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Direct linkNelcida L. Garcia-Sanchez; Anthony Steven Dick; Timothy Hayes; Shannon M. Pruden – Developmental Science, 2024
Individual differences in spatial thinking are predictive of children's math and science achievement and later entry into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Little is known about whether parent characteristics predict individual differences in children's spatial thinking. This study aims to understand whether,…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mothers, Ability, Parent Influence
Emiroglu Ilvan, Tugba; Ceylan, Remziye – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Previous research about children's digital play has predominantly focused on parental perspectives and parental mediation strategies. Although research on the effects of digital play on young children's development is plentiful, there is little evidence on young children's digital play addiction tendency. Herein, preschool children's digital play…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior
Bai, Liu; Kim, Christine Youngwon; Crosby, Brian; Teti, Douglas M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The present study examined mothers' emotional availability (EA) during daytime free play and bedtime as a mediator of linkages between maternal nighttime sleep and infant-mother attachment. Participants included 153 mothers (85% White) with infants (53% female). When infants were 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, maternal sleep was assessed using…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Shorer, M.; Zilker, N.; Salomon, A.; Spiegelman, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined parental playfulness as a mediator of the association between mothers' emotional difficulties (anxiety, depression) and their children's psychosocial adjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviours). We also examined the associations between parental playfulness and mothers' supportive / unsupportive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Tuladhar, Charu T.; St. John, Ashley; Tarullo, Amanda R. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study investigated women's perceptions of caring and control in their fathers versus their mothers in relation to specific ways in which they interacted with their infants during freeplay. Participants were 73 mothers and their 6 month-old infants. Results revealed that women's perceptions about their mothers compared to their fathers in the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Silletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
Neale, Dave; Whitebread, David – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
There is evidence that parents could influence the development of their children's effortful control in infancy through social interaction. Playful interactions in infancy often involve scaffolding - i.e. the parental provision of support and modelling for problem solving and learning during play. However, previous research has found little…
Descriptors: Play, Interaction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Problem Solving
Provenzi, Livio; Olson, Karen L.; Montirosso, Rosario; Tronick, Ed – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The study of infants' interactive style and social stress response to repeated stress exposures is of great interest for developmental and clinical psychologists. Stable maternal and dyadic behavior is critical to sustain infants' development of an adaptive social stress response, but the association between infants' interactive style and social…
Descriptors: Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Anxiety
Lin, Xunyi; Li, Hui – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Parental beliefs about play and learning are part of the "belief-context" of early childhood development and can thus make a key difference for the child. Previous studies have focused on cross-cultural comparisons, and therefore have neglected intra-cultural variations. This study sampled 163 Chinese mothers with children aged two to…
Descriptors: Asians, Mothers, Play, Academic Achievement
Soydan, Sema Büyüktaskapu; Alakoç pirpir, Devlet; Azak, Hayriye – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The main purpose of this study is to identify the predictive power of the following variables for physical and relational aggression level of children: cartoon preferences of children, parental attitudes and teacher-student relationship. Study group consisted of 300 preschool children their mothers and 18 preschool teachers. The results showed a…
Descriptors: Aggression, Play, Predictor Variables, Teacher Student Relationship
Poulain, Tanja; Brauer, Jens – First Language, 2018
This study explores the developmental change of mother-child interactions in order to investigate which aspects of maternal behavior affect children's speech production. To this end, the interactions between 79 German-speaking mothers and their two- or five-year-old children were observed at two time points (12 months apart) and in two interactive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables
Prado, Elizabeth L.; Abbeddou, Souheila; Adu-Afarwuah, Seth; Arimond, Mary; Ashorn, Per; Ashorn, Ulla; Bendabenda, Jaden; Brown, Kenneth H.; Hess, Sonja Y.; Kortekangas, Emma; Lartey, Anna; Maleta, Kenneth; Oaks, Brietta M.; Ocansey, Eugenia; Okronipa, Harriet; Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco; Pulakka, Anna; Somé, Jérôme W.; Stewart, Christine P.; Stewart, Robert C.; Vosti, Stephen A.; Yakes Jimenez, Elizabeth; Dewey, Kathryn G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Previous reviews have identified 44 risk factors for poor early child development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Further understanding of their relative influence and pathways is needed to inform the design of interventions targeting ECD. Methods: We conducted path analyses of factors associated with 18-month language and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Motor Development, Young Children
Zampini, L.; Salvi, A.; D'Odorico, L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2015
Background: Because of their difficulties in language development, various studies have focussed on the precursors of linguistic skills in children with Down syndrome. However, data on the predictive role of joint attention on language development in this population are inconsistent. The present study aimed to analyse attention behaviours in a…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Attention, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries
McElwain, Nancy L.; Ogolsky, Brian G.; Engle, Jennifer M.; Holland, Ashley S.; Mitchell, Elissa Thomann – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Child-child similarity on attachment and temperament were examined, in turn, as predictors of interaction quality between previously unacquainted children. At 33 months, child-mother attachment security was assessed, and parents reported on child temperament. At 39 months, 114 children were randomly paired into 57 same-sex dyads and observed…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Personality Traits, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables
Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
