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Çantas Ayar, Arzu; Kahriman, Ilknur; Küçük Alemdar, Dilek; Özoran, Yavuz – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aimed to compare the effect of using white noise, embracing, and facilitated tucking on heel lance blood sampling in newborns. The study was a randomized controlled trial. Newborns totalling 160 were included in the study. The primary outcomes were evaluated pain and crying durations before, during, and after the procedure. The…
Descriptors: Neonates, Acoustics, Pain, Crying
Zeng, Xiao; Yang, Lijun; Zhu, Xiaoqian; Zhou, Ke; Zhang, Juan; Yan, Zhiqiang – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Empathy is crucial for our social life, with evidences suggesting that executive function is the cognitive basis of empathy. However, debates about the causal relationship between executive function and empathy still exist. A two-wave and one-year longitudinal follow-up experiment is conducted to investigate this problem, mainly focusing on…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Empathy, Child Development
Li, Ishien; Shen, Pao-Sheng; Wu, Mei-Liang; Wang, Wenchun – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
With a non-clinical sample of pre-schoolers, we used partial least squares regression to assess the extent to which children's seven sensory regulatory factors (X) account for variations in the three temperament factors (Y) and Y explains variations in X. The results suggested predicting temperament factors from sensory processing factors receive…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sensory Experience, Personality, Early Childhood Education
Soydan, Sema Büyüktaskapu; Akalin, Nihal – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study investigated the moderating effect of the self-regulation skills of children on their temperamental traits and on the mother's parenting behaviour. The random sampling method was used to obtain the study's participants: 253 children attending pre-school and their mothers. Research data was collected using the 'The child behaviour list…
Descriptors: Self Control, Child Behavior, Personality Traits, Parent Child Relationship
Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Morelli, Mara; Laghi, Fiorenzo – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The present study examined the way in which behavioural difficulties in cool and hot EFs relate to measures of cognitive and affective ToM in preschoolers. A total of 144 children between 35 and 71 months were assessed with a first-order false-belief task (measuring cognitive ToM), the Test of Emotion Comprehension (measuring affective ToM) and a…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Short Term Memory, Preschool Children
Metin Aslan, Özge; Altinisik, Yasin – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim of this study was to explore the moderating role of mother-child relationships (closeness and conflict) in the relations between children's anxiety and play behaviour in the sample of Turkish preschool children. Participants were N = 211 children (117 boys, M age = 64.08 months, SD = 12.26) attending preschool from suburban areas in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Anxiety
Davis, Fairfax; Burns-Nader, Sherwood – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Medical play is a play that involves medical themes and is used to familiarize children with the medical world. Few studies have examined medical play outside of the hospital or the affect displayed during medical play. This study examined differences in affect in non-hospitalized children participating in medical pretend play as compared to…
Descriptors: Play, Medicine, Affective Behavior, Imagination
Shapiro, Alyson F.; Jolley, Sandra N.; Hildebrandt, Ursula; Spieker, Susan J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Research linking postpartum depression (PPD) with negative child outcomes has predominantly examined PPD at six weeks postpartum or later, and has not controlled for depression during pregnancy. The present study examined associations between PPD at three weeks postpartum and temperament in 6-month-old infants in a sample of women who were not…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Females
Karjalainen, Satu – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine children's performed joy in their everyday peer relations in early childhood education (ECE) settings. The theoretical and methodological frameworks draw on a narrative approach, the postmodern formulations of emotions and Erwin Goffman's dramaturgical perspectives in children's everyday social relations.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Peer Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Markodimitraki, Maria; Kalpidou, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
We investigated the continuity and stability of imitative episodes (IMEs) to shed light on the nature of early infant imitative ability. We observed and analyzed interactions of 27 mother-infant pairs as they played in their homes at one and 10 months. We coded the initiator, frequency, duration, kind, structure, and affect of IMEs. At 10 months,…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Kim, Yunhee; McMullen, Mary Benson – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The current study focuses on infants' sleep-wake states in group child care and relations of those states to infant-caregiver interactions. Qualitative case studies were conducted with four infants (3-7 months old) in an infant room at a child care centre. Video-recordings were the main format for data collection with the four infants and video…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Child Care Centers, Video Technology
Whitehead, Patrick – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The author argues for a functionalist understanding of autism. Instead of explaining autism as an inborn or otherwise neurological deficit, autism may be understood as a functional disturbance: the impairment of the abstract attitude. The abstract attitude is a concept developed by German neuropsychiatrist Kurt Goldstein (1987-1965) to describe…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Children
Kian, Farnaz; Etemadi, Ozra; Bahrami, Fatemeh – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The present study investigates parenting styles in Iranian mothers with avoidant attachment style. The sample of this study were 15 mothers of children aged 1-6 living in Hamedan city, Iran with avoidant attachment style. The sample was first screened using the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS). Mothers were interviewed using s semi-structured…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes
Castrillón, Nancy – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this theoretical paper is to think about the emotional link that a mother establishes with her sick and disabled child as a creation of an artwork of care, which involves a process of comprehending and transforming the feelings of guilt, rejection, shame, pain and uncertainty regarding the presence of that child. In addition, the art…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Child Rearing
Godin, Julie; Freeman, Andrew; Rigby, Patty – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate limited playfulness. Their difficulty engaging in meaningful interaction with others renders playful engagement in social interactions a challenge. Although little direct evidence exists regarding the promotion of these children's playful engagement, links can be established with many traits…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Play, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders