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Toddlers' Cortisol Levels in Childcare and at Home
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Kathrin Nystad; May Britt Drugli; Stian Lydersen; Håvard Horndalen Tveit; Ratib Lekhal; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Measuring toddlers' cortisol levels both in childcare and at home and their relation to child- and childcare-related factors may help to identify stress-inducing childcare practices and children who are more vulnerable to stress in childcare. Accordingly, toddlers' (n = 320, 51.2% female, mean age = 26.8 months) cortisol levels…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Family Environment, Child Care Centers, Physiology
Dressing Toddlers at the Emmi Pikler Nursery School in Budapest: Caregiver Instrumental Behavioral Pattern
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Belasko, Maitane; Herrán, Elena; Anguera, M. Teresa – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The goal of this research is to analyze the instrumental behavior of the caregiver at the Emmi Pikler nursery school in Budapest while dressing children from two to three years old to go outdoors to play in the garden. In order to study this routine in its usual context, the observational methodology has been chosen, adopting an "ad hoc"…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Play, Preschools, Foreign Countries
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Influence of Peers on Exploration during Play
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Wade, Shirlene; Kidd, Celeste – Cognitive Science, 2018
Certain social context features (e.g., maternal presence) are known to increase young children's exploration, a key process by which they learn. Yet limited research investigates the role of social context, especially peer presence, in exploration across development. We investigate whether the effect of peer presence on exploration is mediated by…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Play, Child Development, Peer Influence
Behaviour Patterns in Daily Mother-Child Separations: Possible Opportunities for Stress Reduction
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Klein, Pnina S.; Kraft, Ravit R.; Shohet, Cilly – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Despite the abundance of research on attachment and on the effects of separation, very little research examines the actual processes of separation occurring daily when mothers leave their children (age 6-18 months) in out-of-home group care. In the current study, this everyday process of separation was observed for three months…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Toddlers, Child Caregivers
The Behavioral and Linguistic Interactions of Specifically Language-delayed and Normal Boys with Their Mothers.
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Cunningham, Charles E.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Addressing methodological limitations, Study One compared parent-child interactions of normal and language-delayed children; Study Two investigated whether mothers adjust the length of their utterances to the child's ability to comprehend or to produce language; Study Three probed interactional variables associated with variations in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comprehension
Assessment of Prelinguistic Behaviors in Deaf Children: Parents as Collaborators.
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Dromi, Esther – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2003
Assessment of the prelinguistic behaviors of 43 deaf children (ages 8 to 49 months) of hearing parents in Israel found only partial resemblance to the theoretical model of prelinguistic communication in hearing infants. Unique interrelationships among pointing and early noncommunicative behaviors were found with no correlation between use of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries