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Vocal Emotion Expressions in Infant-Directed Singing: The Impact of War Trauma and Maternal Mental Health and the Consequences on Infant Development
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Punamäki, Raija-Leena; Vänskä, Mervi; Quota, Samir R.; Perko, Kaisa; Diab, Safwat Y. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Maternal singing is considered vital to infant well-being. This study focuses on vocal emotion expressions in infant-directed singing among mothers in war conditions. It examines the questions: (a) how traumatic war events and mental health problems are associated with the content and valence of vocal emotion expressions and (b) how these emotion…
Descriptors: Infants, Singing, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Infant Developmental Outcomes: A Family Systems Perspective
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Parfitt, Ylva; Pike, Alison; Ayers, Susan – Infant and Child Development, 2014
The aim of the current study was to examine whether parental mental health, parent-infant relationship, infant characteristics and couple's relationship factors were associated with the infant's development. Forty-two families took part at three time points. The first, at 3?months postpartum, involved a video recorded observation (CARE-index) of…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Parent Teaching Focus and Toddlers' Learning from An Infant DVD
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Fender, Jodi G.; Richert, Rebekah A.; Robb, Michael B.; Wartella, Ellen – Infant and Child Development, 2010
This study examined parents' and toddlers' talk and viewing behaviour while co-viewing an educational infant DVD focused on teaching language. Sixty-four 12- to 25-month-old infants viewed a DVD in a laboratory with their parents. A cluster analysis on parent talk revealed three groups: High, Moderate, and Low Teaching Focus parents. The High…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Toddlers, Parents, Multivariate Analysis
Emotional Vitality in Infancy as a Predictor of Cognitive and Language Abilities in Toddlerhood
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Moreno, Amanda J.; Robinson, JoAnn L. – Infant and Child Development, 2005
Previous work by our group has shown that infant emotional vitality (EV), the lively expression of shared emotion both positive and negative, predicts cognitive and language abilities in toddlerhood. Specifically, infants who demonstrated a pattern of high emotional expression combined with high bids to their caregivers, fared significantly better…
Descriptors: Infants, Caregivers, Expressive Language, Cognitive Ability