Preschool Influences on Occupational Knowledge of Seven-Year-Olds

Abstract

A prospective study of 180 children from birth to age seven is reported. The criteria at age seven was knowledge of occupations as indicated by a pictorial test. The predictors were: seven aspects of the child and home at birth’s, maternal IQ as tested when child was three years, a quantified description of the potential stimulating characteristics of the home at four years; and a measure of parental attitudes to schooling when child was age five. The data were subjected to a multivariate regression analysis. Social class data were the prime source of criterion variance.