Home: Mother-Child Teaching Task at 14 Months


Description of Test: This test assesses how the mother differentially deploys her warmth, attention, and teaching strategies simultaneously to the twins.  To see the description of the Mother-Child Teaching Task Procedure from the MALTS procedure document, move there.  To see the form on which the data was recorded, click to see form.  To see a WORD document of the coding instructions for the Mother-Child Teaching Task, click to access coding document

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Variable Names:  Variable names from this database have the prefix V1MCT. The data set has 597 test subjects and 15 variables. Data were collected by viewing video tapes of the home visit of 14 month old twins. The variables include: Coder ID, 11 Mother Child Teaching Task items, and a comment field.    Move there to move to the complete list of variable names from this database.

Cleaning:  The data have been examined to ensure that the values of the variables are within range.  Compatibility of the problem codes in the Home Visit Card (V1HVC) database with this database will be examined.

Composites:  There are currently no composite variables defined from the Mother-Child Teaching Task procedure.

Complete List of Variable Names: 
Index of variable names and their labels
Variable Label
TWINID Twin ID
V1MCTCDR 14M MCTT:  Coder ID
V1MCTTIM 14M MCTT:  Total Time (sec)
V1MCTATT 14M MCTT:  Number of Attends to Child
V1MCTTOT 14M MCTT:  Total Time Attending Child (sec)
V1MCTINI 14M MCTT:  Number of Initiations
V1MCTDEP 14M MCTT:  Number of Dependent Attends
V1MCTHLD 14M MCTT:  Number of Holds of Child
V1MCTPOS 14M MCTT:  Average Positive Affect
V1MCTPRA 14M MCTT:  Number of Praises
V1MCTOR 14M MCTT:  Number of Orientations
V1MCTHLP 14M MCTT:  Number of Helping Episodes
V1MCTNEG 14M MCTT:  Average Negative Affect
V1MCTCOM 14M MCTT:  Comments
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Procedure Description:

Mother/Child Teaching Task

This assessment is done at 14, 20, 24 and 36 months. Each mother was asked to sit on the floor with one of her children sitting by each of her knees. Each child was given a peg board with colored shapes at 14 months of age, a square board with colored blocks at 20 and 24 months of age and a sorting board with colored blocks of varying shapes at 36 months of age. Once the mother and her children were engaged in the task, the examiner left the room for seven minutes. Before leaving, the mother was reminded to teach the children to put the shapes and/or colors together, thus encouraging mom to explore her teaching style. The true purpose of this task was to assess differential environment through the mother’s differential attention, warmth, and control strategies with each child.

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