across children from immigrant families. Relying on data on approximately 6,400 children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, analyses assessed the role of mother's age at migration on children's social development in the United States (sociability and problem behaviors). Consistent with models of divergent adaptation and assimilation, the relation between age at arrival and children's social development is not linear. Parenting practices, observed when children were approximately 24months of age, partially mediated the relation between mother's age at arrival and children's social development reported at approximate age 48months, particularly in the case of mothers who arrived as adults.
authors.affiliation: Center for Population Dynamics, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Box 3701, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Jennifer.glick@asu.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Glick
authors.forename: Laura D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Hanish
authors.forename: Scott T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Yabiku
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Bradley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult