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Sun, Anqi; Peng, Weiwei; Ansari, Arya; Li, Xile; Xu, Yue; Yan, Ni – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The current study addressed whether mothers' explicitly expressed and implicitly held attitudes towards infant crying (n = 71) differ with each other and how these two types of attitudes relate to mothers' depressive symptoms during the transition to parenthood. Neither mothers' explicit nor implicit attitudes towards infant crying predicted…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Crying, Parent Attitudes
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Bryant, Lindsey M.; Duncan, Robert J.; Marceau, Kristine; Schmitt, Sara A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The current study examines the extent to which associations between internalizing problems, body mass index (BMI), and language skills from early (36 months) to late childhood (fifth grade) are due to relatively stable between-child differences, time-specific correlations, or cross-lagged paths. Data from the NICHD study, Early Child Care and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Body Composition, Language Skills
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Manor-Binyamini, Iris; Benatov, Joy; Abu-Kaf, Sarah – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: This study compared Bedouin mothers of adolescents with developmental disabilities (DD) and Bedouin mothers of typically developing adolescents using measures of social support, depression, and somatisation. It further examined whether social support and raising a child with DD would predict maternal depression and somatisation beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Mothers, Adolescents
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Krahn, Harvey J. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger [right arrow] depression; depression [right arrow] anger; anger [left right arrow] depression) and a between-persons differences only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Correlation, Psychological Patterns
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Fagan, Jay – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey--Birth cohort ("N" = 6,450), the present study hypothesized that 48-month-old children of divorced mothers would score lower on emerging literacy than the children of formerly cohabiting mothers, compared with the children of mothers in stable marriage. The children of mothers who…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Divorce
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Paulson, James F.; Dauber, Sarah E.; Leiferman, Jenn A. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The role of depression in nonresident fathers' involvement with their infant children is poorly understood. A three-factor model of father involvement was evaluated, and its association with parental relationship quality and depressive symptoms in both parents were tested. Data on 569 families from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study were used.…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Fathers, Parent Influence
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V. – Infancy, 2007
Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Fathers, Predictor Variables