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Melzer, Dawn K.; Palermo, Cori A. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
The present study investigated the relationship between complexity of pretend play, initiation of pretense activities, and mental state utterances used during play. Children 3 to 4 years of age were videotaped while engaging in pretend play with a parent. The videotapes were coded according to mental state utterances (i.e. desire, emotion,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Usage, Correlation, Play
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Son, Seung-Hee Claire; Tineo, Maria F. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
This study examined associations among low-income mothers' use of attention-getting utterances during shared book reading, preschoolers' verbal engagement and visual attention to reading, and their early literacy skills (N = 51). Mother-child shared book reading sessions were videotaped and coded for each utterance, including attention talk,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
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Behrens, Kazuko Y.; Umemura, Tomo – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This study examined differences in children's responses to their family photographs within a sample of Japanese 6-year-olds ("N"?=?44), exploring associations with their mothers' attachment status. The differences in children's photo reactions were captured by a 5-point continuous scale to rate how engaged children were and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Attachment Behavior, Mothers