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Paternal and Maternal Predictors of Affective and Cognitive Involvement of Three-Year-Old Chilean Children in Chile (Predictores del involucramiento afectivo y cognitivo de padres y madres con sus hijas/os de tres años en Chile)
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Aldoney, Daniela; Prieto, Fernanda – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
Maternal and paternal involvement are an important predictor of child development. In the current study, we describe the cognitive and affective involvement of parents with their three-year-old children in a sample of 115 Chilean parents of medium/low socioeconomic status. Additionally, we analysed differences in the level of involvement of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Mothers, Fathers
Family Risk and Externalizing Problems in Chilean Children: Mediation by Harsh Parenting and Emotional Support
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Ugarte, Elisa; Narea, Marigen; Aldoney, Daniela; Weissman, David G.; Hastings, Paul D. – Child Development, 2021
Latent class analysis and multigroup mediation were used with 8,860 families in Chile to identify risk groups varying in socioeconomic status, family structure, and maternal depression, to determine whether profiles differed in children's development of externalizing problems (EP) from 35 to 61 months, and maternal parenting that predicted EP.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Socioeconomic Status, Family Structure
Mentalization in Chilean Educational Staff with 12-Month-Old Children: Does It Make a Difference in Relation to What Children Receive at Home?
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Farkas, Chamarrita; Strasser, Katherine; Badilla, María Gabriela; Santelices, María Pía – Early Education and Development, 2017
Parental mentalizing, which is the capacity to understand behavior in terms of mental states and to reflect this back to a child through speech, is a key construct in child development. Adults with high mentalization promote children's secure attachment, mentalization and self-regulation. This study describes this competency in a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology)
Maternal Sensitivity in a Developing Society: The Context of Urban Poverty and Infant Chronic Undernutrition.
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Valenzuela, Marta – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Used home observations and laboratory procedures with 85 Chilean mothers and infants to examine the association between infants' chronic undernutrition and maternal sensitivity, sociodemographic variables, and infants' play and problem solving. Found that maternal sensitivity was correlated with maternal education, maternal weight, marital…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Context Effect, Developing Nations