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Direct linkMaría del Pilar Montealegre-Ramón; María Teresa Martínez-Fuentes; Julio Pérez-López; Purificación Sierra-García – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aims to clarify the relation between maternal sensitivity and infant attachment security during the first two years of life. A systematic search has been carried out in six databases (Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus and Psychology and Behavioural) between January 2010 and February 2023. The terms used for the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Jessica L. Greenlee; Claire R. Stelter; Emily Hickey; Casey Burton; Megan Carlson; Marcia A. Winter – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Purpose: This qualitative study examines autistic adolescents' perception of the quality of their relationship with their parent using the Three Minute Speech Sample. Methods: Twenty autistic youth (13-17 years; 83% male) spoke, uninterrupted, for three minutes about their thoughts and feelings regarding their mothers. Audio-recorded speech…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Beier, Loreen; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
While gender differences in mathematical competencies favoring boys are well researched for school and late Kindergarten age, much less is known about their earlier development. Using data from the NEPS Newborn Cohort study, this paper focuses on 4 year-old children and the effects of the numerical and literacy stimulation during mother-child…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Download full textHale Savci; Ferda Aysan – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the punishment behaviors used by mothers in the process of teaching behaviors to their children. For this purpose, data were collected from 26 mothers with at least one child between the ages of 3 and 11 using a semi-structured interview form. The collected data were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Discipline, Parenting Styles, Violence
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Murugesan Krupa; Prakash Boominathan; Swapna Sebastian; Padmasani Venkat Raman – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study profiled various levels of engagement and related communication behaviours among 50 Asian Indian Tamil autistic children (AUT) and their mothers. The interaction was compared with two groups of mother-child dyads of non-autistic (NA) children, 50 in each group, matched for chronological age (CA), and for language level (LL). Results…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Children
Carolus, Amy E.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Lengua, Lilliana J.; Rowe, Meredith L.; Sheridan, Margaret A.; Zalewski, Maureen; Moran, Lyndsey; Romeo, Rachel R. – Developmental Science, 2024
Conversational turn-taking is a complex communicative skill that requires both linguistic and executive functioning (EF) skills, including processing input while simultaneously forming and inhibiting responses until one's turn. Adult-child turn-taking predicts children's linguistic, cognitive, and socioemotional development. However, little is…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Interaction, Executive Function
Mackenzie S. Swirbul; Megan Shahnooshi; Rachel Ho; Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
Infants begin to produce abstract "math" words -- such as numbers (e.g., "two"), spatial terms (e.g., "down"), and magnitude words (e.g., "more") -- during their second postnatal year. Math words, as all words, are likely learned in the home setting during interactions with caregivers. However, everyday…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Language Usage
Diana L. Abarca; Jacqueline Towson; Humberto López Castillo – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
Adolescent mothers (AMs) often experience limited academic and financial attainment and higher rates of mental health disorders, which may affect their relationships with their children. Although children of AMs are at higher risk for developmental delays, there is no clear evidence of the relationships between mother characteristics and child…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Mothers, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
Xiaoyan Li; Yonghan Peng; Xinjun Zheng – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study tested the role of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)'s conversational expansion in mediating between mothers' descriptive language and children with ASD's conversational repair, and whether this mediation was moderated by the relative complexity of mother-child language. Videos of forty children with ASD engaging in various…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Mothers, Language Usage
E. Sandra Byers; Alexa El-Khoury; Heather A. Sears – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Many mothers do not communicate with their adolescent about sexual health topics due to perceived barriers. Our goal in this study was to shed light on the activities mothers engage in to prepare for sexual health discussions with their young adolescents. We also examined the extent to which mothers' past sexual communication behaviour and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Sex Education
Meirong Chen; Ting Lan; Yan Jiang – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
To explore the effects of family functioning on problem behaviour among Chinese preschool children, 1,025 preschool parents were assessed using the family assessment device, child problem behaviour scale, and parent-child relationship scale through a random sampling method. Based on the McMaster model of family functioning and the Process Person…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Hatice Gül Öztas; Yesim Aksoy Derya – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study was conducted to determine the effect of biological nurturing on breastfeeding success and self-efficacy in primiparous women. This randomized controlled study was conducted with 130 mothers who had a caesarean section (65 experimental, 65 control). However, it was determined that experiment group had statistically higher LATCH score…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mothers, Infants, Nutrition
Nicholas A. Smith; Christine A. Hammans; Timothy J. Vallier; Bob McMurray – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Talkers adapt their speech according to the demands of their listeners and the communicative context, enhancing the properties of the signal (pitch, intensity) and/or properties of the code (enhancement of phonemic contrasts). This study asked how mothers adapt their child-directed speech (CDS) in ways that might serve the immediate goals…
Descriptors: Child Language, Speech Communication, Acoustics, Phonetics
Christine Michel; Daniel Matthes; Stefanie Hoehl – Child Development, 2024
This study investigates infants' neural and behavioral responses to maternal ostensive signals during naturalistic mother-infant interactions and their effects on object encoding. Mothers familiarized their 9- to 10-month-olds (N = 35, 17 females, mainly White, data collection: 2018-2019) with objects with or without mutual gaze, infant-directed…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infant Behavior
