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Direct linkZahra Halavani; H. Henny Yeung; Senay Cebioglu; Tanya Broesch – Infant and Child Development, 2024
It is known that infant-directed speech (IDS) plays a key role in language development. Previous research, however, has also identified significant variability across societies in terms of how often IDS occurs. For example, some studies report very little IDS in non-western, small-scale societies -- including children growing up in small-scale…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Caregiver Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mothers
Sarah Coughlan; Jean Quigley; Elizabeth Nixon – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: To investigate the language environments experienced by preterm-born infants, this study compared the linguistic and interactive features of parent--infant conversations involving 2-year-old preterm- and term-born infants. The study also explored how mother-infant and father-infant conversations may be differentially affected by…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Toddlers
Onyango, Silas; Brentani, Alexandra; Fink, Günther – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Globally, an estimated 15 million children are born prematurely each year, resulting in a high burden of under-five mortality and neurodevelopmental disability. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a key intervention to support the development of preterm infants. However, evidence on the impact of KMC in routine care settings remains limited. This paper…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Infant Care, Child Health, Mothers
Astor, Kim; Lindskog, Marcus; Juvrud, Joshua; Wangchuk; Namgyel, Sangay Choden; Wangmo, Tshering; Tshering, Kinzang; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Developmental Psychology, 2022
We assessed whether the negative association between maternal postpartum depression (PPD) and infants' development of joint attention (gaze following) generalizes from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) to Majority World contexts. The study was conducted in Bhutan (N = 105, M = 278 days, 52% males) but also draws from…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Infants, Attention
Petry, 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
Jaqueline Wendland; Charlotte Castelnau; Alexandra Déprez; Didier Rabain; Claire de Carmantrand; Antoine Guédeney – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Behavioural, cognitive and emotional dysregulation related to parent borderline personality disorder (BPD) may have a major impact on parent-infant interactions. We investigated the ways in which infant social withdrawal and mother sensitivity may be associated to a BPD diagnosis in mothers. Two groups of clinic-referred mother-infant dyads were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Withdrawal (Psychology), Personality Problems
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
Download full textSheila Franco; Ashley Woodall; Adi Noiman; Ruowei Li; Christie Kim; Jian Chen; Laurie Elam-Evans; Denise D’Angelo; Katherine Fowler; Holly Shulman; Brenda Bauman; Katherine Kahn; Carla Black; Alexandra Thompson; Laura Hales – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2024
Maternal and infant health indicators are often used to gauge the overall health of a nation. Understanding the current state of maternal and infant well-being, health behaviors, and social determinants of health across several domains offers the opportunity to kindle ideas for interventions to improve well-being. This report features indicators…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Health, Well Being
Ducreux, Edwige; Puentes-Neuman, Guadalupe – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study used an ethological approach to explore the behavioural adaptation of nineteen infants during their first six weeks in Residential Care (RC), or a Foster Family (FF) or an Infant-Mother Centre (IMC). Direct observations were conducted once a week at bath time. Observed behaviours were: sleep-wake states, visual exploration, motor…
Descriptors: Infants, Foster Care, Mothers, Infant Behavior
Northrup, Jessie B.; Iverson, Jana M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Early mother-infant coordinated interactions play a critical role in infant development. The present study describes the development of the dyadic coordination of vocalization and gaze behavior between mothers and infants over the first year of life. In addition to describing developmental trajectories of behavior, the study contributes to our…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Infants, Child Development
Manning, Leah B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Hierarchical linear modelling was used to explore the effect of changes in maternal sensitivity on attachment over time. Child characteristics of gender, temperament, and developmental status were used as moderating factors. Data from 1,249 mothers and their children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development when the children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Time Perspective, Attachment Behavior, Sex
Roe, Elizabeth; Jensen, Lynn; Finlay-Jones, Amy; White, Scott W.; Wong, Kingsley; Leonard, Helen; Straker, Leon; Downs, Jenny – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Aim: To investigate developmental trajectories in early childhood and predictors of class assignment. Methods: Data were available for Gen2 infants at 12 (n = 2275), 24 (n = 1845) and 36 (n = 2110) months of age in the Raine Study. Latent growth class analysis was used to identify developmental trajectories based on the Ages and Stages…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Risk, Risk Assessment
Xinwu Zhang; Delei Liu; Lucy Pappas; Sarah-Eve Dill; Tianli Feng; Yunting Zhang; Jin Zhao; Scott Rozelle; Yue Ma – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The home language environment is a significant correlate of early childhood development outcomes; however, less is known about this mechanism in rural and peri-urban China where rates of developmental delay are as high as 52%. This study examines associations between the home language environment and child development in a sample of 158 children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Development, Developmental Delays
Kaveri K. Sheth; Naja Ferjan Ramírez – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Research on "parentese," the acoustically exaggerated, slower, and higher-pitched speech directed toward infants, has mostly focused on maternal contributions, although it has long been known that fathers also produce parentese. Given recent societal changes in family dynamics, it is necessary to revise these mother-centered models of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Syntax
Sujan, Ayesha C.; Class, Quetzal A.; Rickert, Martin E.; Van Hulle, Carol; D'Onofrio, Brian M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Previous research assessing consequences of interpregnancy intervals (IPIs) on child development is mixed. Utilizing a population-based US sample (n = 5339), we first estimate the associations between background characteristics (e.g. sociodemographic and maternal characteristics) and short ([less than or equal to]1 year) and long (>3 years)…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Infants, Pregnancy
