TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Teacher depressive symptoms and children's school readiness in Ghana
JO  - Child development
A1  - Peele, Morgan
A1  - Wolf, Sharon
A1  - Behrman, Jere R.
A1  - Aber, J. Lawrence
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13909
ID  - ref1
ER  -