"You did a great job building that!" Links between parent-child prosocial talk and spatial language.

ABSTRACT: We investigated the extent to which parents' prosocial talk and negations relate to the quantity and diversity of parents' spatial language production. We also examined similar associations among children. Participants included 51 children of ages 4-7 years and their parents recruited from South Florida. Most of the dyads included mothers and were Hispanic and bilingual. Dyads constructed a Lego house for 10 min. Sessions were transcribed and coded for instances of parent prosocial talk (praises, reflective statements, and behavior descriptions), child general positive statements (all positive contributions to the interaction), and parent and child negations (criticisms, corrections, and disapprovals) using the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System. Transcripts were also coded for

SUBMITTER: Hall LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10535432 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature