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High Emotionality to Infant Cry: Associations with Adult Attachment, Gender, and Age
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Rousseau, Sofie; Feldman, Tamar; Harroy, Lisa; Avisar, Nitzan; Wolf, Melissa; Bador, Keren; Frenkel, Tahl – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Caregivers' sensitive responses to infant cry have long-term consequences for adaptive child development. Although mounting evidence suggests that parents who experience high emotionality to infant cry respond less sensitively to infant cry, there is a dearth of knowledge on potential mechanisms underlying individual differences in emotionality to…
Descriptors: Crying, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Gender Differences
On the Importance of Being Flexible: Early Interrelations between Affective Flexibility, Executive Functions and Anxiety Symptoms in Preschoolers
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Marcu?, Oana; Martins, Eva Costa; Sassu, Raluca; Visu-Petra, Laura – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
When children are confronted with an emotional problem, affective flexibility mobilizes their cognitive and emotional resources to optimally address it. We investigated the contribution of executive functions to cognitive and affective flexibility in preschoolers. We assessed affective flexibility in 67 preschoolers (30 girls; M[subscript months]…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Predictor Variables
Not so Depressed but Unhappy Mothers: Korean Mothers' Mental Health and Infant Development
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Lee, Boram; Park, Hye Jun; Han, Gyoung Hae; Chang, Mina – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study examines the relationship between the psychological states of Korean mothers and early childhood development. In the study, 480 mothers were classified into three groups: cluster A mothers were happy and competent, cluster C were depressed and stressed, and cluster B were neither depressed nor happy. The tendency of infant developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Mental Health, Depression (Psychology)
Tuned in Parenting and Infant Sleep Patterns
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Priddis, Lynn E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This paper focuses on infant sleep behaviour that is of concern to mothers of young infants, and disruptive to families. It reports on the incidence of sleep problems in dyads that self-referred to a specialist clinic, and the relationship between the mother's sensitive responsiveness and infant sleep patterns in a sample of 65 Australian infants.…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
Children's Play Preferences: Implications for the Preschool Education
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Gmitrova, Vlasta; Podhajecka, Maria; Gmitrov, Juraj – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Previously we found in preschool that child-directed pretend play in small playing groups importantly improves cognitive competence in mixed-age environment and that the effect is based on close coupling between affective and cognitive domain. To foster affective and cognitive intertwining, it is reasonable to select the most favored pretend plays…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Education, Females, Family Environment
Infant and Toddler Interactions with a New Infant in a Group Environment.
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Jessee, Peggy O.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Investigated young children's social interactions with a baby in a group care setting. Observations of young children as they responded to an infant revealed differences in comforting, sharing, and cooperation according to age and sex. Also, toddlers' social interactions with the infant increased after the infant reached 18 months of age, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cooperation, Day Care