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Allison Frost; Elissa Scherer; Esther O. Chung; John A. Gallis; Kate Sanborn; Yunji Zhou; Ashley Hagaman; Katherine LeMasters; Siham Sikander; Elizabeth Turner; Joanna Maselko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Maternal depression is a global public health concern with far-reaching impacts on child development, yet our understanding of mechanisms remains incomplete. This study examined whether parenting mediates the association between maternal depression and child outcomes. Participants included 841 rural Pakistani mother-child dyads (50% female).…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parenting Styles, Child Development

Sheila Lopez; Nicole R. Giuliani; Anna Cecilia McWhirter – Grantee Submission, 2024
Self-regulation in early childhood, including the ability to regulate one's own thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, are associated with a range of outcomes including academic performance, and social development. Research has extensively examined the effects of mother's parental involvement and parenting experiences, such as parenting stress and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
Angelica Alonso; S. Alexa McDorman; Rachel R. Romeo – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
It is well established that parent-child dyadic synchrony (e.g., mutual emotions, behaviors) can support development across cognitive and socioemotional domains. The advent of simultaneous two-brain "hyperscanning" (i.e., measuring the brain activity of two individuals at the same time) allows further insight into dyadic "neural…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development, Nonverbal Communication
Noora Hyysalo; Minna Sorsa; Eeva Holmberg; Riikka Korja; Elysia Poggi Davis; Eveliina Mykkänen; Marjo Flykt – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Maternal substance use and unpredictable maternal sensory signals may affect child development, but no studies have examined them together. We explored the unpredictability, frequency and duration of maternal sensory signals in 52 Caucasian mother-child dyads, 27 with and 25 without maternal substance use. We also examined the association between…
Descriptors: Mothers, Substance Abuse, Child Development, Correlation
Parents' Reflective Functioning and Stress: The Associations with Preschoolers' Social Understanding
Emiddia Longobardi; Mara Morelli; Matilde Brunetti; Stefania Sette; Pietro Spataro; Fiorenzo Laghi – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Social understanding competence develops in sensitive and co-regulating caregiver interactions. Parental reflective functioning (PRF) and parenting stress can affect children's social understanding. This study investigated if children's social understanding was associated with PRF and parenting stress. Parents of 305 Italian children aged from 24…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Stress Variables, Parent Attitudes, Interpersonal Competence
Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Klein, Pnina; Atira, Gila; Ben-Eliezer, Ruhama – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Infants and toddlers spend a substantial amount of their time in out-of-home care, and are thus being tended to not only by their mothers but also by their caregivers. It is therefore of considerable importance to study the effects of caregiver-infant compared to mother-infant interactions. To address this issue, first, various variables of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
Annie Bernier; Sylvana M. Côté; Rose Lapolice Thériault; Gabrielle Leclerc – Developmental Science, 2024
Childcare services are widely used by families and thereby exert an important influence on many young children. Yet, little research has examined whether childcare may impact the development of child executive functioning (EF), one of the pillars of cognitive development in early childhood. Furthermore, despite persisting hypotheses that childcare…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Care
Pillinger, Claire; Vardy, Emma J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Background: Dialogic reading (DR; Whitehurst et al., 1988) is an evidence-based intervention that promotes children's active participation in shared reading (Towson, 2016; Urbani, 2020; WWC, 2007, 2010). Since the development of DR, there has been a proliferation of studies evaluating the conditions and populations with which it is effective.…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Dialogs (Language), Young Children, Literacy
Stavrou, Natassa Economidou; Ntani, Eleutheria – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2023
Parents' perceptions and beliefs regarding the benefits of early childhood music classes for toddlers are a significant determining factor in their decision to introduce music into their children's lives. The current study aims to explore the beliefs and experiences of 12 mothers attending parent-toddler music classes in an early childhood music…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Program Effectiveness
Kolak, Amy M.; Dean, Caitlin H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This multi-method study examined mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation during parent--child interactions and toddlers' moral regulation (assessed via parent reports) as predictors of their executive functioning skills approximately 2½ years later. Forty children (23 girls and 17 boys) and their parents participated in both timepoints.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Mothers, Fathers
Onyango, Silas; Brentani, Alexandra; Fink, Günther – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Globally, an estimated 15 million children are born prematurely each year, resulting in a high burden of under-five mortality and neurodevelopmental disability. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a key intervention to support the development of preterm infants. However, evidence on the impact of KMC in routine care settings remains limited. This paper…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Infant Care, Child Health, Mothers
Marissa Hofstee; Ruben G. Fukkink; Joyce Endendijk; Jorg Huijding; Bauke van der Velde; Maja Dekovic – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Given the substantial increase in children attending center-based childcare over the past decades, the consequences of center-based childcare for children's development have gained more attention in developmental research. However, the relation between center-based childcare and children's neurocognitive development remains relatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Rodrigues, Michelle; Sokolovic, Nina; Madigan, Sheri; Luo, Yiqi; Silva, Victoria; Misra, Shruti; Jenkins, Jennifer – Child Development, 2021
In a series of meta-analyses, paternal sensitivity was associated with children's (age range: 7 months-9 years) overall cognitive functioning (N = 3,193; k = 23; r = 0.19), including language skills (k = 9; r = 0.21), cognitive ability (k = 9; r = 0.18), and executive function (k = 8; r = 0.19). Paternal sensitivity was not associated with…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
Ying Li; Talia Q. Halleck; Laura Evans; Paras Bhagwat Bassuk; Leiana Paz; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira – Developmental Science, 2024
In this study, we aimed to determine the role of parental praise and child affect in the neural processes underlying parent-child interactions, utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning. We characterized the dynamic changes in interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) between parents and children (4-6 years old, n = 40…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Child Behavior
Juan Camilo Cristancho; Carolina Maldonado-Carreño; Drew Bailey; Greg Duncan; Ervyn Norza – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/context: Exposure to community-level violence in childhood is a strong predictor of developmental and cognitive outcomes. Several systematic reviews, as well as meta-analysis have documented how being exposed to violent crimes in developed and developing countries predicts externalizing and internalizing symptoms (Löfving-Gupta, et al.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Victims of Crime, Environmental Influences