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Mosier, Christine E.; Rogoff, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study examined the idea that toddlers in some communities are accorded a privileged status in which they are allowed what they want, assumed not yet to "understand" how to cooperate. U.S. middle-class and Guatemalan Mayan mothers and 3- to 5-year-old siblings were observed while the siblings and toddlers (14-20 months) both sought…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Siblings, Mothers, Maya (People)
Herring, S.; Gray, K.; Taffe, J.; Tonge, B.; Sweeney, D.; Einfeld, S. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Background: Behavioural and emotional problems occur at a high rate in children and adolescents with intellectual disability, often from a young age. Some studies have indicated that children and adolescents with autism present with even higher rates. Less is known about the presentation, development and family impact of these difficulties in…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Toddlers, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Eshbaugh, Elaine M. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2006
This study investigated predictors of depression in 278 African-American, 206 European-American, and 122 Hispanic teen mothers approximately 36 months after the birth while controlling for depression 14 months after the birth. Predictor variables were age, ethnicity, mastery, knowledge of development, and parental distress. Younger teens were not…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Intervention, Mothers, Toddlers
Furman, Erna – 1985
Exploring the stresses and dangers substitute mothering may pose to a toddler's personality development, this paper points out behavioral hallmarks of toddlerhood, describes the main developmental tasks toddlers have to master, and discusses factors that facilitate healthy development during this phase. Special emphasis is given to the most…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Day Care
Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – 1989
Discussion explores the role of guilt in depression, arguing that "how children come to view themselves as pervasively responsible for bad things that happen" is a key element in the social transmission of affect that involves guilt. "Guilt" basically is an adaptive emotion that involves thoughts of remorse or responsibility…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Early Childhood Education
Velleman, Shelley L. – 1987
This longitudinal pilot study, which extends Veneziano's (1987) work on phonetically and semantically contingent maternal response types, compared, microanalytically and globally, maternal response types and mother-child dyadic interactions of normally developing and Down syndrome children. Participants were three normally developing infants, five…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Downs Syndrome, Infants
Ryan, Kathleen; And Others – 1985
In 1981 and 1982, pre- and postnatal medical, financial, demographic, and maternal social support data were collected from 220 lower socioeconomic status (SES), "high risk" mothers and their newborn infants. An analysis of data on the oldest 100 children in the sample found that 14 families had been referred to a children's protective services…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, High Risk Persons, Home Programs, Intellectual Development
National Council of Jewish Women, New York, NY. Research Inst. for Innovation in Education. – 1976
This is a report on Home Activities for Toddlers and their Families (HATAF), an ongoing Israeli intervention program designed to provide home-based, educationally enriching activities for disadvantaged preschoolers and to enable mothers to participate in enhancing the intellectual development of their children. The report describes two sample…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Home Instruction, Home Programs

McCollum, Jeanette A. – Child Care, Health and Development, 1988
Game playing between a mother and father and their handicapped infant/toddler twin sons was studied over a three-year period. Findings included: (1) the parents spent almost 30 percent of their interaction time in games; and (2) the father's style was faster-paced, with more abrupt beginnings/endings than the mother's style. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childrens Games, Fathers, Infants
Haynes-Seman, Clare – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1987
A failure-to-thrive 30-month-old was observed in interaction with his unempathic mother, showing the pathological consequences of his openness to social influences (i.e., the child's attachment to a sadistic mother could later produce masochistic tendencies which could be reenacted to reproduce the feelings associated with mother's affection).…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education
Saba, Jennifer Fetner; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine – 2003
This study examined the relationship between a mother's childrearing history, perceived social support, and maternal empathy and the quality of engagement with her child during play. The study also focused on the roles of social support as a moderating variable and maternal empathy as a mediating variable in the relationship. Participants were 77…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Blacks, Child Rearing, Emotional Experience
Fuller, Bruce; Chang, Yueh-Wen; Suzuki, Sawako; Kagan, Sharon Lynn – 2001
Against the backdrop of evolving welfare policies in California following the approval of federal welfare reforms in 1996, the Growing Up in Poverty Project is examining how single mothers and their children fare as they move from cash aid to jobs, the types and quality of child care arrangements selected, and if mothers' access to child care…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education

Howes, Carollee; Hamilton, Claire E. – Child Development, 1992
Children's attachment to their mother, measured by the Strange Situation procedure, reunion behavior at four years of age, and the Attachment Q-Set, was stable from infancy through preschool. The quality of teacher-child relationships, measured by the Attachment Q-Set, was stable if the teacher remained the same. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Mobility

Hendriks, Alexander H. C.; De Moor, Jan M. H.; Oud, Johan H. L.; Savelberg, Martine M. H. W. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2000
Eighty-one Dutch mothers and 67 fathers completed a questionnaire developed to measure perceived changes in well-being of parents with a toddler with motor disabilities who participated in a therapeutic toddler class. Parents perceived a positive change in well-being 10 months after their child started participation. The impact was greater for…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Family Problems, Fathers, Foreign Countries

McCollum, Jeanette A.; Chen, Yu-Jun – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
A study compared Euro-American and Taiwanese mothers' descriptions of the social competence benefits of early parent-child interaction and what they do during interactions to achieve these benefits. Visual analysis of probability patterns indicated that mothers in each group thought somewhat differently about their roles in developing different…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence