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Lengua, Liliana J.; Zalewski, Maureen; Fisher, Phil; Moran, Lyndsey – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The effects of low income on children's adjustment might be accounted for by disruptions to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis activity and to the development of effortful control. Using longitudinal data and a community sample of preschool-age children (N?=?306, 36-39?months) and their mothers, recruited to over-represent low-income…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Family Income, Physiology, Preschool Children
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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
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Salley, Brenda; Miller, Angela; Bell, Martha Ann – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Recent research has demonstrated that social responsiveness (comprised of social awareness, social information processing, reciprocal social communication, social motivation, and repetitive/restricted interests) is continuously distributed within the general population. In the present study, we consider temperament as a co-occurring source of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Age Differences, Young Children, Individual Differences
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Kokkinaki, Theano – Infant and Child Development, 2008
The present longitudinal and naturalistic study aims to investigate infants' and fathers' facial expressions of emotions during pauses preceding and following spontaneous early infant-father conversation. Studying emotional expressions in the course of pauses in early infant-father interaction is important because it may extend our knowledge on…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Foreign Countries, Fathers
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Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Doelger, Lisa; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Elucidating the genetic and environmental aetiology of effortful control (mother and father reports at two time points), attentional control (observer reports), and their associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms (mother and father reports) is the central focus of this paper. With a sample of twins in middle childhood…
Descriptors: Mothers, Psychopathology, Children, Personality
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Auerbach, Judith G.; Berger, Andrea; Atzaba-Poria, Naama; Arbelle, Shoshana; Cypin, Nira; Friedman, Adi; Landau, Rivka – Infant and Child Development, 2008
As part of a longitudinal investigation of infants at familial risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mothers and fathers independently completed temperament ratings on their infants. In this paper, we examine the 7-, 12-, and 25-month temperament of 58 boys, 36 of whom were considered at familial risk for ADHD and 22 of whom…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Personality, Fathers
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Gaertner, Bridget M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Infant and Child Development, 2008
This longitudinal study examined individual differences and correlates of focused attention when toddlers were approximately 18 months old (T1; n = 256) and a year later (T2; n = 230). Toddlers' attention and negative emotionality were reported by mothers and non-parental caregivers and rated globally by observers. Toddlers' focused attention also…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Measurement
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Dilworth-Bart, Janean E.; Khurshid, Ayesha; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Using Ecological Systems Theory and stage sequential modelling procedures for detecting mediation, this study examined how early developmental contexts impact preschoolers' performances on a measure of sustained attention and impulse control. Data from 1273 European-American and African-American participants in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care…
Descriptors: Income, Self Control, Family Environment, Attention Span