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Direct linkThompson, Rebecca J.; Napoli, Amy R.; Purpura, David J. – Infant and Child Development, 2017
The home numeracy environment (HNE) is often predictive of children's early mathematics skills, though the findings are mixed. Overall, research on kindergarten-aged children demonstrates a relation between the HNE and early numeracy skills, whereas findings for preschool-aged children are more equivocal. One potential reason for equivocality of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Numeracy, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills
Kiel, Elizabeth J.; Buss, Kristin A. – Infant and Child Development, 2014
Two recent advances in the study of fearful temperament (behavioural inhibition) include the validation of dysregulated fear as a temperamental construct that more specifically predicts later social withdrawal and anxiety, and the use of conceptual and statistical models that place parenting as a mechanism of development from temperament to these…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Toddlers, Fear, Parent Influence
Bridgett, David J.; Laake, Lauren M.; Gartstein, Maria A.; Dorn, Danielle – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The current study examined the influence of maternal characteristics on the development of infant smiling and laughter, a marker of early positive emotionality (PE) and how maternal characteristics and the development of infant PE contributed to subsequent maternal parenting. One hundred fifty-nine mothers with 4-month-old infants participated.…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Emotional Development, Child Development, Mothers
Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Albrecht, Erin C.; Kemp, Christine J. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Lower levels of parent-child affective flexibility indicate risk for children's problem outcomes. This short-term longitudinal study examined whether maternal depressive symptoms were related to lower levels of dyadic affective flexibility and positive affective content in mother-child problem-solving interactions at age 3.5?years…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Negative Attitudes, Behavior Problems
Smith, Hannah R.; Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Suna; Barnes, Jacqueline – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Research on the effect of paternal mental health problems, particularly on young children, is based predominantly on clinical levels of depression. Furthermore, potential mediators such as marital discord have often been overlooked. This longitudinal community study assessed the association between paternal mental health symptoms in a community…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Mental Disorders, Longitudinal Studies
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
Hall, Wendy A.; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Silburn, Sven R.; Parsons, Deborah E.; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
Behavioural sleep problems (childhood insomnias) can cause distress for both parents and children. This paper reports a model describing predictors of high sleep problem scores in a representative population-based random sample survey of non-Aboriginal singleton children born in 1995 and 1996 (1085 girls and 1129 boys) in Western Australia.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology)
Robert, Michele; Heroux, Gisele – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This cross-sectional study explored whether participation, from early childhood, in play involving different cognitive abilities predicts visuo-spatial achievement at ages 9, 12, and 15. Based on parental assessment, prior and present practice of spatial manipulation play was found to be consistently more frequent in boys than in girls; the…
Descriptors: Play, Females, Spatial Ability, Males
