Caregiver Social Capital and Supportive Relationships are Associated with Better Child Social-Emotional Development

Pamela J. Surkan; Soim Park; Kathleen Ridgeway; Marcos Ribeiro; Thiago M. Fidalgo; Silvia S. Martins; Sheila C. Caetano

doi:10.1007/s10578-021-01292-6

Caregiver Social Capital and Supportive Relationships are Associated with Better Child Social-Emotional Development

Pamela J. Surkan, Soim Park, Kathleen Ridgeway, Marcos Ribeiro, Thiago M. Fidalgo, Silvia S. Martins, Sheila C. Caetano

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

This study examined how different domains of social capital and of social support among caregivers are associated with social-emotional development in children ages 4–6 and how caregiver depressive symptoms modify these associations. Using a stratified random sample of preschools, data included a cross-sectional study of 1147 child-caregiver pairs (543 girls) in a low-income municipality in Brazil. Crude and adjusted linear regression models revealed that all domains of social support and two domains of social capital were associated with less social-emotional development delay in children. Given a significant proportion of children in low- and middle-income countries do not meet developmental milestones, strengthening caregiver social capital and support in these settings may have the potential to improve child social-emotional development.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1102-1111
Number of pages	10
Journal	Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume	54
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01292-6
State	Published - Aug 2023

Keywords

Child health
Developing country
Lifecourse/childhood circumstances
Social capital
Social inequalities

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Psychiatry and Mental health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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