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Direct linkAmy R. Smith; Brenda Salley; Deanna Hanson-Abromeit; Rocco A. Paluch; Hideko Engel; Jacqueline Piazza; Kai Ling Kong – Child Development, 2024
The early language environment, especially high-quality, contingent parent-child language interactions, is crucial for a child's language development and later academic success. In this secondary analysis study, 89 parent-child dyads were randomly assigned to either the Music Together® (music) or play date (control) classes. Children were 9- to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Community Education, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Christine Michel; Daniel Matthes; Stefanie Hoehl – Child Development, 2024
This study investigates infants' neural and behavioral responses to maternal ostensive signals during naturalistic mother-infant interactions and their effects on object encoding. Mothers familiarized their 9- to 10-month-olds (N = 35, 17 females, mainly White, data collection: 2018-2019) with objects with or without mutual gaze, infant-directed…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infant Behavior
Sam R. McHugh; Maureen Callanan; Garrett Jaeger; Cristine H. Legare; David M. Sobel – Child Development, 2024
This study examines how parents' and children's explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors support children's causal reasoning at a museum in San Jose, CA in 2017. One-hundred-nine parent-child dyads (3-6 years; 56 girls, 53 boys; 32 White, 9 Latino/Hispanic, 17 Asian-American, 17 South Asian, 1 Pacific Islander, 26 mixed ethnicity, 7 unreported)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Museums, Thinking Skills, Child Behavior
Nicole Creasey; Patty Leijten; Marieke S. Tollenaar; Marco P. Boks; Geertjan Overbeek – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated associations of the Incredible Years (IY) parenting program with children's DNA methylation. Participants were 289 Dutch children aged 3-9 years (75% European ancestry, 48% female) with above-average conduct problems. Saliva was collected 2.5 years after families were randomized to IY or care as usual (CAU). Using an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Qiong Wu; Soojin Han; Dania Tawfiq; Karina Jalapa; Chorong Lee; Kinsey Pocchio – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated familial attachment-based processes in middle childhood, using 788 families (50.6% boys; 84.4% White), assessed six times from 4.5 years old to Grade 6. An adapted Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model revealed between-family associations among couple emotional intimacy, relationships with both parents, and child social…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Intimacy, Parent Child Relationship
Buchmann, Marlis; Grütter, Jeanine; Zuffianò, Antonio – Child Development, 2022
The dynamic interplay of parental educational aspirations and children's academic self-concept was examined from late childhood through mid-adolescence within a transactional socialization framework. Parental and child data were gained from a representative Swiss sample within 3-year intervals (N[subscript T1] = 1118; 51% females; 28% migration…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Academic Aspiration, Parent Child Relationship, Self Concept
Danielle S. Fox; Leanne Elliott; Heather J. Bachman; Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal; Melissa E. Libertus – Child Development, 2024
Children's spatial activities and parental spatial talk were measured to examine their associations with variability in preschoolers' spatial skills (N = 113, Mage = 4 years, 4 months; 51% female; 80% White, 11% Black, and 9% other). Parents who reported more diversity in daily spatial activities and used longer spatial talk utterances during a…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Language Usage
Ophélie A. Collet; Massimiliano Orri; Cédric Galéra; Laura Pryor; Michel Boivin; Richard Tremblay; Sylvana Côté – Child Development, 2024
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months--2½ years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N =…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Personality, Psychological Patterns, School Readiness
Bialek, Arkadiusz; Zubek, Julian; Jackiewicz-Kawka, Martyna; Adamik, Klaudia; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the relations between two forms of joint action (JA)--movement coordination (MC) and goal attainment--and theory of mind (ToM), contrasting the interactionist and traditional cognitivist views. A custom task was carried out to measure the properties of the JAs between children and their parents, while classical tasks were…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Goal Orientation, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
Mills, Candice M.; Danovitch, Judith. H.; Mugambi, Victoria N.; Sands, Kaitlin R.; Pattisapu Fox, Candice – Child Development, 2022
Using a new method for examining parental explanations in a laboratory setting, the prompted explanation task, this study examines how characteristics of parental explanations about biology relate to children's knowledge. Parents (N = 148; M[subscript age] = 38; 84% female, 16% male; 67% having completed college) of children ages 7-10 (M[subscript…
Descriptors: Biology, Parent Role, Knowledge Level, Predictor Variables
How Smart Is My Child? The Judgment Accuracy of Parents Regarding Their Children's Cognitive Ability
Elena Mack; Vsevolod Scherrer; Franzis Preckel – Child Development, 2025
Parents' judgment of their children's cognitive ability is important for providing adequate learning environments. This study examined parents' judgment accuracy with 2346 children (M = 8.94 years; 48.3% girls) and their parents (1283 mothers, 426 fathers, and 637 parental pairs). The data were collected between September 2012 and February 2014 in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes
Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Ribner, Andrew; Silver, Alex M.; Elliott, Leanne; Libertus, Melissa E. – Child Development, 2023
We explore whether training parents' math skills or playing number games improves children's mathematical skills. Participants were 162 parent-child dyads; 88.3% were white and children (79 female) were 4 years (M = 46.88 months). Dyads were assigned to a number game, shape game, parent-only approximate number system training, parent-only general…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Games
Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Gibson, Jenny Louise – Child Development, 2023
This large-scale and longitudinal study examines early home support for learning, formal/informal home mathematics activities, and their associations with children's mathematical development between age two and six. Data were collected in Germany between 2012 and 2018, N = 1184 (49% girls, 51% boys), and 15% of children had parents with a…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Mathematics Education, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills
