ABSTRACT

Parental cognitions are considered to have a strong influence on parental behaviours that, in turn, shape children’s development. Among these parental cognitions, parental self-efficacy (PSE) represents the parents’ confidence about their ability to successfully raise their children. Although PSE can explain the quality of parent-child interactions and their impact on the children’s general development, the relations between PSE and children’s development of language has been rarely studied. In this paper, we review the studies that explore some facets of the relationships between parenting (parental cognition, PSE, and parental behaviours) and children’s early language development. Our main objective is to highlight the relevance of considering PSE in relation to children’s early language development. Consequently, we suggest several future research directions to explore the processes relating these two constructs and a model where the PSE is a transactional variable.

摘要

父母的认知被认为对父母的行为有很大的影响，而父母的行为反过来影响了孩子的成长。在这些父母的认知中，父母的自我效能感（PSE）代表父母对成功养育子女的能力的信心。尽管PSE可以解释亲子互动的质量及其对儿童总体发展的影响，但很少研究PSE与儿童语言发展之间的关系。在本文中，我们回顾了研究，探讨了育儿（父母认知，PSE和父母行为）与儿童早期语言发展之间的关系的一些方面。我们的主要目标是强调考虑PSE与儿童早期语言发展的相关性。所以，交易变量。