Home Stimulation and Gender as Moderators of the Association Between Siblings and Executive Functions in Pakistani Preschoolers

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Abstract: The current study investigates the association between the number of older siblings and child executive function (EF) skills in a sample of 1302 four-year-olds living in rural Pakistan. We examined the quality of home stimulation and child gender as potential moderators of this association. Using ordinary least square regression, we assessed a three-way interaction amongst the number of older siblings, home stimulation, and child gender. We found a positive association between the number of older siblings and EF skills for boys in both high and low home stimulation, and for girls in low home stimulation. However, this association was negative for girls from families characterized by higher levels of home stimulation. We discuss the findings in the context of family resource distribution and offer policy implications for early childhood interventions in low-middle income country (LMIC) contexts.

Type of resource	text
Date created	August 2020

Author	Rathore, Mansoor Aslam

Subject	executive functions
Subject	siblings
Subject	home stimulation
Subject	gender
Subject	low-middle income country
Subject	Pakistan
Subject	Stanford Graduate School of Education International Education Policy Analysis
Genre	Thesis

Related item	Title Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/pf861br0735

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