Publication Date
| In 2025 | 13 |
| Since 2024 | 54 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 208 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 459 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1112 |
Descriptor
| Child Development | 1733 |
| Mothers | 1733 |
| Parent Child Relationship | 922 |
| Infants | 527 |
| Foreign Countries | 491 |
| Child Rearing | 317 |
| Young Children | 310 |
| Correlation | 295 |
| Longitudinal Studies | 283 |
| Preschool Children | 270 |
| Fathers | 230 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 27 |
| Practitioners | 12 |
| Parents | 10 |
| Policymakers | 4 |
| Teachers | 4 |
| Community | 2 |
| Counselors | 2 |
| Students | 2 |
| Support Staff | 1 |
Location
| United States | 43 |
| Australia | 32 |
| United Kingdom | 31 |
| Canada | 28 |
| Turkey | 27 |
| Japan | 25 |
| China | 22 |
| Israel | 21 |
| Italy | 20 |
| Germany | 18 |
| California | 17 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkPetry, Isabela; Trettim, Jéssica Puchalski; de Matos, Mariana Bonati; Rubin, Bárbara Borges; Scholl, Carolina Coelho; Firpo, Pedro de Oliveira; Pinheiro, Karen Amaral Tavares; Quevedo, Luciana de Avila; Ghisleni, Gabriele Cordenonzi; Tavares Pinheiro, Ricardo; Motta, Janaína Vieira dos Santos – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This was a cross-sectional study that aimed to evaluate the association between breastfeeding and motor development of infants at 3-4 months of age in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. The outcome, infant motor development, was evaluated through the Bayley Scale of Infant Development (Bayley III). The prevalence of infants that stopped…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Motor Development, Foreign Countries
Zhengjie Luo; Chunqiang Yang; Tingting Cai; Jing Li; Yanru Liu; Binbin Li; Xiaoming Zhang – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the possible association between maternal alcohol drinking during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring. Twelve datasets from five observational studies were included. Results showed that maternal alcohol drinking during pregnancy was not independently associated with ASD (risk ratio:…
Descriptors: Drinking, Mothers, Pregnancy, Prenatal Influences
Min-An Chao; Ching-Ling Cheng – Infant and Child Development, 2025
While the relationship between secure attachment and emotion regulation has been extensively investigated, there is relatively little information about the trajectory of emotion regulation in childhood and whether changes in emotion regulation would mediate the relation between mother-child secure attachment and independence. A latent growth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Emotional Response, Self Control
Alejandra Ros Pilarz; Jessica Pac – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
In the United States, most mothers work during pregnancy. Yet, until the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in 2022, pregnant employees did not have a right to reasonable accommodations to work under safe conditions. This law is expected to increase employment among pregnant women, making it critical to understand the effects of work…
Descriptors: Mothers, Pregnancy, Employed Parents, Health
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Christine Carrig – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2025
In 1951, when Maria Montessori described the pattern of human development as the Constructive Rhythm of Life, marking each of four chapters or planes of development with an inverted triangle, she colored the first and third planes red to represent their intensity (Grazzini, 1996). These two red triangles are referred to as creative periods and…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Individual Development, Adults, Developmental Stages
Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
Casey, S.; Carter, M.; Looney, A. M.; Livingstone, V.; Moloney, G.; O'Keeffe, G. W.; Taylor, R. S.; Kenny, L. C.; McCarthy, F. P.; McCowan, L. M. E.; Thompson, J. M. D.; Murray, D. M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterised by deficits in social interactions and communication, with stereotypical and repetitive behaviours. Recent evidence suggests that maternal immune dysregulation may predispose offspring to ASD. Independent samples t-tests revealed downregulation of IL-17A concentrations in…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Joan E. Foley; Thomas M. Olino; Marsha Weinraub – Developmental Science, 2025
Researchers have demonstrated the important contribution of mothers' sensitive parenting to children's developing cognition over the first 5 years of life, yet studies examining sensitivity beyond the early years, controlling for earlier effects, are limited. In this exploratory study, we examined the developmental pathways through which mothers'…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Children
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
Solveig Jurkat; Moritz Köster; Ledys Hernández Chacón; Shoji Itakura; Joscha Kärtner – Developmental Science, 2024
Previous cross-cultural research has described two different attention styles: a holistic style, characterized by context-sensitive processing, generally associated with interdependent cultural contexts, and an analytic style, a higher focus on salient objects, generally found in independent cultural contexts. Though a general assumption in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Child Development, Mothers
Pirko Tõugu; Anni Tamm; Tiia Tulviste – Infant and Child Development, 2024
In this study, maternal socialization goals in early childhood were linked to qualities of children's self in middle childhood, while also considering maternal education and child gender. Estonian mothers (N = 209; M[subscript age] = 33.6; 52.2% had university education) provided ratings of their socialization goals for children (52.2% girls;…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Mother Attitudes, Mothers
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Yarger, Heather A. – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Neglect is the most prevalent form of maltreatment, but it has been understudied relative to abuse. Additionally, developmental outcomes associated with early maternal withdrawal have been understudied relative to outcomes associated with harsh treatment. However, a large body of studies on rodents has documented the causal effect of low maternal…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Mothers, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Quebles, Irina; Perrigo, Judith L.; Bravo, Rocío; Patel Gera, Mona; Poulsen, Marie Kanne; Wheeler, Barbara Yoshioka; Williams, Marian E. – Infants and Young Children, 2022
This study explored the experiences and perspectives of Latinx mothers of children younger than 3 years who had participated in a developmental screening initiative provided by 2 Federally Qualified Health Centers in an urban setting, had positive developmental screenings, and were referred to early intervention (EI) services. A 2-phase…
Descriptors: Mothers, Hispanic Americans, Toddlers, Early Intervention
Amanda H. Passmore; Marie Tejero Hughes – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
A unique component of early childhood involves understanding how caregivers and educators promote children's developmental outcomes, with play opportunities being a key avenue for enhancing these skills. Targeted coaching is one type of support that can tap into active family engagement during playful learning. This collective case study examined…
Descriptors: Mothers, Play, Parent Child Relationship, Coaching (Performance)
