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Hebert, Heather; Swank, Paul; Smith, Karen; Landry, Susan – Early Education and Development, 2004
Patterns of development in language and play for full term and preterm children from 6 to 54 months and the effects of maternal parenting strategies (i.e., maintaining attentional focus, use of directiveness) were examined. Significant risk differences in the growth of both language and play were found. The high risk children were more likely to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Language Acquisition, Mothers
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Spinrad, Tracy L.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Donelan-McCall, Nancy; Turner, Laura – Social Development, 2004
Recently, there has been a great deal of research on the socialization of children's emotions and self-regulation. In the present study, the specific strategies that mothers use to help their young children regulate their emotional responses were examined using a longitudinal design. Forty-three mother-toddler pairs were observed when toddlers…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Mothers, Toddlers, Emotional Response
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hendricks, Charlene; Haynes, O. Maurice; Painter, Kathleen M. – Infancy, 2007
This study examined unique associations of multiple distal context variables (family socioeconomic status [SES], maternal employment, and paternal parenting) and proximal maternal (personality, intelligence, and knowledge; behavior, self-perceptions, and attributions) and child (age, gender, representation, language, and sociability)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Multivariate Analysis
National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. Early Child Care Network. – 1997
Does early child care hinder or enhance infants' and toddlers' social and cognitive development? This longitudinal study investigated whether: (1) child care is related to qualities of mother-child interaction and the child's cognitive and language development in the first 3 years of life; (2) the child care environment interacts with the home…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Day Care, Day Care Effects, Early Experience
Brownell, Celia A.; Etheridge, Wendy; Hungerford, Anne; Kelley, Sue – 1997
Self-regulation is a major developmental accomplishment that begins in infancy and continues throughout childhood. This study focused on early socialization of self-regulation, and examined whether there was a common core of self-regulation in young children cutting across contexts and age, and whether the same maternal behaviors operate similarly…
Descriptors: Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages, Emotional Response, Longitudinal Studies
Harwood, Robin L. – 1991
This two-part investigation attempted to formulate culturally sensitive definitions of desirable and undesirable attachment behavior. Participants were 3 sociocultural groups of 16 mothers each: middle-class Anglo mothers, lower-class Anglo mothers, and lower-class Puerto Rican mothers living on the U.S. mainland. All mothers had at least 1 child…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
Jorde, Paula – 1984
The families of 10 children enrolled in a class for 2-year-olds at the Mills College Children's School participated in a study of parent attitudes about separation and parental behaviors that minimized separation anxiety and facilitated a smooth transition from home to school environments. The sample included nine mothers who were married and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Influence, Interviews, Measures (Individuals)
Botor, Celeste O. – 1987
Part of a larger, longitudinal study conducted from 1974 through 1979 investigating differences in the mother-child relationship among Japanese, Thais, and Filipinos, this paper reports findings on the Filipino sub-sample. Findings concern the socioemotional behavior of Filipino children, expectations of their mothers, extent of children's…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Expectation
Adamakos, Harry; And Others – 1985
A longitudinal study investigated maternal social support and its relationship to mother/child stress, the amount of stimulation provided the child, and the child's cognitive development. The data presented here represent the 18 to 24 month follow-up on a subset of families studied in 1981 and 1982 concerning current maternal social support and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Followup Studies, High Risk Persons
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Fagan, Jay – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Compared the involvement of 28 mothers and their spouses who worked varying distances from their day-care centers. Found that mothers were significantly more involved in the center than fathers, even after statistically controlling for distance to the workplace and occupational status. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Day Care, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents
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Anderson-Yockel, Julie; Haynes, William O. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
Ten white and 10 African American working-class mother-toddler dyads were videotaped during joint book readings and compared. Many similarities between cultural groups were found. Differences included African American mothers who used fewer questioning behaviors; white children who produced more question-related communications; and African…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Interpersonal Communication
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Rimmerman, A.; And Others – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1990
This study, with 60 mothers of infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities, examined the effectiveness of using videotapes as part of a group parent education program. Parents in the group that saw the videotapes reported less perceived stress, a more positive view of their child's functioning, and higher levels of perceived belonging…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Audience Response, Developmental Disabilities, Group Discussion
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Lieberman, Alicia F.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Infant-mother dyads classified as anxiously attached intervention and control or securely attached control were compared. Intervention toddlers were lower than anxious controls in avoidance, resistance, and anger, and higher in partnership with mother. Intervention mothers were higher in empathy and interactiveness. No differences between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Anxiety, At Risk Persons
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Rescorla, Leslie; Merrin, Lisa – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Investigates communicative intent in 31 toddlers who were slow to talk and 32 normally developing toddlers matched on SES, age, and nonverbal cognitive ability. Communicative intent was studied during free play, both with the mother and with an unfamiliar examiner. Late talkers relied more on nonword vocalization, gestures, and gesture/oral…
Descriptors: Body Language, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
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Troster, Heinrich – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
This study found that 51 mothers of children (aged 8-87 months) with visual impairments experienced more stress than did 47 mothers of typical children, particularly in areas involving the children's behavior and when the children had multiple disabilities. The major resource for the families was the availability of social support. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Coping, Infants, Mothers
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