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Peer reviewedPersson-Blennow, Inger; McNeil, Thomas F. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1979
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement
Peer reviewedvon Hofsten, Claes; Lindhagen, Karin – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
How infants come to master reaching for moving objects was studied in a situation where the distance to and the velocity of the moving object varied. Eleven infants participated in the study. (MP)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Peer reviewedPersson-Blennow, Inger; McNeil, Thomas F. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1980
Two parental questionnaires were developed for measurement of temperament in one- and two-year old children in Sweden. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPark, Kyung Ja – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Examined relationship of maternal sensitivity and infant temperament to attachment security among Korean 1-year-olds. Found that securely attached infants showed more secure-base behaviors and compliance, enjoyed physical contact, and showed fewer fussy/difficult behaviors than did other infants. Infant gender, but not security status, related to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
Download full textMelhuish, E. C. – 1986
A longitudinal study was made of women and their first-born children who have different employment and day care experiences during the child's first three years of life. Specific aims of the study were (1) to gain full account of the history and experience of women who return to full-time employment while their first child is still young and of…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development, Employed Parents
Peer reviewedRoopnarine, Jaipaul L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Compared with fathers, mothers were more likely to pick up and hold infants, feed and comfort them, and invest time in displaying affection. Although there were sex differences in parents' rough and peek-a-boo play, mothers and fathers treated boys and girls quite similarly. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cultural Traits, Family Structure, Fathers
Otaki, Midori; And Others – 1983
Maternal and infant behaviors of 30 American and 52 Japanese mother/infant dyads from middle-class homes were compared. The major differences in caretaker behavior were (1) the Japanese mothers spent more time with or in the presence of their babies than did the American mothers, and (2) the American mothers were more active in positioning the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDunn, Judy; Kendrick, Carol – Child Development, 1981
Individual differences in the social behavior of young siblings were studied in 40 sibling pairs observed at home, when the second child was 8 months old and 14 months old. Differences between same-sex and different-sex sibling pairs were marked by the second observation. More positive social behavior characterized same-sex pairs; more negative…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Shimada, Shoko; And Others – 1979
The purpose of this study was to cross-sectionally and longitudinally examine the developmental process of search behavior in infancy. Subjects were 23 Japanese normal infants (11 males and 12 females) who were individually tested once a month from the age of six to 13 months in laboratory settings. Small toys and three white opaque cubic boxes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cross Sectional Studies, Developmental Stages
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Zehler, Annette M. – 1982
This document consists of four research reports and one research note focusing on several aspects of the cognitive and emotional development of young children. The first article explores two theories of the relationship between cognition and emotion, reporting on an investigation of that relationship in a simple learning task involving 60 Japanese…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability
Kalliopuska, Mirja, Ed. – 1995
The third Fenno-Hungarian Conference on Developmental Psychology covered four main concepts: the historical roots and development of social competence through three generations, parent-child interaction, parenthood, and the development of socio-cognitive competence through childhood and adolescence. A series of papers was presented addressing the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Careers, Child Development, Children
