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Sun, Anqi; Peng, Weiwei; Ansari, Arya; Li, Xile; Xu, Yue; Yan, Ni – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The current study addressed whether mothers' explicitly expressed and implicitly held attitudes towards infant crying (n = 71) differ with each other and how these two types of attitudes relate to mothers' depressive symptoms during the transition to parenthood. Neither mothers' explicit nor implicit attitudes towards infant crying predicted…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Crying, Parent Attitudes
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Nayak, Madhabika B.; Milner, Joel S. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1998
A study investigated the performance of high- and low-risk (for child abuse) mothers on cognitive measures in a cry (crying infant) and no-cry condition. High-risk mothers had lower conceptual ability, cognitive flexibility, and problem-solving skills. The difficulty high-risk mothers have in using feedback to modify their behavior is discussed.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Abuse, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes