Behavioral Components of School Readiness.
AbstractThe purpose of the study was to determine the characteristics in the preschool migrant child that were related to school readiness. The relationship between change in school readiness and behavioral changes was investigated using 61 male and 72 female migrant preschool children (CA = 3.9 to 4.9). Change during a three-month interval in a compensatory preschool program in self-concept, delay of gratification, self-control, and risk taking was analyzed using multiple linear regression. For the girls, growth in self-concept and delay of gratification was significantly related to growth in school readiness, while for the boys, measures of change in self-control predicted growth in school readiness.