– CORE Members Presented at the SRCD 2023 Biennial Meeting

In March 2023, CORE members presented at the SRCD 2023 Biennial Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA.

The team presented a total of 17 papers/posters at the conference. Please find detailed presentation information below.

Hechunzi WANG & Shuyang Dong

Title: Like Father Like Son? The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes in China

Introduction: This paper examines intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes among three generations of a family using data from the national longitudinal survey, China Family Panel Studies. Preliminary analysis reveals trends of increasing egalitarian attitudes in later cohorts, with stronger gender role transmission observed from parent to child compared to grandparents to grandchild.

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Laure Lu CHEN & Nirmala RAO

Title: Stability and Change in Digital Technology Use: A Longitudinal Study of Primary School Students

Introduction: The research project explores children’s digital technology use patterns and examines their links to digital literacy with a representative sample of primary school students in Hong Kong.

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Zeyi LI, Nirmala RAO, & Jing GONG

Title: Concordance Between Direct Assessment and Adult Report in Child Assessment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Introduction: The present study examined the associations between adult report and direct assessment of children’s early learning and developmental competencies and explores possible moderators of the relation between them.

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Yi YANG, Shuyang DONG, & Nirmala RAO

Title: How does community influence cultural capital reproduction: Observations from the China Family Panel Study

Introduction: The project investigates how inequalities in community contexts affect family cultural capital and, in turn, the investment in early learning through leveraging data from China Family Panel Study (CFPS).

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Manya BALA & Nirmala RAO

Title: Progress in Ameliorating Stunting in India: Trends in Prevalence and Social Determinants

Introduction: This project leveraged data from the three most recent rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) to assess trends in stunting prevalence change between 2005-2021 and examine the extent to which social factors predict stunting.

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Yau Yu CHAN

Title: Parental expectations of early childhood education in Hong Kong: Differences between Chinese and Pakistani Parents

Introduction: This study examined the differences in parental expectations of early childhood education between Chinese and Pakistani parents in Hong Kong. The moderating roles of child's gender and family socioeconomic status in the relationship were also examined.

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Shuyang DONG

Title: Social Learning in Families: Maternal Cognitive Mind-Mindedness and Maternal Time Predict Children's Inhibitory Control

Introduction: This presentation is about the predictions of maternal use of mind-related comments and the time mothers spent on taking care of the child to the development of inhibitory control skills throughout toddlerhood in Chinese families. The presentation demonstrates how social learning processes occur naturally in mother-child interactions in the family context. The attached is a photo from this symposium.

Title: No Evidence Supports the New 'Useless Education Theory

Introduction: This presentation is about inequalities in parents' education aspirations across six years in China pertaining to variations in different social-demographical-economic factors. The presentation demonstrates a modest increase in Chinese parents' educational aspirations over historical time and narrowed variations in educational aspirations for Chinese parents from different backgrounds. I can't download the photo from my WeChat as it said that the phone is outdated.

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Jing GONG & Nirmala RAO

Title: Socioeconomic Disparities in Chinese Children’s First-grade Academic Achievement: The Mediating Role of Early Learning Experiences

Introduction: This study investigates educational inequality among Chinese preschool-aged children and understands the mechanisms through which family SES influences first-grade academic achievement. It highlighted two significant processes through which families foster the child’s learning abilities during preschool years—the home and preschool learning experiences.

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Zeyi LI, Nirmala RAO, & Stephanie CHAN

Title: Developmental Status of Young Children in China: Findings from Parent Report and Direct Assessment

Introduction: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) in measuring children’s developmental status in China and compared it with a direct assessment measure.

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Rui ZHANG & Nirmala RAO

Title: Socioeconomic Status, Home Learning Environment, Parental Absence, and Academic Achievement: An 8-year Longitudinal Study in China

Introduction: The current study utilized data from the 2010 and 2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), suggesting that early family socioeconomic status was positively associated with children's literacy and mathematics scores eight years later. The results varied between rural and urban areas and children's migration statuses.

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Hechunzi WANG & Shuyang Dong

Laure Lu CHEN & Nirmala RAO

Zeyi LI, Nirmala RAO, & Jing GONG

Yi YANG, Shuyang DONG, & Nirmala RAO

Manya BALA & Nirmala RAO

Yau Yu CHAN

Shuyang DONG

Jing GONG & Nirmala RAO

Zeyi LI, Nirmala RAO, & Stephanie CHAN

Rui ZHANG & Nirmala RAO

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