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Erica Kamphorst; Marja Cantell; Alexander Minnaert; Suzanne Houwen; Ralf Cox – Early Education and Development, 2024
A complex dynamic systems perspective was applied to explore how mother and child mutually shape interpersonal coordination. Applying a microanalytic design, this study examined the moment-to-moment interaction behavior of 39 Dutch mothers and their three- and four-year-old children (53.8% girls, predominantly White) during a collaboration task.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship
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Boomstra, Nienke W.; van Dijk, Marijn W. G.; van Geert, Paul L. C. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article describes a study on mutuality in mother-child interaction during reading and playing sessions. Within mother-child interaction, mutuality is seen as important in language acquisition. The study was executed within a group of Netherlands Antillean mother-child dyads who participated in an intervention programme. Mutuality was…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Intervention
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van Lissa, Caspar J.; Hawk, Skyler T.; de Wied, Minet; Koot, Hans M.; van Lier, Pol; Meeus, Wim – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This 4-year study examined longitudinal interplays between adolescents' and mothers' self-reported empathic concern (EC) and perspective taking (PT). We investigated (a) whether adolescents' EC predicted rank-order change in their PT over time, or vice versa; (b) whether mothers' empathy predicted relative increases in adolescents' empathy; (c)…
Descriptors: Empathy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Prediction
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Szabo, Nora; Dubas, Judith Semon; Karreman, Annemiek; van Tuijl, Cathy; Dekovic, Maja; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Most research on parenting has focused on dyadic parent-child interactions to the neglect of triadic interactions between mother, father and child. Drawing from an evolutionary perspective, the present study examined how parental warmth and investment change as a function of the other parent's presence. Our sample consisted of 87 two-parent Dutch…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers