Elaboration and Autonomy Support in Low-Income Mothers' Reminiscing: Links to Children's Autobiographical Narratives

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Mother-child conversations at 36 months and at pre-kindergarten: Relations to children's school readiness (2012, result): “Others have found that mothers from Latino backgrounds used a less elaborative style (such as the use of descriptions and open-ended questions) when compared with mothers from African American and Caucasian backgrounds (Leyva et al., 2008).”
A Review of parent interventions for preschool children’s language and emergent literacy (2010, background): “Parents in a diverse range of cultures talk with their children about past events (Miller et al., 1990), although the frequency and style of past event talk varies across cultures and income levels (Leyva et al., 2008; Wang, 2001).”
From reminiscing to reading: Home contributions to children’s developing language and literacy in low-income families (2013, methodology): “The question remains, however, does parents’ use of elaborative forms of talk about displaced events cultivate the development of children’s representational thought? Leyva et al. (2011) proposed that parents’ elaborative talk may promote children’s abstract thinking, which may then generalize beyon”