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Dyadic Flexibility in Early Parent-Child Interactions: Relations with Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Negativity and Behaviour Problems
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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Albrecht, Erin C.; Kemp, Christine J. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Lower levels of parent-child affective flexibility indicate risk for children's problem outcomes. This short-term longitudinal study examined whether maternal depressive symptoms were related to lower levels of dyadic affective flexibility and positive affective content in mother-child problem-solving interactions at age 3.5?years…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Negative Attitudes, Behavior Problems
Sustained Attention Development during the Toddlerhood to Preschool Period: Associations with Toddlers' Emotion Regulation Strategies and Maternal Behaviour
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Graziano, Paulo A.; Calkins, Susan D.; Keane, Susan P. – Infant and Child Development, 2011
The current study examined the role of maternal behaviour and toddlers' emotion regulation strategies in the development of children's sustained attention abilities. Participants for this study included 447 children (232 girls) obtained from three different cohorts participating in a larger ongoing longitudinal study. When the children were 2…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence
Mother-Child Affect and Emotion Socialization Processes across the Late Preschool Period: Predictions of Emerging Behaviour Problems
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Newland, Rebecca P.; Crnic, Keith A. – Infant and Child Development, 2011
The current study examined concurrent and longitudinal relations between maternal negative affective behaviour and child negative emotional expression in preschool age children with (n=96) or without (n=126) an early developmental risk, as well as the predictions of later behaviour problems. Maternal negative affective behaviour, child…
Descriptors: Socialization, Structural Equation Models, Affective Behavior, Mothers
Parents' Feelings towards Their Adoptive and Non-Adoptive Children
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Glover, Marshaun B.; Mullineaux, Paula Y.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Petrill, Stephen A. – Infant and Child Development, 2010
In the current study, we examined parent gender differences in feelings (negativity and positivity) and perceptions of child behavioural and emotional problems in adoptive and biological parent-child dyads. In a sample of 85 families, we used a novel within-family adoption design in which one child was adopted and one child was a biological child…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Adjustment (to Environment)
Early Manifestations of Childhood Depression: Influences of Infant Temperament and Parental Depressive Symptoms
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Gartstein, Maria A.; Bateman, Alison E. – Infant and Child Development, 2008
In this longitudinal study, 83 parents of infants between 3 and 12 months completed questionnaires assessing demographic information, infant temperament, and maternal depression. When these children were at least 18 months of age, parents completed follow-up questionnaires assessing toddler temperament and depression-like symptoms. We were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Personality Traits, Parents