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Direct linkJustine Hoch; Christina Hospodar; Gabriela Koch da Costa Aguiar Alves; Karen Adolph – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Independent locomotion is associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes, but unlike cognitive, linguistic, and social skills, acquiring motor skills requires infants to generate their own input for learning. We tested factors that shape infants' spontaneous locomotion by observing forty 12- to 22-month-olds (19 girls, 21 boys) during…
Descriptors: Infants, Physical Environment, Social Environment, Psychomotor Skills
West, Kelsey L.; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Infants learn nouns during object-naming events--moments when caregivers name the object of infants' play (e.g., ball as infant holds a ball). Do caregivers also label the actions of infants' play (e.g., roll as infant rolls a ball)? We investigated connections between mothers' verb inputs and infants' actions. We video-recorded 32 infant-mother…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Child Behavior, Verbs
Margolis, Amy E.; Lee, Sang Han; Peterson, Bradley S.; Beebe, Beatrice – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Prior studies of mother-infant interaction have generally used a variable-centered approach to associate face-to-face communication with psychosocial outcomes. Herein, we use a person-centered approach to identify clusters of infants who exhibit similar behavioral profiles during face-to-face communication with their mothers. Four infant…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Child Language, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Buthmann, Jessica; Finik, Jackie; Nomura, Yoko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The present study examines the relationship between sex, infant temperament, and childhood psychophysiological reactivity via electrodermal activity (EDA). Both temperament and EDA are known to be relatively stable traits across the lifespan reflecting individual reactivity and regulation linked to suboptimal behavioral development and risk for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Infants, Personality Traits, Psychology
Parlakian, Rebecca; Kinser, Kathy – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
This article reviews the research base on the development of prenatal attachment and profiles four programs that foster this essential prenatal relationship: CenteringPregnancy®, the Practical Resources for Effective Postpartum Parenting program (PREPP), Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP), and Moms2B.
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Program Effectiveness, Pregnancy, Metacognition
Peer reviewedBornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
During observed interactions between mothers and infants in New York, Paris, and Tokyo, mothers responded to infants' exploration of the environment with encouragement, infants' vocalized nondistress with imitation, and infants' distress with nurturance. Cultural differences in maternal responsiveness to infant looking behavior were found. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Compares activities related to maternal organization of infant attention toward mother and the environment in Japanese and American mother-child dyads. Results reveal that the two cultures have both similar activity and interaction patterns and culture-specific patterns. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Attention, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedBornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Compares activities and interactions of Japanese and American mothers and their five-month-old infants in their natural home settings from a macroanalytic viewpoint in terms of mothers' verbal and visual stimulation of infants and infants' visual and tactual exploration and vocalization. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Exploratory Behavior
Download full textFeiring, Candice; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this study was to examine the social support network of mothers with high risk infants and the relation between support and mother-infant interactive behavior. Two issues were investigated: who gave what kind of support to the mother as a function of her infant's birth status; and the relation between type of support and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Diseases, Ethnic Groups, High Risk Persons
