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Child and Contextual Effects in the Emergence of Differential Maternal Sensitivity across Siblings
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Browne, Dillon T.; Wade, Mark; Plamondon, Andre; Leckie, George; Perlman, Michal; Madigan, Sheri; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study examined the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and sibling differences in birth weight on sibling differences in the receipt of maternal sensitivity (i.e., differential parenting). It was hypothesized that sibling differences in birth weight would predict "absolute" differential parenting across the sibship (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Siblings, Body Weight
Maternal Behavior Predicts Infant Neurophysiological and Behavioral Attention Processes in the First Year
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Swingler, Margaret M.; Perry, Nicole B.; Calkins, Susan D.; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Psychology, 2017
We apply a biopsychosocial conceptualization to attention development in the 1st year and examine the role of neurophysiological and social processes on the development of early attention processes. We tested whether maternal behavior measured during 2 mother-child interaction tasks when infants (N = 388) were 5 months predicted infant medial…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Neurology
Infant Approach and Withdrawal in Response to a Goal Blockage: Its Antecedent Causes and Its Effect on Toddler Persistence
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Lewis, Michael; Sullivan, Margaret W.; Kim, Hillary Mi-Sung – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In 2 separate longitudinal studies, infants and their mothers were seen in 3 longitudinal visits. At 2 months, they were observed in free play where mothers' contingency toward their infants was obtained. At 5 months, a goal blockage response was produced when a previously learned contingent response became ineffective in producing an interesting…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
Negative Emotionality and Discipline as Long-Term Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes in African American and European American Children
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Streit, Cara; Carlo, Gustavo; Ispa, Jean M.; Palermo, Francisco – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study examined the early parenting and temperament determinants of children's antisocial and positive behaviors in a low-income, diverse ethno-racial sample. Participants were from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, which included 960 European American (initial M age = 15.00 months; 51.2% female) and 880 African…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, African Americans
Early Adversity, Elevated Stress Physiology, Accelerated Sexual Maturation, and Poor Health in Females
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Belsky, Jay; Ruttle, Paula L.; Boyce, W. Thomas; Armstrong, Jeffrey M.; Essex, Marilyn J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Evolutionary-minded developmentalists studying predictive-adaptive-response processes linking childhood adversity with accelerated female reproductive development and health scientists investigating the developmental origins of health and disease (DOoHaD) may be tapping the same process, whereby longer-term health costs are traded off for…
Descriptors: Females, Early Experience, Anxiety, Physiology
Maternal Preconceptions About Parenting Predict Child Temperament, Maternal Sensitivity, and Children's Empathy
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Kiang, Lisa; Moreno, Amanda J.; Robinson, JoAnn L. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examined the influence of maternal preconceptions on child difficult temperament at 6 months and maternal sensitivity at 12-15 months and whether all 3 variables predicted children's empathy at 21-24 months. Within a low-income, ethnically diverse sample of 175 mother-child dyads, path models were tested with 3 empathy indices…
Descriptors: Personality, Child Rearing, Path Analysis, Empathy