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Jia, Chenglong; Zhou, Tong; Shen, Yuan; Mahajan, Nitya; Qin, Jinliang – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Children develop expectations of caregivers' support-giving during early-life interactions. The present study examined whether caregivers' responsiveness would influence young children's expectations of caregivers' support-giving behavior and willingness under different situational stress levels. We manipulated the caregivers' responsiveness and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Responses, Caregiver Attitudes
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Rui Yang; Yufei Gu; Lixian Cui; Xuan Li; Niobe Way; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Xinyin Chen; Sumie Okazaki; Guangzhen Zhang; Zongbao Liang; Theodore E. A. Waters – Developmental Science, 2024
Leveraging data from a longitudinal study of Chinese families (n = 364), this research aims to understand the role of secure base script knowledge as a cognitive mechanism by which early caregiving experiences inform adolescents' friendship quality and feelings of loneliness. Results showed that observed maternal sensitivity at 14 and 24 months…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Experience, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Degotardi, Sheila; Han, Feifei; Hu, Jiangbo – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study compares the mental-state talk of infant educators in Australia and China in order to determine the nuanced differences in the ways that they use this talk with the infants in their room. Participants are 44 native English-speaking Australian educators from centres in Sydney, Australia and 30 native Chinese-speaking infant educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
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Rodrigues, Michelle; Schneider, Alessandra; Sokolovic, Nina; Brunsek, Ashley; Oré, Beatriz; Perlman, Michal; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Efforts to monitor and improve responsive caregiving for young children, because of its importance for child development, are part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Two brief observational measures of responsive caregiving have been developed and validated (Responsive Interactions for Learning-parent [RIFL-P] and educator…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Measures (Individuals), Caregiver Child Relationship
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Luo, Renfu; Jia, Fang; Yue, Ai; Zhang, Linxiu; Lyu, Qijia; Shi, Yaojiang; Yang, Meredith; Medina, Alexis; Kotb, Sarah; Rozelle, Scott – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aims to investigate the developmental status of rural Chinese children, the extent of interactive parenting they receive, and the relation between the two. A sample of 448 six to eighteen-month-old children and their caregivers were randomly selected from two rural counties in Hebei and Yunnan provinces. According the third edition of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Development, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Tardif, Twila; Wan, Ching – Early Education and Development, 2001
Investigated the characteristics of adult-child disputes in 10 Mandarin-speaking families in Mainland China. Found that 2-year-olds' most frequent disagreement strategies included direct refusals, protests, and silence. Adults seldom used silence or refusals but used direct positive requests, expressions of dissatisfaction, and prohibitions when…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Change Strategies, Child Role
Yajun, Zhou; Yi, Liao; Champagne, Susan – 1999
With the aim of tailoring future programming decisions to local conditions and concerns, an ethnographic study was commissioned to examine childrearing practices in a small middle income village in Hebei Province, China. The research was designed to learn about the concerns and goals of child care providers, and about the strategic thinking and…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Health