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Direct linkBurns-Nader, Sherwood; Scofield, Jason; Jones, Caroline – Infant and Child Development, 2019
Children often substitute one object for another during play. They may substitute a stick for a sword or a box for a car, often favouring substitutes that are shaped like the needed object. The current study looked at the roles of shape and specificity, the degree to which a possible substitute resembles something else, in children's object…
Descriptors: Play, Child Behavior, Geometric Concepts, Preferences
St George, Jennifer; Fletcher, Richard; Palazzi, Kerrin – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Increasing amounts of research show that fathers' involvement in children's lives contributes to the child's social, emotional and cognitive development; however, much of the evidence comes from fathers' caregiving and object play. This exploratory study compared the characteristics of 24 Australian fathers' play in two contexts--toy play and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Play, Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis
Acar, Ibrahim H.; Frohn, Scott; Prokasky, Amanda; Molfese, Victoria J.; Bates, John E. – Infant and Child Development, 2019
The study examines the concurrent and longitudinal associations between ratings-based measures (parents, secondary caregivers, and observers) and performance-based measures of focused attention in toddlers aged 30 (n = 147), 36 (n = 127), and 42 months (n = 107). Parents and secondary caregivers rated focused attention behaviours using the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Attention Control, Correlation, Child Behavior
Melzer, Dawn K.; Palermo, Cori A. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
The present study investigated the relationship between complexity of pretend play, initiation of pretense activities, and mental state utterances used during play. Children 3 to 4 years of age were videotaped while engaging in pretend play with a parent. The videotapes were coded according to mental state utterances (i.e. desire, emotion,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Usage, Correlation, Play
Evans, Cortney A.; Nelson, Larry J.; Porter, Christin L. – Infant and Child Development, 2012
This study examines the early emergence of sensory reactivity and novelty awareness and their relations to children's behaviours with peers. A total of 260 parents (242 mothers, 18 fathers) and 10 teachers of 260 children (131 male, 129 female; M?=?63?months; SD?=?8.80; range?=?39-81) participated. Structural equation models indicate that sensory…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Social Behavior, Personality, Young Children
Hakman, Melissa; Sullivan, Maureen – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between compliance in toddlers and maternal verbosity as well as the type of task. Mothers and their toddlers completed a warm-up task, a proactive toy clean-up task, and a prohibitive forbidden objects task. Mothers were assigned to one of two verbosity conditions (high versus low) and to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Toddlers, Compliance (Psychology), Child Behavior
Guajardo, Nicole R.; Snyder, Gregory; Petersen, Rachel – Infant and Child Development, 2009
The present study included observational and self-report measures to examine associations among parental stress, parental behaviour, child behaviour, and children's theory of mind and emotion understanding. Eighty-three parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children participated. Parents completed measures of parental stress, parenting (laxness,…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Child Behavior
