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Direct linkMoioli, Margherita; Riva Crugnola, Cristina; Albizzati, Alessandro; Bottini, Marta; Caiati, Lorena; Chisari, Serena; Rossetti, Elena; Ierardi, Elena – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Eighty-one adolescent and young mother-infant dyads have been divided into two groups with/without traumatic experiences in maternal history to examine the effect of maternal traumatic experiences on the quality of mother-infant relationship. At infant 3 months, mother-infant interaction was video-recorded. Results showed that adolescent and young…
Descriptors: Trauma, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infants
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
Kwon, Julie; Delaney-Black, Virginia; Covington, Chandice; Abell, Steven C.; Nordstrom-Bailey, Beth; Sokol, Robert J.; Ager, Joel – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
This study examined the relationship between maternal expressed emotion (EE) and children's perceived self-competence, behavior and intelligence in a community sample of 190 urban, African American children ages 6-7. Maternal EE was measured by the Five Minute Speech Sample. Self reports and standardized measures were used to examine other mother…
Descriptors: African American Children, Intelligence, Hyperactivity, Anxiety
Xu, Yaoying – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine toddlers' emotional reactions to separation from their primary caregivers through the observation on a group of toddlers (18-30 months old) at a university preschool classroom. Interactional ethnography with ethnographic perspective and sociolinguistic discourse analysis was used as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Observation, Emotional Response, Child Caregivers
Peer reviewedThoman, Evelyn B. – Early Child Development and Care, 1974
Summarizes human and animal studies of the feedback system of in infant-mother-infant interactions. It is shown that mutual modifications of behaviors can be depicted as a system of continuous feedback in which both mother and infant contribute to developmental success or failure. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Peer reviewedNicholls, Andrea; Kirkland, John – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Notes that many researchers have asserted maternal "sensitivity" as the key feature of interactions promoting "secure" attachment relationships. Reviews literature addressing the construct of sensitivity, highlighting the problem of definition and identifying the range of behaviors typically used as indicators of sensitivity.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
Peer reviewedRobinshaw, Ellen M.; Evans, Roy – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Explores the effect of variations in caregiver sensitivity on the timing of their severely and profoundly deaf infants' acquisition of communication skills. Found that caregivers of deaf infants showed considerable variation in comparison to the caregivers of normally hearing infants. Contextual factors of a dynamic nature operate with varying…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Behavior Patterns, Caregiver Role, Childhood Needs
