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Verhoef, Rogier E. J.; Hofstee, Marissa; Endendijk, Joyce J.; Huijding, Jorg; Dekovic, Maja – Developmental Psychology, 2023
During infancy and toddlerhood, parents show large individual differences in the extent to which they are able to tailor their parenting behaviors to their children's swiftly changing developmental needs. The first aim of our study was, therefore, to distinguish parenting profiles at three time points during infancy and toddlerhood (i.e., 5, 10,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Skills, Infants, Toddlers
Elizabeth B. Miller; Katherine A. Hails; Caitlin F. Canfield; Pamela A. Morris-Perez; Daniel S. Shaw; Alan L. Mendelsohn; Rachel S. Gross – Grantee Submission, 2024
Objective: To examine associations between cognitive stimulation in the home at 6 months and maternal feeding styles at 24 months, direct intervention effects of Smart Beginnings (SB) on feeding styles, and potential indirect effects of SB on feeding styles via earlier intervention effects on cognitive stimulation. Methods: Single-blind, two-site…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Mothers, Nutrition
Valentina Persici; Giulia Castelletti; Letizia Guerzoni; Domenico Cuda; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Variability in the vocabulary outcomes of children with cochlear implants (CIs) is partially explained by child-directed speech (CDS) characteristics. Yet, relatively little is known about whether and how mothers adapt their lexical and prosodic characteristics to the child's hearing status (before and after implantation, and compared…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Infants, Toddlers
Gunuc, Selim – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study investigated whether some factors regarding especially pregnancy and post-pregnancy and 0-36-month-old infants' exposure to digital screens played a role in the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) scores of 4-11-year-old children. The cross-sectional research method was used. The sample consisted of the mothers of 2835…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children, Infants, Toddlers
Brieger, Katharine K.; Bakulski, Kelly M.; Pearce, Celeste L.; Baylin, Ana; Dou, John F.; Feinberg, Jason I.; Croen, Lisa A.; Hertz-Picciotto, Irva; Newschaffer, Craig J.; Fallin, M. Daniele; Schmidt, Rebecca J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
We examined maternal prenatal vitamin use or supplemental folic acid intake during month one of pregnancy for association with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, an enriched-risk pregnancy cohort. Total folic acid intake was calculated from monthly prenatal vitamins, multivitamins, and other…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Nutrition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Orit Fuks – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This longitudinal multiple-case study research focused on the scaffolding strategies that two Israeli deaf mothers use to boost their young hearing children's engagement in reading interactions. Despite being significant to language learning, few studies have examined the dialogic reading practices of deaf-signing mothers. The study shows that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Total Communication
Vanwalleghem, S.; Miljkovitch, R. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: To document whether the sociocognitive peculiarities of people with Down Syndrome impact the construction of attachment at different ages, a systematic review of the literature was carried out. Method: This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses, was conducted on three databases: psycINFO,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Down Syndrome, Age Differences, Behavior Problems
Jennifer J. Phillips; Cheyenne A. Williams; John H. Hunter; Martha Ann Bell – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Measures of parasympathetic regulation, such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), predict executive function outcomes, including inhibitory control, across childhood. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia augmentation tends to be associated with more maladaptive outcomes, compared to RSA suppression, but the literature regarding RSA profiles and…
Descriptors: Infants, Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Ban, Midori; Takahashi, Hideyuki – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study explored child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child's minds. We administered the Mind Perception Questionnaire to 216 women with children aged between 0 and 24 months and 221 working women without children. Participants responded with mind perceptions for various entities, including for their children (a 0--2-year-old…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Infants, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
Sarah Coughlan; Jean Quigley; Elizabeth Nixon – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: To investigate the language environments experienced by preterm-born infants, this study compared the linguistic and interactive features of parent--infant conversations involving 2-year-old preterm- and term-born infants. The study also explored how mother-infant and father-infant conversations may be differentially affected by…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Toddlers
Merideth Gattis; Quoc Cuong Truong; Carol Cornsweet Barber; Wendy Middlemiss; Oleg N. Medvedev – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Researchers and practitioners need robust measurement tools for evaluating knowledge of child development to better support parents and their children during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood. We addressed this need by evaluating the psychometric properties of the Domains of Development Instrument (DoDI) for measuring knowledge of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Child Development, Pregnancy, Adjustment (to Environment)
Bai, Liu; Kim, Christine Youngwon; Crosby, Brian; Teti, Douglas M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The present study examined mothers' emotional availability (EA) during daytime free play and bedtime as a mediator of linkages between maternal nighttime sleep and infant-mother attachment. Participants included 153 mothers (85% White) with infants (53% female). When infants were 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, maternal sleep was assessed using…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Gatica-Domínguez, Giovanna; Rothenberg, Stephen J.; Torres-Sánchez, Luisa; Schnaas, Lourdes; Stein, Aryeh D.; Schmidt, Rebecca J.; López-Carrillo, Lizbeth – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
Prenatal folate and vitamin B[subscript 12] status have been linked to child neuropsychological development, but less is known about maternal genetic influences on this association. We conducted an exploratory longitudinal study of 181 mother--child pairs to assess whether maternal MTHFR 677C>T genotype modifies the association between maternal…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Child Development, Genetics, Mothers
Foley, Sarah; Devine, Rory T.; Hughes, Claire – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the development of caregiver mind-mindedness--defined as the propensity to see one's child as an agent with an independent mind--across the first 1,000 days of life. At four timepoints (i.e., third trimester of pregnancy, 4, 14, and 24 months postpartum), 384 first-time mothers (M[subscript age] = 32.55, SD = 3.63 years) and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Fathers, Infants
Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval; Natalia Jiménez-Luque – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
According to the Ecological Model, positive parenting depends on three factors: psychosocial context, the children's needs and parental competences. This cross-sectional study analyzes parental competences, perception of efficacy and parenting satisfaction, among Spanish fathers and mothers with young children aged 0-3 years, and examines their…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Competence, Fathers, Mothers