title: The enduring predictive significance of early maternal sensitivity: social and academic competence through age 32 years.
abstract: This study leveraged data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (N = 243) to investigate the predictive significance of maternal sensitivity during the first 3 years of life for social and academic competence through age 32 years. Structural model comparisons replicated previous findings that early maternal sensitivity predicts social skills and academic achievement through midadolescence in a manner consistent with an enduring effects model of development and extended these findings using heterotypic indicators of social competence (effectiveness of romantic engagement) and academic competence (educational attainment) during adulthood. Although early socioeconomic factors and child gender accounted for the predictive significance of maternal sensitivity for social competence, covariates did not fully account for associations between early sensitivity and academic outcomes.
authors.affiliation: University of Delaware.
authors.forename: K Lee
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Raby
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Glenn I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Roisman
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
authors.forename: R Chris
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Fraley
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jeffry A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Simpson
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D066107:Social Skills; D055815:Young Adult