Mechanisms leading to misattribution errors and cooperative knowledge acquisition
This study sought to clarify the process of knowledge acquisition by examining why people tend to misattribute others' activities as their own after having interacted with them. In Study 1, an experiment was conducted with 4‐year‐old children allocated to 2 groups: one group of children interacted with an adult, and the other group interacted with a peer. The latter group was further divided into 2 subgroups on the basis of the strength of children's friendships (high intimacy vs. low intimacy). Children in the low intimacy condition demonstrated more misattributions and greater knowledge acquisition. Study 2 focused o...
Source: Infant and Child Development - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Tetsuya Nada, Shun'ichi Maruno Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Shared book reading and preschool children's academic achievement: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study —Birth cohort
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This paper examines the relationships among the quality and quantity of parent–child shared book reading (SBR) engagements and children's reading and mathematics outcomes in preschool. Additionally, we explore how child and family characteristics predict the quality and quantity of SBR. Quantity was measured using parental reports of the frequency of SBR. Quality was measured by observational protocols evaluating for questioning, vocabulary, and discussion depth. A structural equation model was estimated using data from a nationally representative sample of 700 children living in the United States from the Early...
Source: Infant and Child Development - March 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Erica Barnes, Jaime Puccioni Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The relationship between children's executive functioning, theory of mind, and verbal skills with their own and others' behaviour in a cooperative context: Changes in relations from early to middle school ‐age
This study examined the relations between children's social, communicative, and cognitive skills and their behaviours during a cooperative task, as well as how these relationships change at different ages. Early school‐age (5–8 years old) and middle school‐age (9–12 years old) children completed tasks to assess their executive functioning (i.e., inhibitory control, working memory, and planning), theory of mind, and verbal skills and participated in an interactive cooperative task. Because children participated in pairs, dyadic data analysis was used to examine the effect of individual characteristics on children'...
Source: Infant and Child Development - February 27, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Vanessa Huyder, Elizabeth S. Nilsen, Sarah A. Bacso Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
No! Don't touch the toys: Preschoolers' discipline towards their younger siblings
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Parental limit setting is a challenging and common situation in the daily lives of young children. During these situations, older siblings may use their more advanced cognitive skills and their greater physical strength to discipline their younger sibling and prevent or correct noncompliant behavior. This is the first study to examine preschoolers' discipline towards their toddler siblings during parental limit setting. In addition to observing preschoolers' sibling discipline, associations with their inhibitory control and externalizing behavior, their sibling's noncompliance and both children's gender were inves...
Source: Infant and Child Development - February 27, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheila R. Berkel, Marleen G. Groeneveld, Lotte D. Pol, Joyce J. Endendijk, Elizabeth T. Hallers ‐Haalboom, Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, Judi Mesman Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Interactions between MAOA gene polymorphism and maternal parenting in predicting externalizing and internalizing problems and social competence among Chinese children: Testing the genetic vulnerability and differential susceptibility models
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The present study aimed to test whether monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene polymorphism was a marker of the genetic vulnerability model or the differential susceptibility model by investigating the interaction of MAOA gene polymorphism with maternal parenting on externalizing and internalizing problems and social competence among Chinese children. Participants were 290 children and their parents in China. MAOA genotypes were ascertained by polymerase chain reaction amplification. Mothers reported their parenting stress and engagement in parent–child activities when the child was 6 months old. Children's behavioral...
Source: Infant and Child Development - February 14, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Yapeng Liu, Xinyin Chen, Siman Zhao, Niobe Way, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Guangzhen Zhang, Zongbao Liang, Minghao Zhang, Xiaoyan Ke, Zuhong Lu, Huihua Deng Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
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Source: Infant and Child Development - February 5, 2017 Category: Child Development Tags: LIST OF REVIEWERS Source Type: research
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Children's understanding of animal, plant, and artifact properties between 3 and 6 years
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We investigated the kinds of biological properties that children aged 3–6 years attribute to animals, plants, and artifacts by administering a property attribution task and eliciting explanations for the resulting property attributions. Findings indicated that, from the age of 3 years, children more frequently attribute properties to animals than they do to plants or artifacts. Moreover, attributions increased with age for animals, decreased for artifacts, and remained constant for plants. Concerning the conceptual development of animals and plants, results showed that the properties subtending children's init...
Source: Infant and Child Development - January 1, 2017 Category: Child Development Authors: Nathalie Fouquet, Olga Megalakaki, Florence Labrell Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Infants' emotional expression: Differences in the expression of pleasure and discomfort between infants from Chile and the United States
This study explores differences in the intensity of emotional expression of Chilean and U.S. infants around 1 year of age.
Assessment involved a sequence of videotaped tasks and showed U.S. infants expressed pleasure and discomfort with higher intensity than Chilean infants.
Differences between both samples at 1 year reveal the possibility that cultural emotion socialization shapes emotional expressions very early in development. (Source: Infant and Child Development)
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Antonia Muzard, Alicia Yunjin Kwon, Nancy Espinosa, Claire DeAnne Vallotton, Chamarrita Farkas Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Adaptive parenting for alleviating young children's shyness: A randomized controlled trial of an early intervention program
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A randomized controlled trial was conducted to test the efficacy of the Cool Little Kids program implemented for parents of temperamentally inhibited Hong Kong Chinese preschool‐aged children. This early intervention program was designed to help inhibited children alleviate shy and anxious behaviors in social situations by training parents on adaptive parenting skills. Parents of 57 inhibited children (mean age = 3.91, 35 boys) were randomly assigned to an intervention group and a waitlist control group. Children were assessed by teachers on Chinese shyness, social initiative, and internalizing problems before...
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Felix Luke, Charles C. Chan, Alma Au, Simon M.K. Lai Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Developmental change in emotion expression in frustrating situations: The roles of context and gender
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Emotion expression is a central aspect of social–emotional functioning. Theorists assert that emotion expression undergoes significant changes in the preschool period. There is, however, limited observational evidence of those changes, which may vary by interpersonal context and gender. The present longitudinal study examined developmental changes in emotion expressions from ages 3 to 5 years in 120 children from rural economically strained families. Children's facial, vocal, and postural sadness, anger, and happiness expressions were observed in frustrating tasks in 3 social contexts (a perfect circles task wi...
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Tara M. Chaplin, Melanie R. Klein, Pamela M. Cole, Caitlin C. Turpyn Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Associations of sleep problems with externalizing behaviors and preacademic performance: The moderating role of family socioeconomic status
This study filled some of these gaps in the literature by examining whether family SES moderated the associations of bedtime resistance, parasomnia, and disordered breathing with externalizing behaviors and preacademic performance in a community sample of Chinese families with preschool children. Four hundred eighty‐six parents from Hong Kong, China, provided questionnaire data on their preschool children's sleep and adjustment. Hierarchical regression analyses evaluated the associations of sleep problems and child adjustment, controlling for demographic factors. Interaction terms were entered to examine whether the asso...
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Chun Bun Lam, Kevin Kien Hoa Chung Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Pathways from mothers' early social support to children's language development at age 3
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The relationships between early maternal social support, maternal psychological well‐being, the home learning environment, and children's language skills at age 3 in Korean families were examined. We hypothesized that maternal social support would predict children's language development through its effect on maternal psychological well‐being and the home learning environment. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the conceptual model, using data collected from 1,725 Korean families who participated in the Panel Study of Korean Children. Mothers' early social support predicted children's language...
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Young Eun Chang Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
“I wish my people can be like the ducks”: Children's references to internal states with siblings and friends from early to middle childhood
AbstractThe present study investigated children's internal state language during play with their sibling and friend across early and middle childhood. Specifically, the category type of internal state language (e.g., cognitions and goals), referent (e.g., own and other), and associations with children's birth order were examined. A total of 65 (T1: Time 1) and 46 (T2: Time 2) children were observed at age 4 and 3 years later when children were aged 7 with their sibling and with their friend in two separate play sessions at home. Videos were transcribed and coded for the frequency and category of internal state language. C...
Source: Infant and Child Development - December 18, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Jamie Leach, Nina Howe, Ganie DeHart Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Infant and Child Development - December 7, 2016 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
