Kathy R Thornburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 128284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy R Thornburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy R |
| FAMILY NAME | Thornburg |
| SIGNATURE | THORNBURG K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2657-3897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Effects of Preschool Education: What We Know, How Public Policy Is or Is Not Aligned With the Evidence Base, and What We Need to Know
Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has become one of the most vibrant areas of scientific activity in terms of the connections among scientific advances and theory, program design, policy, and classroom practices. But despite the potential links between research and evaluation on the one hand and program …
Cash incentives and turnover in center-based child care staff
The helping relationship and program participation in early childhood home visiting
As researchers have focused on better understanding those circumstances under which home visiting can lead to positive effects on parent and child outcomes, there has been growing interest in examining variation in the experiences of families within these programs, including the quality of the helping relationships between home visitors and parents. The current study examined how participating mothers perceive the helping relationship, using info…
Building successful home visitor–mother relationships and reaching program goals in two Early Head Start programs: A qualitative look at contributing factors
Relations Among Maternal Racial Identity, Maternal Parenting Behavior, and Child Outcomes in Low-Income, Urban, Black Families
This study examined maternal racial identity and its relations to maternal depression, maternal age, maternal parenting behavior, and 5-year-old children's social and cognitive outcomes. Participants included 62 African American mother-child dyads enrolled in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Mothers completed measures on their own racial identity and depression and on their children's social competence. Children were assessed…
Relations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and amount of time spent in home visits
Evaluations of a variety of home‐based early childhood intervention programs show that home visit rates fall short of the number prescribed. In an attempt to add to knowledge about reasons for this phenomenon, the current study explored associations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and time spent in home visits. Maternal negative emotionality was positively related to both time spent in home visits and relationship…
Maternal personality as a moderator of relations between difficult infant temperament and attachment security in low‐income families
Maternal personality as a moderator of relations between difficult infant temperament and attachment security in low‐income families
The primary purpose of the current study was to determine whether maternal proneness‐to‐stress (stress reactivity and alienation) moderates the relation between infant difficult temperament and attachment security in a sample of 82 inner‐city, low‐income, primarily single and African American young mothers. The mothers completed adult personality and infant temperament questionnaires when their infants were approximately 10 months old. Attachment…
African American College Students' Psychosocial Development as Related to Care Arrangements during Infancy
Associations were explored between the present emotional and social development of low-and middle-income African American male and female college students and the substitute care arrangements (none, part time, orfull time) they experienced as infants. The students who had experienced full-time substitute care scored signiflcantly higher on several subscales (Friendship, Identity, and Self-Confidence) of the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (E…
Testing the Simplex Assumption Underlying the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory
This study examined whether or not the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) measured the hierarchical model of development proposed by Erikson. Over 1000 college students responded to the inventory. Using the simplex pattern, the EPSI did not measure Erikson's stages for this sample of students. An examination of the EPSI for subgroups by race and gender did not yield positive results. Possible explanations of the findings are included
Development of kindergarten children based on child care arrangements
Parent as a Teacher Inventory: Factor Analyses for Fathers, Mothers, and Teachers
Strom (1974) developed the Parent as a Teacher Inventory (PAAT) to measure parents' feelings and beliefs regarding interaction with their young children. Parents indicate their level of agreement with 50 Likert-type statements. A factor analysis was performed on the responses of 615 parents of preschool children. In addition, items were slightly re-worded and given to 267 early childhood teachers. Results indicated that 33 of the 50 PAAT items ar…
Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory: A Factor Analysis
The 72-item Erikson Psychosocial Inventory (EPSI) was factor analyzed for a group of 534 university freshmen and sophomore students. Seven factors including 54 items emerged which the authors labeled Initiative, Industry, Identity, Friendship, Dating, Goal Clarity and Self-Confidence. Items representing Erikson's first two factors, Trust and Autonomy, were dispersed across the new set of factors; this factor pattern was discussed from the perspec…
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Vocational role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Preschoolers' Self and Social Identity Within the Family Structure
The helping relationship and program participation in early childhood home visiting
As researchers have focused on better understanding those circumstances under which home visiting can lead to positive effects on parent and child outcomes, there has been growing interest in examining variation in the experiences of families within these programs, including the quality of the helping relationships between home visitors and parents. The current study examined how participating mothers perceive the helping relationship, using info…
Building successful home visitor–mother relationships and reaching program goals in two Early Head Start programs: A qualitative look at contributing factors
Relations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and amount of time spent in home visits
Evaluations of a variety of home‐based early childhood intervention programs show that home visit rates fall short of the number prescribed. In an attempt to add to knowledge about reasons for this phenomenon, the current study explored associations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and time spent in home visits. Maternal negative emotionality was positively related to both time spent in home visits and relationship…
Relations Among Maternal Racial Identity, Maternal Parenting Behavior, and Child Outcomes in Low-Income, Urban, Black Families
This study examined maternal racial identity and its relations to maternal depression, maternal age, maternal parenting behavior, and 5-year-old children's social and cognitive outcomes. Participants included 62 African American mother-child dyads enrolled in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Mothers completed measures on their own racial identity and depression and on their children's social competence. Children were assessed…
Maternal personality as a moderator of relations between difficult infant temperament and attachment security in low‐income families
The primary purpose of the current study was to determine whether maternal proneness‐to‐stress (stress reactivity and alienation) moderates the relation between infant difficult temperament and attachment security in a sample of 82 inner‐city, low‐income, primarily single and African American young mothers. The mothers completed adult personality and infant temperament questionnaires when their infants were approximately 10 months old. Attachment…
Cash incentives and turnover in center-based child care staff
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
African American College Students' Psychosocial Development as Related to Care Arrangements during Infancy
Associations were explored between the present emotional and social development of low-and middle-income African American male and female college students and the substitute care arrangements (none, part time, orfull time) they experienced as infants. The students who had experienced full-time substitute care scored signiflcantly higher on several subscales (Friendship, Identity, and Self-Confidence) of the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (E…
Development of kindergarten children based on child care arrangements
Preschoolers' Self and Social Identity Within the Family Structure
Vocational role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Marriage role expectations of five-year-old children and their parents
Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory: A Factor Analysis
The 72-item Erikson Psychosocial Inventory (EPSI) was factor analyzed for a group of 534 university freshmen and sophomore students. Seven factors including 54 items emerged which the authors labeled Initiative, Industry, Identity, Friendship, Dating, Goal Clarity and Self-Confidence. Items representing Erikson's first two factors, Trust and Autonomy, were dispersed across the new set of factors; this factor pattern was discussed from the perspec…
Parent as a Teacher Inventory: Factor Analyses for Fathers, Mothers, and Teachers
Strom (1974) developed the Parent as a Teacher Inventory (PAAT) to measure parents' feelings and beliefs regarding interaction with their young children. Parents indicate their level of agreement with 50 Likert-type statements. A factor analysis was performed on the responses of 615 parents of preschool children. In addition, items were slightly re-worded and given to 267 early childhood teachers. Results indicated that 33 of the 50 PAAT items ar…
Development of kindergarten children based on child care arrangements
Testing the Simplex Assumption Underlying the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory
This study examined whether or not the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) measured the hierarchical model of development proposed by Erikson. Over 1000 college students responded to the inventory. Using the simplex pattern, the EPSI did not measure Erikson's stages for this sample of students. An examination of the EPSI for subgroups by race and gender did not yield positive results. Possible explanations of the findings are included
African American College Students' Psychosocial Development as Related to Care Arrangements during Infancy
Associations were explored between the present emotional and social development of low-and middle-income African American male and female college students and the substitute care arrangements (none, part time, orfull time) they experienced as infants. The students who had experienced full-time substitute care scored signiflcantly higher on several subscales (Friendship, Identity, and Self-Confidence) of the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (E…
Maternal personality as a moderator of relations between difficult infant temperament and attachment security in low‐income families
Maternal personality as a moderator of relations between difficult infant temperament and attachment security in low‐income families
The primary purpose of the current study was to determine whether maternal proneness‐to‐stress (stress reactivity and alienation) moderates the relation between infant difficult temperament and attachment security in a sample of 82 inner‐city, low‐income, primarily single and African American young mothers. The mothers completed adult personality and infant temperament questionnaires when their infants were approximately 10 months old. Attachment…
Relations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and amount of time spent in home visits
Evaluations of a variety of home‐based early childhood intervention programs show that home visit rates fall short of the number prescribed. In an attempt to add to knowledge about reasons for this phenomenon, the current study explored associations among mother and home visitor personality, relationship quality, and time spent in home visits. Maternal negative emotionality was positively related to both time spent in home visits and relationship…
Relations Among Maternal Racial Identity, Maternal Parenting Behavior, and Child Outcomes in Low-Income, Urban, Black Families
This study examined maternal racial identity and its relations to maternal depression, maternal age, maternal parenting behavior, and 5-year-old children's social and cognitive outcomes. Participants included 62 African American mother-child dyads enrolled in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. Mothers completed measures on their own racial identity and depression and on their children's social competence. Children were assessed…
Building successful home visitor–mother relationships and reaching program goals in two Early Head Start programs: A qualitative look at contributing factors
Cash incentives and turnover in center-based child care staff
The helping relationship and program participation in early childhood home visiting
As researchers have focused on better understanding those circumstances under which home visiting can lead to positive effects on parent and child outcomes, there has been growing interest in examining variation in the experiences of families within these programs, including the quality of the helping relationships between home visitors and parents. The current study examined how participating mothers perceive the helping relationship, using info…
The Effects of Preschool Education: What We Know, How Public Policy Is or Is Not Aligned With the Evidence Base, and What We Need to Know
Early childhood education is at the nexus of basic developmental science, policy research and analysis, and the applied disciplines of education and prevention science. The field has become one of the most vibrant areas of scientific activity in terms of the connections among scientific advances and theory, program design, policy, and classroom practices. But despite the potential links between research and evaluation on the one hand and program …
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Personality (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)