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Look at Grandma! Joint visual attention over video chat during the COVID-19 pandemic Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lauren J. Myers, Gabrielle A. Strouse, Elisabeth R. McClure, Krystyna R. Keller, Lucinda I. Neely, Isabella Stoto, Nithya S. Vadakattu, Erin D. Kim, Georgene L. Troseth, Rachel Barr, Jennifer M. Zosh
Social interactions are crucial for many aspects of development. One developmentally important milestone is joint visual attention (JVA), or shared attention between child and adult on an object, person, or event. Adults support infants’ development of JVA by structuring the input they receive, with the goal of infants learning to use JVA to communicate. When family members are separated from the infants
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It’s You and Me: Infants’ cross-modal communicative signals and mother-infant interactive behavior predict infant regulatory patterns in the still-face paradigm at 3 months Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Marina Fuertes, Rita Almeida, Inês Martelo, Miguel Barbosa, Marjorie Beeghly
Infant regulatory behavior develops since birth and impacts their early social interactions. Infants differ in the relative coherence and incoherence of their cross-modal communicative signals during infant-caregiver interactions. We expand this research by evaluating whether different infant regulatory patterns observed during the Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) at 3 months are associated with the
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Relationship between maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Joana del Hoyo-Bilbao, Izaskun Orue
Research has indicated that maternal anxiety does have an effect on infant temperament. Therefore, it is important to study the variables that could play a role in this relationship. In this study, we propose that mindful parenting could act as a mediator in this relationship. Thus, the main objective was to evaluate the relationship between maternal anxiety and child temperament (i.e., negative affectivity
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The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Didar Karadağ, Marina Bazhydai, Sümeyye Koşkulu-Sancar, Hilal H. Şen
Infants actively initiate social interactions aiming to elicit different types of responses from other people. This study aimed to document a variety of communicative interactions initiated by 18-month-old Turkish infants from diverse SES ( = 43) with their caregivers in their natural home settings. The infant-initiated interactions such as use of deictic gestures (e.g., pointing, holdouts), action
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Let’s make music as we normally do: A systematic review of how early natural musical interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in research Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Beatriz Cavero, Pastora Martínez-Castilla, Ruth Campos
Musical interactions between babies and their primary caregivers are very frequent during the early years of life and their impact on dyadic interaction and infants’ development has garnered significant attention in recent literature. However, the difficulties that natural observations entail have meant that research often carries out methodological manipulations that have a significant impact on the
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Breakdowns and repairs: Communication initiation and effectiveness in infants with and without an older sibling with autism Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Samantha Plate, Jana M. Iverson
Infants initiate interactions to get their wants and needs met; but sometimes they are not effective in their communication and are misunderstood by caregivers. When this happens, they must recognize this breakdown in communication and attempt repairs. Experimental literature suggests that in neurotypically developing infants these skills develop during the first two years. However, little work has
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Focused attention as a new sitter: How do infants balance it all? Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michele Gonçalves Maia, Sapir Soker-Elimaliah, Karl Jancart, Regina T. Harbourne, Sarah E. Berger
This study investigated the impact of postural control on infants’ Focused Attention (FA). Study 1 examined whether and how sitting independently versus with support impacted 6- to 8-month-old infants’ ability to focus attention during object exploration. FA measures did not depend on support condition. However, sitting experience was significantly negatively correlated with FA measures in the supported
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Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Megan A. Taylor, Stefany Coxe, Eliza L. Nelson
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Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Elena Nicoladis, Poliana G. Barbosa
Infants often start pointing toward the end of their first year of life. Pointing shows a strong link to language, perhaps because parents label what infants point to. In the present study, we tested whether 9-month-olds’ pointing was related to parental sensitivity and concurrent and subsequent vocabulary scores. Observations were made of 88 9-month-old infants in free-play situations with their mothers
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Mother-infant self- and interactive contingency at four months and infant cognition at one year: A view from microanalysis Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Beatrice Beebe, Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova, Sang Han Lee, Georgios Dougalis, Frances Champagne, Virginia Rauh, Molly Algermissen, Julie Herbstman, Amy E. Margolis
Although a considerable literature documents associations between early mother-infant interaction and cognitive outcomes in the first years of life, few studies examine the contributions of contingently coordinated mother-infant interaction to infant cognitive development. This study examined associations between the temporal dynamics of the contingent coordination of mother-infant face-to-face interaction
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The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Maria JAJ Fleurkens-Peeters, Wilco CWR Zijlmans, Reinier P. Akkermans, Maria WG Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Anjo JWM Janssen
To determine if the United States reference values of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, version III motor scale are suitable for Surinamese infants, we assessed 151 healthy infants at 3, 12, 24 and 36 months of age. The mean fine motor, gross motor, and composite scores of the total group did not significantly differ from the US norms, although some significant but not clinically
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The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Christina Davidson, Aimee Theyer, Ghada Amaireh, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar
Visual working memory (VWM) emerges in the first year of life and has far-reaching implications for academic and later life outcomes. Given that caregivers play a significant role in shaping cognitive function in children, it is important to understand how they might impact VWM development as early as infancy. The current study investigated whether caregivers’ efficiency of regulating inhibitory control
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Finding a secure base: Exploring children’s attachment behaviors with professional caregivers during the first months of daycare Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Alessia Macagno, Paola Molina
Recent decades have seen a major rise in demand for daycare services for children aged 0 to 3 years, and this has increased research interest in the child-professional caregiver relationship at daycare centers: How does the relationship between children and their new caregivers develop over time? How long does it take for children to settle in at daycare? What variables can influence the settling-in
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When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Brooke Edelman, Tamara Del Vecchio
Physical aggression in toddlerhood is empirically linked to anger and often conceptualized as a byproduct of frustration and related negative affect. Further, parenting is the major environmental construct implicated in the development of aggressive behaviors. Given parents’ role as “external regulators,” parents’ responses to their toddlers’ negative affect may serve to escalate or de-escalate their
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Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Merve Ataman-Devrim, Jean Quigley, Elizabeth Nixon
The current study investigates Joint Attention (JA) characteristics (duration, frequency, source of initiation, type of JA, agent of termination, missed and unsuccessful episodes) in preterm and full-term toddlers’ interactions with their mothers and fathers, separately. Thirty-one singleton full-term (age = 24.07 months, = 1.45; 13 boys) and 17 singleton preterm toddlers (adjustedage = 24.72 months
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The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Eugenia Wildt, Katharina J. Rohlfing
Research has shown that infants’ language development is influenced by their gaze following—an ability linked to their cognitive and social development. Following social learning approaches, this pilot study explored whether variations in gaze following and later vocabulary scores relate to early mother–infant interactions by focusing on the role of mothers’ gaze responsiveness in infants’ attentional
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Predictors of executive function among 2 year olds from a Thai birth cohort Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Pimjuta Nimmapirat, Nancy Fiedler, Panrapee Suttiwan, Margaret Wolan Sullivan, Pamela Ohman-Strickland, Parinya Panuwet, Dana Boyd Barr, Tippawan Prapamontol, Warangkana Naksen, for the SAWASDEE birth cohort investigative team
Executive function (EF) is a critical skill for academic achievement. Research on the psychosocial and environmental predictors of EF, particularly among Southeast Asian, agricultural, and low income/rural populations, is limited. Our longitudinal study explored the influence of agricultural environmental, psychosocial, and temperamental factors on children’s emerging EF. Three-hundred and nine farm
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Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Kimberley M. Hudspeth, Charlie Lewis
We re-examine whether the type of object played with influences parent-infant joint attention. A within-participants comparison of 24 parent-9-month-old dyads, used head-mounted eye-tracking to measure parental naming and infant attention during play with touchscreen apps on a touchscreen tablet or matched interactive toys. Infants engaged in sustained attention more to the toy than the tablet. Parents
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Referent-oriented interactions in infancy: A naturalistic, longitudinal case study from an English-speaking household Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Erica H. Wojcik, Meghan C. Pierce, Gracie Stevens, Sarah J. Goulding
Caregivers use a of combination labeling, pointing, object grasping, and gaze to communicate with infants about referents in their environment. By two years of age, children reliably use these referent-oriented cues to communicate and learn. While there is some evidence from lab-based studies that younger infants attend to and use referent-oriented cues during communication, some more naturalistic
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It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Laura Katus, Maria M. Crespo-Llado, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Mariama Saidykhan, Omar Njie, Tijan Fadera, Samantha McCann, Lena Acolatse, Marta Perapoch Amadó, Maria Rozhko, Sophie E. Moore, Clare E. Elwell, Sarah Lloyd-Fox, The BRIGHT Project Team
There is substantial diversity within and between contexts globally in caregiving practices and family composition, which may have implications for the early interaction’s infants engage in. We draw on data from the Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT, ) project, which longitudinally examined infants in the UK and in rural Gambia, West Africa. In The Gambia, households are commonly characterized
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Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Margaret A. Fields-Olivieri, Crystal E. Thinzar, Caroline K.P. Roben, Pamela M. Cole
Evidence that early parent-child conversation supports early language development suggests a need to understand factors that account for individual differences in parent-child conversation engagement. Whereas most studies focus on demographic factors, we investigated the role of toddler temperament in a longitudinal study of 120 economically strained families. Specifically, we investigated the degree
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A new online paradigm to measure spontaneous pointing in infants and caregivers Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Katharina Kaletsch, Ulf Liszkowski
Index-finger pointing is a milestone in the development of referential communication. Previous research has investigated infants’ pointing with a variety of paradigms ranging from parent reports to field observations to experimental settings, suggesting that lab-based semi-natural interactional settings seem especially suited to elicit and measure infant pointing. With the Covid-pandemic the need for
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The role of acoustic features of maternal infant-directed singing in enhancing infant sensorimotor, language and socioemotional development Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Raija-Leena Punamäki, Safwat Y. Diab, Konstantinos Drosos, Samir R. Qouta, Mervi Vänskä
The quality of infant-directed speech (IDS) and infant-directed singing (IDSi) are considered vital to children, but empirical studies on protomusical qualities of the IDSi influencing infant development are rare. The current prospective study examines the role of IDSi acoustic features, such as pitch variability, shape and movement, and vocal amplitude vibration, timbre, and resonance, in associating
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Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Ting Liu, Ping Zhou, Zhihong Zuo, Meng Fan, Yaoxuan Yang
This study investigated the association between parenting distress and four variables of young children’s social–emotional problems and competencies: externalizing, internalizing, and dysregulation problems, and social–emotional competencies, and whether parent–child dysfunctional interactions mediated these associations. Participants were Chinese toddlers ( = 711) aged 24–36 months in family (44.3%)
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Lower maternal emotional availability is related to increased attention toward fearful faces during infancy Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Eeva Eskola, Eeva-Leena Kataja, Jukka Hyönä, Hetti Hakanen, Saara Nolvi, Tuomo Häikiö, Juho Pelto, Hasse Karlsson, Linnea Karlsson, Riikka Korja
It has been suggested that infants’ age-typical attention biases for faces and facial expressions have an inherent connection with the parent–infant interaction. However, only a few previous studies have addressed this topic. To investigate the association between maternal caregiving behaviors and an infant’s attention for emotional faces, 149 mother–infant dyads were assessed when the infants were
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Stability of developmental milestones: Insights from a 44-year analysis Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tamara Fuschlberger, Eva Leitz, Friedrich Voigt, Günter Esser, Ronald G. Schmid, Volker Mall, Anna Friedmann
Using standardized test procedures is a reliable way of assessing early childhood development in the pediatric setting. However, normal population’s developmental parameters may change over time. The aim of this study was to determine whether a change of developmental percentiles is present in infants in Germany during recent decades. Measured by an established German diagnostic instrument (Münchener
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The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Sylvain Sirois, Julie Brisson, Erik Blaser, Giulia Calignano, Jamie Donenfeld, Robert Hepach, Jean-Rémy Hochmann, Zsuzsa Kaldy, Ulf Liszkowski, Marlena Mayer, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Sofia Russo, Eloisa Valenza
The rise of pupillometry in infant research over the last decade is associated with a variety of methods for data preprocessing and analysis. Although pupil diameter is increasingly recognized as an alternative measure of the popular cumulative looking time approach used in many studies (Jackson & Sirois, 2022), an open question is whether the many approaches used to analyse this variable converge
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Effectiveness of infant massage on babies growth, mother-baby attachment and mothers' self-confidence: A randomized controlled trial Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Zübeyde Ezgi Erçelik, Hatice Bal Yılmaz
Infant massage is a unique massage that can be application to babies in the postpartum period for centuries. While baby massage provides contact between the baby and the mother, it supports the growth processes of the baby. This study aimed to investigate the effects of online infant massage training on infant growth, mother-infant attachment, and mothers’ self-confidence. This randomized controlled
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Are changes in mothers’ representations of their infants related to changes in observed mother–infant interaction quality? Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Kjersti Sandnes, Silja B. Kårstad, Stian Lydersen, Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen
Infant mental health clinicians aiming to improve mother–infant dyads at risk typically target mothers’ representations of their infant or mother–infant interactions, assuming that one port of entry leads to change in the other. However, little is known about the relation between changes in mothers’ representations and in mother–infant interactions. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate
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Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Yu Chen, Natasha J. Cabrera, Stephanie M. Reich
Infants learn language through the back-and-forth interactions with their parents where they “serve” by uttering sounds, gesturing, or looking and parents “return” in prompt (i.e., close in time) and meaningful (i.e., semantically relevant to the object of interest) ways. In a sample of 9-month-old infants (n = 148) and their mothers and fathers (n = 296 parents) from ethnically and socioeconomically
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How does sensitivity influence early executive function? A critical review on hot and cool processes Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Cláudia Ramos, Alfredo F. Pereira, Amber Feher, Joana Baptista
There is compelling evidence that the quality of caregiver-child interactions during toddlerhood and the preschool years supports the development of executive function (EF) (Bernier et al., 2010; 2015; 2016; Fay-Stammbach et al., 2014; Geeraerts et al., 2021). Based on such findings, we make the case herein that sensitivity may be one of the most important dimensions of parenting contributing to early
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Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 G. Ballarotto, L. Murray, L. Bozicevic, E. Marzilli, L. Cerniglia, S. Cimino, R. Tambelli
During the second year of life, children's need for autonomy grows, and their behaviors become increasingly complex. Parental sensitivity to children’s different cues is important in supporting adaptive psycho-emotional development. The present study assumes that mothers and fathers may respond with varying levels of sensitivity to the child’s different cues, with particular attention to requests for
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Story stems in early mother-infant interaction promote pretend play at 30 months Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Anne Christine Stuart, Sandra R. Gufler, Anne Tharner, Mette Skovgaard Væver
During early childhood, play develops through levels of sensory exploration and manipulation, to functional activities and during the second year of life to the level of pretend and symbolic play. However, little is known about the factors contributing to individual variations in the development of play. The present study investigated associations between maternal sensitivity and play conditions with
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Infant fearful distress, parent intrusiveness, and adversity in families experiencing homelessness Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Marissa F. Mulvey, Janette E. Herbers, Kristin J. Jennings, Rahma Goran, Abigail C. Knight
Infants experiencing homelessness face risk for developing mental health problems in the future. Parents residing in shelters experience adverse events at elevated rates compared to non-homeless individuals, which can impact their infants during a time of rapid development depending on how the parent copes. For some, trauma linked to these events may manifest in an intrusive parenting style that interferes
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Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jason M. Gibbs, Nicki L. Aubuchon-Endsley
Perinatal maternal depression, anxiety, and stress are associated with poor infant outcomes. However, no known study has investigated the effects of perinatal maternal obsessive-compulsive symptomatology on infant outcomes while considering important situational factors such as socioeconomic resources. Therefore, we investigated the effects of prenatal and postnatal obsessive-compulsive symptomatology
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Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Nadine Doennecke, Janin Brandenburg, Claudia Maehler
Development tests are widely used in the scope of cross-cultural and comparative research to support intervention studies and health care projects concerning early childhood development. Therefore, it is crucial to use culturally sensitive assessment tools. A culturally adapted version of the German development test FREDI 0–3 (Maehler, Cartschau, & Rohleder, 2016) was used to assess a German (n = 405)
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Group well child care and risk for developmental delay: Preliminary findings among Asian immigrants Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Joan Jeung
Group well-child care (GWCC) may promote interactive caregiving and prevent developmental delay. Method: This cross-sectional study explored the association between GWCC attendance and odds for suspected developmental delay among low-income Asian immigrants as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)-III at age 18 months. Results: Odds for suspected developmental delay (OR=0.81, 95 % CI
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Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Yuran Lee, Seunghee Ha
Parental communication styles and language usage may undergo changes during the course of child development, exhibiting variations across language backgrounds and cultures. This study aimed to explore how infant-parent interactions within Korean-speaking environments evolve over time through meticulous coding of day-long home audio recordings. The study examined whether the ratio and types of parental
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Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Livia Branco Campos, Marina Kcrmar, Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório
Contradicting pediatric societies’ recommendations, studies show that screen exposure begins at the first year of life for many children worldwide, with parental needs, educational purposes, and parental stress emerging as associated factors. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has likely worsened this scenario. This study aims to: 1) estimate the average daily screen exposure time for Brazilian infants
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Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Iryna Babik, Andrea B. Cunha, Sudha Srinivasan
Disruptive biological and environmental factors may undermine the development of children’s motor and sensorimotor skills. Since the development of cognitive skills, including executive function, is grounded in early motor and sensorimotor experiences, early delays or impairments in motor and sensorimotor processing often trigger dynamic developmental cascades that lead to suboptimal executive function
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Ecological momentary assessment of parent-child attachment via technological devices: A systematic methodological review Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Marie Bischoff, Silke Schmidt, Holger Muehlan, Sabina Ulbricht, Matthias Heckmann, Neeltje van den Berg, Hans J. Grabe, Samuel Tomczyk
Despite extensive research about parent-child attachment using observational and self-report studies, complementary measures are needed to assess this construct objectively with ecological validity, as well as less obtrusiveness and reactivity than traditional measures. This systematic review describes existing technology-based ecologically momentary assessment (EMA) tools examining attachment-related
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Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Denisa Manková, Soňa Švancarová, Eliška Štenclová
Breastfeeding brings many benefits to both mother and infant. Although, many women stop breastfeeding their infants too soon. The perceived association between breastfeeding and sleep may influence their decision to terminate breastfeeding. In our systematic review, we focused on mapping the relationship between infant feeding method and total sleep time (TST), number of nocturnal awakenings, awakenings
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Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19 Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Marina Kammermeier, Markus Paulus
During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks became an effective hygienic measure to reduce infection rates. Given the relevance of facial expressions for social interactions, the question arises how face masks affect early social interactions. The current longitudinal study investigated how covering parts of the face might impact infants’ responses to others’ emotional expressions. Infants who were born
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When I move, you move: Associations between automatic and person-coded measures of infant-mother synchrony during free-play using virtual in-home data collection Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Jacqueline Hammack, Mini Sharma, Lindsey Riera-Gomez, Hila Z. Gvirts, Teresa Wilcox
The relationship between movement synchrony and global scores of behavioral synchrony were investigated during a naturalistic free-play between 33 infants (ages 12- to 24-months) and their mothers using a video-conferencing platform. We assessed movement synchrony by applying an automatic tool, motion-energy analysis (MEA), to the obtained video data. Dyadic movement synchrony was associated with higher
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Imitation among infants in a day-care center and the development of locomotion Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Noriko Toyama
To examine the relationship between imitation and locomotor development among peers during infancy, we observed free play in a class of infants in a day-care center over a one-year period. The analysis included 16 infants (mean age was 8.3 months (SD=2.3) at the beginning of the observation) and 5 caregivers. The longitudinal data were divided into the crawling, cruising, and walking periods, and the
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Possible contribution of better maternal psychological well-being to the acquisition of sleeping through the night in infants during the early postpartum period Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Mayuko Kumagai, Hitomi Shinohara, Hideya Kodama
The objective of this study was to elucidate whether better maternal psychological well-being contributes to the acquisition of “sleeping through the night” (STN) in infants during the early postpartum period. Fifty-two primiparous mothers completed the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) in the third trimester (prenatal) and when the conceptional ages of their babies reached 8–9 weeks (hereafter
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Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Noor de Waal, Myrthe G.B.M. Boekhorst, Ivan Nyklíček, Victor J.M. Pop
The first 1000 days after conception are considered critical for healthy development and well-being throughout life. Fundamental to health practices during pregnancy and positive parenting after birth is the development of maternal-infant bonding. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of having an involved partner during pregnancy and in parenting for optimal maternal-infant bonding. The
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Effects of massage intervention on discharged premature infants’ weight, parental stress, and parent–child attachment: A randomized controlled trial Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Lien-Jen Hwu, Ya-Ling Tzeng, Yu-Kuei Teng, Shu-Juan Liu
Infant massage enhances the growth and development of premature infants and promotes parent–child bonding. However, its effects on parental stress and parent–child attachment in premature infants, as well as gender differences thereof, remain unclear. In this randomized controlled trial, we used a repeated-measures design and included 61 premature infants (mean gestational age: 35.1 ± 1.5 weeks). Weight
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Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared? Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Jessica Pearson, Gabrielle Fréchette-Boilard, Claire Baudry, Célia Matte-Gagné, Annie Bernier, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, George M. Tarabulsy
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous stressors among the general population, but more specifically in pregnant women because of disruptions in prenatal care and delivery conditions. Studies suggest that prenatal maternal stress increased during the pandemic (Berthelot et al., 2020; Perzow et al., 2021; Tomfohr-Madsen et al., 2021). Considering what is known about the fetal programming potential
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Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviors by 7-month-old infants Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Alessandra Geraci, Laura Franchin, Silvia Benavides-Varela
Environmental morality is the foundation of a sustainable future, yet its ontogenetic origin remains unknown. In the present study, we asked whether 7-month-olds have a sense of ‘environmental morality’. Infants’ evaluations of two pro-environmental actions were assessed in both visual and reaching preferential tasks. In Experiment 1, the overt behavior of protecting (i.e., collecting artificial objects
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The relationship between pitch contours in infant-directed speech and early signs of autism in infancy Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
Purpose Mother-infant interactions during the first year of life are crucial to healthy infant development. The infant-directed speech (IDS), and specifically pitch contours, used by mothers during interactions are associated with infant language and social development. However, little research has examined pitch contours towards infants with socio-communication and language differences, such as those
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Maternal mind-mindedness over infants’ first three months Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-16
Maternal mind-mindedness refers to mothers’ ability to reflect upon their infants’ mental states and respond appropriately. The present study assessed mind-mindedness longitudinally from the newborn period to the infant age of three months. The study is the first to assess maternal mind-mindedness in the infant’s early life prior to three months (one week, one month, two months, three months). To measure
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Examining implications of the developmental timing of maternal trauma for prenatal and newborn outcomes Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Parisa R. Kaliush, Patricia K. Kerig, K. Lee Raby, Sarah E. Maylott, Dylan Neff, Bailey Speck, Nicolette C. Molina, Ashley E. Pappal, Uma D. Parameswaran, Elisabeth Conradt, Sheila E. Crowell
Separate literatures have demonstrated that mothers’ experiences with trauma during childhood or pregnancy are associated with maternal prenatal health risks, adverse childbirth outcomes, and offspring internalizing and externalizing disorders. These literatures largely align with the intergenerational transmission or fetal programming frameworks, respectively. However, few studies have tested the
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Fetal SSRI antidepressant exposure and infant sleep: Findings from the MPEWS pregnancy cohort study Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Megan Galbally, Stuart J. Watson, Thinh Nguyen, Philip Boyce
This longitudinal study examines the association between fetal Selective Serotonergic Reuptake Inhibitor antidepressant exposure and infant sleep behaviours at six and 12 months of age and focus on three of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants in pregnancy. This study utilises data on 698 women recruited at less than 20 weeks of pregnancy and are followed up at six and 12 months postpartum
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The effects of live parental infant-directed singing on infants, parents, and the parent-infant dyad: A systematic review of the literature Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Kirsten M. Sharman, Kane Meissel, Annette M.E. Henderson, Josie E. Tait
Singing to infants is widely accepted as an enjoyable, positive, and beneficial interaction between the parent and infant across cultures. Whilst the literature suggests that live infant-directed singing impacts the infant, the parent doing the singing and the dyad in powerful ways, no systematic review of the evidence has yet been conducted. To this end, this systematic review identified 21 studies
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Changes in patterns of Early Mother-Child Interaction: A longitudinal study of the first 18 months of life Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Laura Patricia Perea-Velasco, María Teresa Martínez-Fuentes, Julio Pérez-López
Objective The main objective of the present longitudinal study is to describe the progression of early adult-child interactions between the first and second years of life. Changes identified in interactions are described, focusing on both the qualitative aspects of maternal responses, as well as maternal response latency to the child's behavior using a microanalytical methodology that collected data
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Parent-infant co-regulation: Ethological, ecological, and cultural approaches Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Koichi Negayama, Jonathan Delafield-Butt, Hiroko Norimatsu
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Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Melissa Susko, Vickie L. Armstrong, Jessica A. Brian, Susan E. Bryson, Azadeh Kushki, Lori-Ann R. Sacrey, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Isabel M. Smith
Infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit more negative affect and avoidance behaviour than typically developing infants, and children with ASD express fear differently than typically developing peers. We examined behavioural reactions to emotion-evoking stimuli in infants at increased familial likelihood for ASD. Participants included 55 increased likelihood (IL) infants
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The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Madeleine Bruce, Briana Ermanni, Martha Ann Bell
Executive functions (EF) develop rapidly across early childhood and play a prominent role in promoting adaptive outcomes later in development. Although the existing literature suggests that the development of early EF is sensitive to the influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, limited research has examined the joint contributions of multiple child and contextual factors in infancy/toddlerhood
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The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial Infant Behav. Dev. (IF 2.671) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Christy D. Wolfe, Martha Ann Bell
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