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Huang, Ruoyu; Fletcher, Paul; Zhang, Zhixiang; Liang, Weilan; Marchman, Virginia; Tardif, Twila – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Mandarin Chinese, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Dong, Shuyang; Wang, Zhengyan; Cheng, Nanhua – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined how maternal cognitive mind-mindedness, maternal time, and their interactions predict inhibitory control in Chinese children. Participants were 88 toddlers (59% girls) and their mothers from Beijing, China. Maternal cognitive mind-mindedness was coded in mother-child interactions and mothers reported weekly interaction duration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Predictor Variables, Mothers
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Cao, Ruixin; Wu, Meng; Liu, Moweii – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study investigated connectedness-oriented behaviours during mother-child interaction and their associations with children's later school adjustment in China. One hundred and ten children, 50 boys and 60 girls, about 2 years old and their mothers took part in the original observation. Ninety-two children, 44 boys and 48 girls, of the original…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Prediction
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Chen, Xi; Chen, Xinyin; Zhao, Siman; Way, Niobe; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Zhang, Guangzhen; Deng, Huihua; Cao, Ruixin; Chen, Huichang; Li, Dan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined toddlers' autonomy- and connectedness-oriented behaviors and mothers' encouragement of autonomy and connectedness in two cohorts (1995 and 2008) in urban China. Observational data were collected from Chinese children and their mothers in a laboratory free play session. The results showed that compared with children in the 1995…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
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Wang, Zhengyan; Dong, Shuyang – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
Autonomy is one of the core motivators of children's creativity and (non)compliance. But it is less known how children's (non)compliance links to later creative potential and how maternal parenting behaviors contribute to those links. This article, as part of a longitudinal study, tested whether preschoolers' committed compliance and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Personal Autonomy
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Huang, Heqing; Su, Yanjie; Jin, Jian – Infant and Child Development, 2017
The critical role of the second year of life in the development of empathy is well accepted by psychologists. However, the developmental trends of the different components of empathy and the potential factors underlying these components during this critical period remain unclear. Eighty-four Chinese toddlers in the second year of life participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Toddlers, Responses