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Direct linkDashiell D. Sacks; Viviane Valdes; Carol L. Wilkinson; April R. Levin; Charles A. Nelson; Michelle Bosquet Enlow – Child Development, 2025
Aperiodic electroencephalography (EEG) activity is hypothesized to index biological mechanisms that underpin brain functioning. This longitudinal study characterized the developmental trajectories of the aperiodic slope (i.e., aperiodic exponent) and offset from infancy to 7 years of age in a US community sample (N = 391, 46.5% female,…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Katherine Edler; Sarah Hoegler Dennis; Lijuan Wang; Kristin Valentino; Patrick T. Davies; E. Mark Cummings – Child Development, 2025
Longitudinal study of associations between family-level emotion socialization and adolescent adjustment is limited. When American children (53.5% girls) were in second grade (N = 213; M[subscript age] = 7.98; data collected 2002-2003), mothers and fathers (79.8% of mothers and 74.2% of fathers were White) reported on their reactions to children's…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Socialization, Adolescents, Grade 2
Anahid Akbaryan; Reese C. Burkey; Peter J. Ramirez; Ashley L. Walker; JungWon Choi; Sejal Mistry-Patel; Jennifer L. Kling; Rebecca J. Brooker – Child Development, 2025
Despite well-documented behavioral changes, the development of neuropsychological substrates underlying inhibitory control remains unknown, hindering understanding of this construct over time. Stability and change in N2, a neural correlate of inhibitory control, and its crosslagged, bidirectional associations with maternal emotion characteristics…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Behavior Development, Inhibition, Mothers
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
McDermott, Elana R.; Jahromi, Laudan B.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Martinez-Fuentes, Stefanie; Jones, Shandra M.; Updegraff, Kimberly A. – Child Development, 2021
Drawing on data from a longitudinal study of 204 Mexican-origin adolescent mothers, their mother figures, and their children, the current investigation examined (a) adolescent mothers' educational re-engagement and attainment beginning during their pregnancy and ending when their child was 5 years old; and (b) the influence of the family economic…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescents, Mothers, Early Parenthood
Fish Oil Supplementation in Pregnancy and Neurodevelopment in Childhood--A Randomized Clinical Trial
Sass, Laerke; Bjarnadóttir, Elín; Stokholm, Jakob; Chawes, Bo; Vinding, Rebecca K.; Mora-Jensen, Anna-Rosa C.; Thorsen, Jonathan; Noergaard, Sarah; Ebdrup, Bjørn H.; Jepsen, Jens R.M.; Fagerlund, Birgitte; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Lauritzen, Lotte; Bisgaard, Hans – Child Development, 2021
A double-blind randomized controlled trial of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 LCPUFA) supplementation or matching placebo during third trimester of pregnancy was conducted within the COPSAC[subscript 2010] mother-child cohort consisting of 736 women and their children. The objective was to determine if maternal n-3 LCPUFA pregnancy…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Randomized Controlled Trials, Prenatal Influences, Mothers
Ophélie A. Collet; Massimiliano Orri; Cédric Galéra; Laura Pryor; Michel Boivin; Richard Tremblay; Sylvana Côté – Child Development, 2024
We investigated whether child temperament (negative emotionality, 5 months) moderated the association between maternal stimulation (5 months--2½ years) and academic readiness and achievement (vocabulary, mathematics, and reading). We applied structural equation modeling to the data from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (N =…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Personality, Psychological Patterns, School Readiness
Coffey, Joseph R.; Shafto, Carissa L.; Geren, Joy C.; Snedeker, Jesse – Child Development, 2022
Previous studies have found correlations between parent input and child language outcomes, providing prima facie evidence for a causal relation. However, this could also reflect the effects of shared genes. The present study removed this genetic confound by measuring English vocabulary growth in 29 preschool-aged children (21 girls) aged…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistic Input, Child Language, English
Harkness, Susan; Gregg, Paul; Fernández-Salgado, Mariña – Child Development, 2020
This article assessed changes in the association between single motherhood and children's verbal cognitive ability at age-11 using data from three cohorts of British children, born in 1958 (n = 10,675), 1970 (n = 8,933) and 2000 (n = 9,989), and mediation analysis. Consistent with previous studies, direct effects were small and insignificant. For…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, One Parent Family, Mothers, Verbal Ability
Rachael W. Cheung; Chloe Austerberry; Pasco Fearon; Marianna E. Hayiou-Thomas; Leslie D. Leve; Daniel S. Shaw; Jody M. Ganiban; Misaki N. Natsuaki; Jenae M. Neiderhieser; David Reiss – Child Development, 2024
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Jennifer E. Lansford; Laura Gorla; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Jeremy D. W. Clifton; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini – Child Development, 2025
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is "Good" and "Enticing." Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers
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
Burling, Joseph M.; Yoshida, Hanako – Child Development, 2019
Manual skills slowly develop throughout infancy and have been shown to create clear views of objects that provide better support for visually sustained attention, recognition, memory, and learning. These clear views may coincide with the development of manual skills, or that social scaffolding supports clear viewing experiences like those…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Infants, Skill Development, Attention Control
Magro, Sophia W.; Fraley, R. Chris; Roisman, Glenn I. – Child Development, 2020
Although teacher-student relationships are assumed to in part reflect early caregiving quality, their social provisions also undergo notable normative change over the course of primary school, shifting from a secure base for social exploration to an instrumental relationship centered on achieving academic goals. This report leveraged prospective,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students
Niedzwiecka, Alicja; Ramotowska, Sonia; Tomalski, Przemyslaw – Child Development, 2018
Efficient attention control is fundamental for infant cognitive development, but its early precursors are not well understood. This study investigated whether dyadic visual attention during parent-infant interactions at 5 months of age predicts the ability to control attention at 11 months of age (N = 55). Total duration of mutual gaze (MG) was…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Prediction
