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Speck, Bailey; Isenhour, Jennifer; Gao, Mengyu; Conradt, Elisabeth; Crowell, Sheila E.; Raby, K. Lee – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Research suggests that women's autonomic nervous system responses to infant cries capture processes that affect their parenting behaviors. The aim of this study was to build on prior work by testing whether pregnant women's autonomic responses to an unfamiliar infant crying also predict their infants' emerging regulation abilities. Participants…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Females, Infants, Crying
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Karaskiewicz, Chloe L.; Witczak, Lynea R.; Lau, Allison R.; Dufek, Madison E.; Bales, Karen L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Relationships support social animals' health, but maintaining relationships is challenging. When transitioning to parenthood, new parents balance pair-bond maintenance with infant care. We studied pair-bond maintenance via affiliation in 22 adult titi monkey pairs ("Plecturocebus cupreus") for 16 months centered around their first…
Descriptors: Animals, Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Infants
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Brenda Jones Harden; Tiffany L. Martoccio; Colleen M. Morrison; Shelby Brown – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Research has documented elevated experiences of racial discrimination among African American families, and its adverse impacts on their psychological well-being. However, most studies have investigated the experiences of and consequences for older children and adults. The goal of the current study was to examine the relations among mothers'…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, African American Family, Perinatal Influences, Infants
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Sujan, Ayesha C.; Class, Quetzal A.; Rickert, Martin E.; Van Hulle, Carol; D'Onofrio, Brian M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Previous research assessing consequences of interpregnancy intervals (IPIs) on child development is mixed. Utilizing a population-based US sample (n = 5339), we first estimate the associations between background characteristics (e.g. sociodemographic and maternal characteristics) and short ([less than or equal to]1 year) and long (>3 years)…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Infants, Pregnancy