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Speck, Bailey; Isenhour, Jennifer; Gao, Mengyu; Conradt, Elisabeth; Crowell, Sheila E.; Raby, K. Lee – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Research suggests that women's autonomic nervous system responses to infant cries capture processes that affect their parenting behaviors. The aim of this study was to build on prior work by testing whether pregnant women's autonomic responses to an unfamiliar infant crying also predict their infants' emerging regulation abilities. Participants…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Females, Infants, Crying
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Inal, Sevil; Aydin Yilmaz, Diler; Erdim, Leyla – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study was a prospective, randomized controlled trial. The study sample consisted of 105 healthy neonates who conformed to the case selection criteria. Neonates were randomly assigned to the following groups: swaddling (S), maternal holding (MH), and controls (C). The study data were obtained using an information form and the Neonatal Infant…
Descriptors: Mothers, Laboratory Procedures, Neonates, Parent Child Relationship
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Todil, Tugba; Cetinkaya, Senay – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Kangaroo care (KC) or kangaroo mother care (KMC), sometimes called skin-to-skin contact, is a technique of newborn care where babies are kept chest-to-chest and skin-to-skin with a parent. The research was carried out experimentally to investigate the effect of the early kangaroo care by using Neonatal Comfort Behavior Scale in invasive…
Descriptors: Neonates, Program Effectiveness, Mothers, Crying
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Kaya de Barbaro; Priyanka Khante; Meeka Maier; Sherryl Goodman – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Depression in mothers is consistently associated with reduced caregiving sensitivity and greater infant negative affect expression. The current article examined the real-time behavioral mechanisms underlying these associations using Granger causality time series analyses in a sample of mothers (N = 194; 86.60% White) at elevated risk for…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Depression (Psychology), Play
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Sherry S. Heller; Hannah H. Covert; Grace Drnach-Bonaventura; Linda Gilkerson; Leanne Kallemeyen; Maureen Y. Lichtveld; Mya Sherman; Catherine A. Taylor – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study assessed a preventive intervention home visiting programme (Fussy Baby Network (FBN)) designed to support mothers struggling with infant crying, sleeping, or feeding concerns. Mothers were referred to the programme through local health- and social service providers and were eligible to participate in the study if they were age 18 or…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Home Visits, Mothers
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Ducreux, Edwige; Puentes-Neuman, Guadalupe – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study used an ethological approach to explore the behavioural adaptation of nineteen infants during their first six weeks in Residential Care (RC), or a Foster Family (FF) or an Infant-Mother Centre (IMC). Direct observations were conducted once a week at bath time. Observed behaviours were: sleep-wake states, visual exploration, motor…
Descriptors: Infants, Foster Care, Mothers, Infant Behavior