Parental alcohol use, parenting, and child on ‐time development
This study examined whether parental alcohol use in adolescence, adulthood, and for mothers, during pregnancy, was related to their young children's functioning in terms of their on‐time development as indicated by the number of developmental areas in which children experienced delay. Observed parenting practices and family socioeconomic status were tested as potential explanatory mechanisms of these links. Data came from the surveys and videotaped observations of a community sample of 123 biological parents and their 1‐ to 5‐year‐old children followed longitudinally. Results suggest that the negative association b...
Source: Infant and Child Development - November 15, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Katarina Guttmannova, Karl G. Hill, Jennifer A. Bailey, Lacey A. Hartigan, Candice M. Small, J. David Hawkins Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Family members' helping behavior: Alliance formations during naturalistic polyadic conflicts
This study highlights the dynamic nature of family conflict at home and is discussed in terms of links between relationships with family members, as well as informal learning of conflict behaviors.
Highlights
Conflicts involving three or more family members occurs quite often at home.
Alliances are a common role that family members assume in conflict, as they try to achieve a favourable outcome for their side.
Children's involvement both as initiators and additional parties highlight their learning of various complex conflict behaviours in childhood. (Source: Infant and Child Development)
Source: Infant and Child Development - November 6, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Ryan J. Persram, Nina Howe, Sandra Della Porta, Hildy S. Ross Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep throughout early childhood
Abstract
Despite strong theoretical reasons to believe that the quality of parent–infant interactions should influence child sleep, the empirical evidence for links between maternal behavior and children's sleep is equivocal. Notably, it is unclear at which ages such influences might be particularly salient. The current study aimed to examine prospective longitudinal associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep during early childhood. Maternal sensitivity was assessed at 12 months during a home visit. Children's sleep was measured at 12 and 18 months as well as at 2, 3, and 4 years, using a sle...
Source: Infant and Child Development - November 5, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Émilie Tétreault, Andrée‐Anne Bouvette‐Turcot, Annie Bernier, Heidi Bailey Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Theory of mind, affective empathy, and persuasive strategies in school ‐aged children
Abstract
Understanding that other people hold different mental states and that they may be changed is the core of persuasion. Thus, theory of mind (ToM) abilities are fundamental to generate persuasive arguments. To date, only the relation between false belief and false belief‐emotion understanding and persuasion has been investigated, ignoring other advanced aspects of ToM. Moreover, the role of affective empathy in the engagement of persuasion strategies remains unknown. The aim of this study was to overcome such limitations. Elementary children (N = 142) were enrolled. An advanced ToM test, measures of affective emp...
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Antonia Lonigro, Roberto Baiocco, Emma Baumgartner, Fiorenzo Laghi Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parenting styles and home literacy opportunities: Associations with children's oral language skills
This study examined associations among parenting style, home literacy practices, and children's language skills. A total of 181 ethnically diverse parents, primarily African American, and their preschool‐aged child participated. Results suggest that an authoritative parenting style was positively associated with informal home literacy (book reading) practices and formal literacy (parental teaching) practices whereas an authoritarian parenting style was negatively associated with informal home literacy practices. Informal home literacy experience was positively and parents' teaching literacy was negatively related to chil...
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Gary E. Bingham, Hyun ‐Joo Jeon, Kyong‐Ah Kwon, Chaehyun Lim Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The effect of siblings on children's social skills and perspective taking
Abstract
The current study examined associations between sibling characteristics (being an only child, having an older brother, younger brother, older sister, or younger sister) and two aspects of social competence, and how these processes may differ based on child gender. Participants included 112 children ages 5 to 7 with either one or no siblings. Results suggested that siblings' influence on social competence is complex. For perspective taking, sibling characteristics and child's gender did not have significant main effects. However, interactions between older brother and child gender and between younger brother and ch...
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Samantha A. Sang, Jackie A. Nelson Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Age ‐related differences in the relation between the home numeracy environment and numeracy skills
Abstract
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 these findings is that previous studies have not accounted for the way different practices may relate to children's mathematics skills at different ages. The purpose of the present study was to explore a potential reason for discrepancies in findings of the relation be...
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Rebecca J. Thompson, Amy R. Napoli, David J. Purpura Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Maternal guidance in at ‐risk mother–child dyads: Associations with contextual variables
Abstract
The present study was designed to explore how maternal guidance (i.e., involvement and monitoring) is associated with parent‐level and contextual factors in unstructured and structured tasks. Participants were mothers who had histories of risk and disadvantage (mean age = 30.47) with their preschool‐aged children (aged 2–6 years; n males = 39, n females = 50). Maternal guidance was divided into two categories: directive (i.e., commands and command repetitions) and nondirective (i.e., queries, verbal prompts, and explanations). Results revealed that mothers with more directive guidance had higher level...
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Ciara Briscoe, Dale M. Stack, Lisa A. Serbin, Jane E. Ledingham, Alex E. Schwartzman Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Seeing and knowing: Attention to illustrations during storybook reading and narrative comprehension in 2 ‐year‐olds
This study uses eye‐tracking methodology to examine the relationship between extant vocabulary, visual attention to illustration and comprehension in two‐year‐olds.
This study found that two‐year‐olds visual attention to relevant illustration is predicted by their extant vocabulary and predicts comprehension. (Source: Infant and Child Development)
Source: Infant and Child Development - October 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Tanya Kaefer, Ashley M. Pinkham, Susan B. Neuman Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
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Source: Infant and Child Development - October 4, 2016 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Categorical ERP repetition effects for human and furniture items in 7 ‐month‐old infants
This study compares infants' brain processing of human and furniture pictures, probing infants' categorization skills with an event‐related potential (ERP) paradigm. Seven‐month‐old infants (n = 23) were tested in a rapid repetition ERP paradigm. Trials consisted of two consecutive stimuli: prime and target. Different ERP parameters (Nc, PSW) were compared across human and furniture items and for repeated and unrepeated categories. The PSW was consistently enhanced for unrepeated compared to repeated categories, thus indicating category discrimination. Nc amplitude was enhanced for furniture primes compared to huma...
Source: Infant and Child Development - August 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Stefanie Peykarjou, Julia Wissner, Sabina Pauen Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Identification of prenatal behavioral patterns of the gross motor movements within the early stages of fetal development
Abstract
Little is known about the manner in which motor behavior of the gross motor movements develops in early fetal period. Therefore, the goal of this study was to identify and classify the fetal distinct behavior patterns of the gross motor movements qualitatively in gestational weeks 10 through 17 (N = 69 fetuses). Using our unique Systematic Observation and Analysis Procedure based on conventional 2D ultrasound, we were able to identify the distinct behavior patterns with respect to the fetus' orientation (e.g., postural position and additional support by uterine wall) in real time and therefore distinguish 12 cat...
Source: Infant and Child Development - August 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Elisabeth J.J.M. Merendonk, Jeroen J.W.M. Brouwers, Luc De Catte, Danielle Hasaerts, Maria W.G. Nijhuis ‐van der Sanden, Eric Kerckhofs Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Cognitive biases among early adolescents with elevated symptoms of anxiety, depression, and co ‐occurring symptoms of anxiety‐depression
Abstract
Anxiety and depression are often highly correlated in adolescence, and cognitive biases are commonly associated with both types of symptoms. The purpose of this study was to examine cognitive biases in early adolescents showing: (a) elevated symptoms of anxiety; (b) elevated symptoms of depression; (c) elevated co‐occurring symptoms of anxiety and depression; and (d) neither elevated symptoms of anxiety nor depression (comparison group). In particular, we were interested in the extent to which certain cognitive biases showed symptom specificity. Participants were N = 686 10‐ to 14‐year‐olds, who provided...
Source: Infant and Child Development - August 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Murray Weeks, Robert J. Coplan, Laura L. Ooi Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mapping children's and adolescents' judgment rules for assessing the risk of disease transmission from sick friends
We examined the way children and adolescents judge the risk of contagion.
Five hundred eighty‐seven students aged 7–16 judged the risk of disease transmission in 28 scenarios of students visiting a sick friend that were composed according to a three within‐subject design: type of contact × type of disease × number of contacts. Six judgment rules were found. They were labeled “Contagion can never been ruled out,” “Depends on type of contact,” “Depends on type of disease,” “Depends simultaneously on contact and disease,” “Depends conjunctively on contact and disease,” and “Categorical th...
Source: Infant and Child Development - August 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Victor Mu ñoz Marco, Samuel Cano Martil, Maria Teresa Munoz Sastre, Paul C. Sorum, Etienne Mullet Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Racial/ethnic differences in kindergartners' reading and math skills: Parents' knowledge of children's development and home ‐based activities as mediators
This study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study‐Birth Cohort to examine the differences in Asian, Black, Latino, and White children's early reading and math skills at kindergarten entry and whether parents' knowledge of children's development and home‐based activities mediate the relation. Parents' knowledge of children's development was assessed when children were 9 months. Home‐based activities, including home literacy and enrichment, were assessed when children were preschool age. Asian and White children started kindergarten with significantly higher reading and math scores than Black or Latino ...
Source: Infant and Child Development - August 31, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Sonnenschein, Shuyan Sun Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
