@article{ref1,
title="Teacher depressive symptoms and children's school readiness in Ghana",
journal="Child development",
year="2023",
author="Peele, Morgan and Wolf, Sharon and Behrman, Jere R. and Aber, J. Lawrence",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study investigated associations between kindergarten teachers' (N = 208) depressive symptoms and students' (Ghanaian nationals, N = 1490, M(age)  = 5.8) school-readiness skills (early literacy, early numeracy, social-emotional skills, and executive function) across 208 schools in Ghana over one school year. Teachers' depressive symptoms in the fall negatively predicted students' overall school-readiness skills in the spring, controlling for school-readiness skills in the fall. These results were primarily driven by social-emotional skills (r = .1-.3). There was evidence of heterogeneity by students' fall skill levels; teacher depressive symptoms predicted more negative spring overall school readiness for children who had higher fall school-readiness skills. <br><br>FINDINGS underscore the importance of teachers' mental health in early childhood education globally, with implications for policy and practice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/cdev.13909",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13909"
}