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Direct linkAnn E. Bigelow – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Maternal mind-mindedness, which examines mothers' representational capacity to treat their children as individuals with their own minds, has traditionally been operationalized by coding mothers' mental state comments to or about their children. Mind-mindedness has been studied predominantly in Western cultures, where it predicts children's…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Download full textNoviy Hasanah; Rina Hermawati; Rini Soemarwoto; Budiawati Supangkat – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose. This study investigates "manjujai," a traditional Minangkabau parenting practice, as a culturally embedded method of early childhood care and education. The research aims to uncover the meaning and function of "manjujai"--specifically its role in transmitting cultural values, historical narratives, and…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Cultural Influences, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Dashiell 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
Georgia Tuohy; Herbert Ainamani; Brenda Kakai; Eunice Nydareeba; Josephine Paricia; John Sajabi; Carlo Vreden; Lynda Boothroyd; Zanna Clay – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Cultural learning environments and gender roles play a key role in shaping children's development, particularly regarding their social and emotional skills. However, most work on this topic relies on methods that overlook lived experiences and assume high participant literacy, which may not apply to Majority World contexts. To address these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Role, Mothers, Experience
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
Allison Frost; Elissa Scherer; Esther O. Chung; John A. Gallis; Kate Sanborn; Yunji Zhou; Ashley Hagaman; Katherine LeMasters; Siham Sikander; Elizabeth Turner; Joanna Maselko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Maternal depression is a global public health concern with far-reaching impacts on child development, yet our understanding of mechanisms remains incomplete. This study examined whether parenting mediates the association between maternal depression and child outcomes. Participants included 841 rural Pakistani mother-child dyads (50% female).…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parenting Styles, Child Development
Ignitius Ezekiel Lim; Ilias Mahmud; Md. Uzzal Chowdhury; Adrita Kaiser; Fatema Akter Bonny; Samson Akanbonga; Md. Tanvir Hasan – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Despite initiatives by key actors in the last two decades, Early Childhood Development in Ghana, measured by physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional development of children up to 8 years of age, remains poor. This study aimed to assess Ghana's Early Childhood Development (ECD) status and determinants by analyzing the Ghana Multiple…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Christine Carrig – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2025
In 1951, when Maria Montessori described the pattern of human development as the Constructive Rhythm of Life, marking each of four chapters or planes of development with an inverted triangle, she colored the first and third planes red to represent their intensity (Grazzini, 1996). These two red triangles are referred to as creative periods and…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Individual Development, Adults, Developmental Stages
Petry, Isabela; Trettim, Jéssica Puchalski; de Matos, Mariana Bonati; Rubin, Bárbara Borges; Scholl, Carolina Coelho; Firpo, Pedro de Oliveira; Pinheiro, Karen Amaral Tavares; Quevedo, Luciana de Avila; Ghisleni, Gabriele Cordenonzi; Tavares Pinheiro, Ricardo; Motta, Janaína Vieira dos Santos – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This was a cross-sectional study that aimed to evaluate the association between breastfeeding and motor development of infants at 3-4 months of age in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. The outcome, infant motor development, was evaluated through the Bayley Scale of Infant Development (Bayley III). The prevalence of infants that stopped…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Motor Development, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSheila Lopez; Nicole R. Giuliani; Anna Cecilia McWhirter – Grantee Submission, 2024
Self-regulation in early childhood, including the ability to regulate one's own thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, are associated with a range of outcomes including academic performance, and social development. Research has extensively examined the effects of mother's parental involvement and parenting experiences, such as parenting stress and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship, Self Control
Santiago Morales; Maureen E. Bowers; Lauren Shuffrey; Katherine Ziegler; Sonya Troller-Renfree; Alexis Hernandez; Stephanie C. Leach; Monica McGrath; Cindy Ola; Leslie D. Leve; Sara S. Nozadi; Margaret M. Swingler; Jin-Shei Lai; Julie B. Schweitzer; William Fifer; Carlos A. Camargo Jr.; Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey; Allison L. B. Shapiro; Daniel P. Keating; Tina V. Hartert; Sean Deoni; Assiamira Ferrara; Amy J. Elliott – Developmental Psychology, 2024
A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Attainment, Child Development, Thinking Skills
Noora Hyysalo; Minna Sorsa; Eeva Holmberg; Riikka Korja; Elysia Poggi Davis; Eveliina Mykkänen; Marjo Flykt – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Maternal substance use and unpredictable maternal sensory signals may affect child development, but no studies have examined them together. We explored the unpredictability, frequency and duration of maternal sensory signals in 52 Caucasian mother-child dyads, 27 with and 25 without maternal substance use. We also examined the association between…
Descriptors: Mothers, Substance Abuse, Child Development, Correlation
Nia R. Barbee; Anne L. Dunlop; Elizabeth Corwin; Patricia A. Brennan – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
The proposed study sought to investigate whether maternal experiences of racial discrimination and gendered racial stress are associated with offspring executive functioning. Total 266 Black mother-child pairs in the United States were assessed from pregnancy through child age of 4 years. We hypothesized that children whose mothers reported higher…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racism, Executive Function, Children
Kaveri K. Sheth; Naja Ferjan Ramírez – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Research on "parentese," the acoustically exaggerated, slower, and higher-pitched speech directed toward infants, has mostly focused on maternal contributions, although it has long been known that fathers also produce parentese. Given recent societal changes in family dynamics, it is necessary to revise these mother-centered models of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Syntax
