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Allison Frost; Elissa Scherer; Esther O. Chung; John A. Gallis; Kate Sanborn; Yunji Zhou; Ashley Hagaman; Katherine LeMasters; Siham Sikander; Elizabeth Turner; Joanna Maselko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Maternal depression is a global public health concern with far-reaching impacts on child development, yet our understanding of mechanisms remains incomplete. This study examined whether parenting mediates the association between maternal depression and child outcomes. Participants included 841 rural Pakistani mother-child dyads (50% female).…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parenting Styles, Child Development
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Zvara, B. J.; Burchinal, M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
A growing literature provides evidence of long-term effects of childhood sexual trauma (CST), however the intergenerational consequences of CST are not well understood. In the current study we examine the adjustment of children whose mothers reported a history of CST compared to children whose mothers did not report childhood trauma across…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Background, Child Abuse, Child Development
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Sheila Lopez; Nicole R. Giuliani; Anna Cecilia McWhirter – Grantee Submission, 2024
Self-regulation in early childhood, including the ability to regulate one's own thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, are associated with a range of outcomes including academic performance, and social development. Research has extensively examined the effects of mother's parental involvement and parenting experiences, such as parenting stress and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
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Yusra Zaki Aboud; Rommel Alali – Journal of International Students, 2023
This study explores the influence of kindergarten care on the social and cognitive development of Saudi Arabian and international students in early childhood education in Saudi Arabia. A mixed-methods approach assessed the development of 302 children, aged between 5 years and 11 months to 7 years, and their mothers in Saudi Arabia's Eastern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Tests, Kindergarten, Social Development
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Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Klein, Pnina; Atira, Gila; Ben-Eliezer, Ruhama – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Infants and toddlers spend a substantial amount of their time in out-of-home care, and are thus being tended to not only by their mothers but also by their caregivers. It is therefore of considerable importance to study the effects of caregiver-infant compared to mother-infant interactions. To address this issue, first, various variables of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
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Nunes Cauduro, Giovanna; de Mendonça Filho, Euclides José; Pandolfo Silveira, Nicole; Ruschel Bandeira, Denise – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The parent-child relationship has been presented as one of the most important contexts in the early stages of life, but not all caregivers provide an optimal environment for development. Some parental and environmental factors exert a particularly strong influence on development. Parental practices and socioeconomic status are the factors most…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles
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Ramanathan, Seethalakshmi; Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Faraone, Stephen V. – Infant and Child Development, 2021
Economic difficulties in early childhood are associated with significant adverse long-term socioemotional and cognitive outcomes. In this study, we examine an understudied financial stressor that is often observed during periods of high unemployment--transient familial financial stress (TFS). We use the early childhood longitudinal study--(birth)…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Development, Correlation, Social Development
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Silva, C. V.; Cruz, E. J. S. da.; Gouveia, A. J.; Pedroso, J. da S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this research was to assess global and socio-emotional development and infant's language of caregivers by means of the third edition of Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development. Literature points peculiarities on the institutional setting and that presence or absence of mother can impact infant's development in several forms.…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development
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Speidel, Ruth; Valentino, Kristin; McDonnell, Christina G.; Cummings, E. Mark; Fondren, Kaitlin – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The manner in which mothers engage in emotional discussion, or reminisce, with their young children about past emotional experiences poses important ramifications for child socioemotional and cognitive development. Maltreating mothers may have difficulty engaging in emotionally supportive reminiscing. The current study examined the role of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Response, Recall (Psychology), Child Development
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Yuill, Nicola; Little, Sarah – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Background: Mother-child mental state talk (MST) supports children's developing social-emotional understanding. In typically developing (TD) children, family conversations about emotion, cognition, and causes have been linked to children's emotion understanding. Specific language impairment (SLI) may compromise developing emotion understanding and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Development, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Watts, Sarah E.; Oburu, Paul; Lah, Suncica; Rhodes, Paul; Hunt, Caroline J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This study investigated whether higher maternal psychological distress, lower provision of psychosocial stimulation and a negative appraisal of parenting experience were associated with lower cognitive, motor, social-emotional and adaptive behaviour development in children under 3 years of age in Kenya. A cross-sectional design was used, with 81…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Disturbances, Stimulation, Parent Child Relationship
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Black, Caroline F. D.; Schindler, Holly; Duncan, Greg; Magnuson, Katherine; Shonkoff, Jack; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
For over five decades, teen parent programs (TPPs) have offered mothers an opportunity to increase their self-sufficiency and invest in their children's development. Yet to date, no systematic review has examined overall effects of these programs on parenting behaviors or child developmental outcomes. Using a meta-analytic database of 25 studies,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Program Effectiveness, Early Parenthood
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Al-Onizat, Sabah Hasan Hamdan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of an educational program in improving the level of knowledge of parents about natural growth indicators in the development of children and determining the indicators which delay development in children from birth to three years old. The sample of the study consisted of 60 volunteers who…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Child Development, Developmental Delays, Young Children
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Chor, Elise – Child Development, 2018
One-quarter of the Head Start population has a mother who participated in the program as a child. This study uses experimental Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) data on 3- and 4-year-olds (N = 2,849) to describe multigenerational Head Start families and their program experiences. In sharp contrast to full-sample HSIS findings, Head Start has large,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Mothers, Social Development
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Luo, Renfu; Jia, Fang; Yue, Ai; Zhang, Linxiu; Lyu, Qijia; Shi, Yaojiang; Yang, Meredith; Medina, Alexis; Kotb, Sarah; Rozelle, Scott – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aims to investigate the developmental status of rural Chinese children, the extent of interactive parenting they receive, and the relation between the two. A sample of 448 six to eighteen-month-old children and their caregivers were randomly selected from two rural counties in Hebei and Yunnan provinces. According the third edition of…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Development, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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