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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