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Caregiver- versus Mother-Infant Interactions in Relation to Cognitive, Social and Emotional Measures at 11 Years of Age
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Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Klein, Pnina; Atira, Gila; Ben-Eliezer, Ruhama – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Infants and toddlers spend a substantial amount of their time in out-of-home care, and are thus being tended to not only by their mothers but also by their caregivers. It is therefore of considerable importance to study the effects of caregiver-infant compared to mother-infant interactions. To address this issue, first, various variables of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
The Early Construction of Spatial Attention: Culture, Space, and Gesture in Parent-Child Interactions
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McCrink, Koleen; Caldera, Christina; Shaki, Samuel – Child Development, 2018
American and Israeli toddler-caregiver dyads (mean age of toddler = 26 months) were presented with naturalistic tasks in which they must watch a short video (N = 97) or concoct a visual story together (N = 66). English-speaking American caregivers were more likely to use left to right spatial structuring than right to left, especially for…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Attention, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Quality of Care at Home and in Daycare and Social Behaviour in Early Childhood
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Shuper Engelhard, Einat; Klein, Pnina S.; Yablon, Yaacov B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
An attempt was made in the present study to identify mothers' and caregivers' teaching (mediation) behaviour in relation to toddlers' social behaviour. Participants were 103 toddlers, two- to four-year olds, their mothers, and 28 caregivers at 16 public daycare centres in Israel. Two observations were carried out, one in toddlers' homes and the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Behavior, Educational Quality, Caregivers
Behaviour Patterns in Daily Mother-Child Separations: Possible Opportunities for Stress Reduction
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Klein, Pnina S.; Kraft, Ravit R.; Shohet, Cilly – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Despite the abundance of research on attachment and on the effects of separation, very little research examines the actual processes of separation occurring daily when mothers leave their children (age 6-18 months) in out-of-home group care. In the current study, this everyday process of separation was observed for three months…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Toddlers, Child Caregivers
Parent-Child and Triadic Antecedents of Children's Social Competence: Cultural Specificity, Shared Process
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Feldman, Ruth; Masalha, Shafiq – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Guided by theories of cultural participation, the authors examined mother-child, father-child, and triadic interactive behaviors in 141 Israeli and Palestinian couples and their firstborn child at 5 and 33 months as antecedents of children's social competence. Four parent-child measures (parent sensitivity, child social engagement, parental…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Infants, Cultural Differences
Mothers' and Caregivers' Interactive and Teaching Behavior with Toddlers
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Klein, Pnina S.; Feldman, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
Interactive behavior of 90 Israeli toddlers was observed with mothers and caregivers in one-on-one free play interactions. Children were examined with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, and adults completed self-report measures. Observations were coded for both the quality of adult-child interactive behavior and for the quality of adults'…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Caregivers, Play, Mothers