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Okumura, Yuko; Kobayashi, Tessei – Infant and Child Development, 2022
Literacy exposure checklists that assess parental picture book knowledge (Parental Title Checklist [PTC] and Parental Author Checklist [PAC]) have been developed as proxy measures for literacy environments. Although previous research suggests that parental picture book knowledge is a strong predictor of language skills for preschoolers older than…
Descriptors: Mothers, Picture Books, Knowledge Level, Educational Attainment
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Curby, Timothy W.; Brown, Chavaughn A.; Bassett, Hideko Hamada; Denham, Susanne A. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
Identifying and understanding the predictors of preliteracy skills can set the stage for success in a child's academic career. Recent literature has implicated social-emotional competence as a potential component in helping children learn preliteracy skills. To further understand the role of social-emotional competence in preliteracy, the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence, Predictor Variables
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Arnott, B.; Brown, A. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The importance of warm and democratic parenting styles for optimal social, emotional and cognitive outcomes in children over the age of five is well established. However, there is a dearth of literature exploring variations in parenting styles during infancy, despite many popular parenting books aimed at this period. The primary aim of this study…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Attitudes, Infants, Mothers
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Cipriano-Essel, Elizabeth; Skowron, Elizabeth A.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Teti, Douglas M. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This study examined the contribution of child temperament, parenting, and their interaction on inhibitory control development in a sample of maltreated and non-maltreated preschool children. One hundred and eighteen mother-child dyads were drawn from predominantly low-income, rural communities. Dyads participated in a laboratory session in which…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Preschool Children, Inhibition, Mothers
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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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Hall, Wendy A.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Silburn, Sven R.; Parsons, Deborah E.; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Behavioural sleep problems (childhood insomnias) can cause distress for both parents and children. This paper reports a model describing predictors of high sleep problem scores in a representative population-based random sample survey of non-Aboriginal singleton children born in 1995 and 1996 (1085 girls and 1129 boys) in Western Australia.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)