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Temperament Ratings by Parents and Teachers as Predictors of Non-Verbal Ability in Argentinean Preschoolers 父母和老师的气质评分作为阿根廷学龄前儿童非语言能力的预测因子

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70059

Maria Julia Hermida, Sebastián Javier Lipina, María Soledad Segretin

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Examining the Effect of Household Pesticide Exposure on Infants' Temperament and Children's Behavioural and Emotional Problems 家庭农药暴露对婴儿气质及儿童行为和情绪问题的影响

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-10-20 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70058

Alexis Hernandez, Ixel Hernandez-Castro, Tingyu Yang, Genevieve F. Dunton, Shohreh Farzan, Carrie Breton, Theresa Bastain, Santiago Morales

{"title":"Examining the Effect of Household Pesticide Exposure on Infants' Temperament and Children's Behavioural and Emotional Problems","authors":"Alexis Hernandez, Ixel Hernandez-Castro, Tingyu Yang, Genevieve F. Dunton, Shohreh Farzan, Carrie Breton, Theresa Bastain, Santiago Morales","doi":"10.1002/icd.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70058","url":null,"abstract":"Few studies have examined the developmental pathways linking early pesticide exposure to children's socioemotional problems. Infant temperament is an important early indicator of socioemotional development and may be influenced by early environmental contaminants. However, no study to date has examined the association between household pesticide exposure and temperament in relation to later socioemotional problems. The current study examined the association between early exposure to household pesticides and infants' temperament, and if temperament mediated the link between early pesticide exposure and later socioemotional problems. Results revealed that greater early pesticide exposure predicted higher infant negative affectivity, which in turn predicted more internalizing and total problems in childhood. We observed indirect effects between greater early household pesticide exposure and higher internalizing and total problems through negative affectivity. Our results build on existing literature that highlights the need to find alternatives to household pesticides during sensitive periods to support healthier socioemotional development.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Temporal Variation in Preschoolers' Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and the Use of Behavioural Emotion Regulation Strategies 学龄前儿童呼吸窦性心律失常的时间变异及行为情绪调节策略的应用

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-10-19 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70060

Yingying Tang, Tose Akinmola-Milone, Amy Bryan, Nicole B. Perry

{"title":"Temporal Variation in Preschoolers' Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and the Use of Behavioural Emotion Regulation Strategies","authors":"Yingying Tang, Tose Akinmola-Milone, Amy Bryan, Nicole B. Perry","doi":"10.1002/icd.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70060","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic fluctuations in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were modelled throughout an emotionally challenging laboratory task, and direct associations between temporal variation in RSA responding and the deployment of specific behavioural emotion regulation (ER) strategies were assessed. Sixty-three 2- to 6-year-old children (47% girls; Mage = 46.54 months, SDage = 12.70 months; 67% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 20% multiracial) exhibited ER behaviour and provided RSA data. Children's RSA exhibited U-shaped trajectories, such that RSA decreased before children implemented distraction, help-seeking, and venting behaviours, and the decline in RSA attenuated after strategies were implemented. This study is the first, to our knowledge, to concurrently couple temporal trajectories in RSA during an emotionally charged context with the onset of multiple behavioural regulation strategies. Findings significantly extend current literature by helping to elucidate the way in which parasympathetic and behavioural processes integrate in the regulation of emotion.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145317721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Who Should Play the Instrument?: Effects of Pitch and Loudness on Children's Gender Associations With Musical Instruments 谁应该演奏乐器？音高和响度对儿童乐器性别联想的影响

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70054

Brandon W. Rickett, Hayley B. Leopold, Haley E. Kragness

{"title":"Who Should Play the Instrument?: Effects of Pitch and Loudness on Children's Gender Associations With Musical Instruments","authors":"Brandon W. Rickett, Hayley B. Leopold, Haley E. Kragness","doi":"10.1002/icd.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Previous research has demonstrated early-emerging gender associations with musical instruments. We investigated whether pitch, loudness and size affect gender-instrument associations in older (Mage = 9.37 years, N = 57) and younger (Mage = 7.73 years, N = 63) children (approximately even gender split, mostly North American), as well as American undergraduates (Mage = 19.57 years, N = 50). Participants selected whether a girl or boy character should play fictional instruments with different pitch (high/low), volume (loud/soft) and size (large/small). Children were more likely to select boy characters for low- than high-pitched instruments (60% vs. 44%), as were adult undergraduates (79% vs. 54%). Older boys were also more likely to select boy characters for loud than soft instruments (68% vs. 52%). Size had no effect for any group. Results suggest pitch and loudness impact gender-instrument associations, and that gender associations are not restricted to gender-instrument pairings children have former experience with.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145223788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parenting Stress, Rather Than Gender Identity, Predicts Child Adjustment Among Children of Nonbinary and Binary Transgender Parents 非二元和二元跨性别父母的孩子适应父母压力，而不是性别认同

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70051

Samantha L. Tornello, Rachel G. Riskind, Lizbeth Benson

{"title":"Parenting Stress, Rather Than Gender Identity, Predicts Child Adjustment Among Children of Nonbinary and Binary Transgender Parents","authors":"Samantha L. Tornello, Rachel G. Riskind, Lizbeth Benson","doi":"10.1002/icd.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70051","url":null,"abstract":"Social scientists know little about the experiences of transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) parents and their children's development. In this study of 138 transgender parents (age M = 35.28 years; 86.2% White/European American) with binary (52.9%) and nonbinary (47.1%) gender identities, we explore the links between family processes and young children's (age M = 6.30 years; 86.2% White/European American assigned female at birth = 47.8%) internalising and externalising behaviours. Bayes Factors suggested moderate to strong evidence that children's development and family processes did not differ by parent gender identity. Many parents reported clinical levels of depressive symptoms. However, their children experience typical development despite high parental depressive symptomology. Parenting stress, not parent gender identity or depressive symptoms, was the only credible predictor of children's externalising, internalising and total behavioural adjustment (M = 0.3; BF = 1.9e + 7; M = 0.3; BF = 1.1e + 7; M = 0.3; BF = 4.1e + 10, respectively). The implications of these findings are relevant to healthcare providers, legal experts and professionals who work with children and families and contradict the practice of citing unsupported and unfounded concerns that TGNB parents' marginalised gender identity could harm their children's functioning.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145038210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring Sibling Cooperation Across Cultures: Indigenous Yurakaré and Polish Urban Children 探索跨文化的兄弟姐妹合作：土著尤拉卡人与波兰城市儿童

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70055

Natalia Siekiera, Arkadiusz Białek

{"title":"Exploring Sibling Cooperation Across Cultures: Indigenous Yurakaré and Polish Urban Children","authors":"Natalia Siekiera, Arkadiusz Białek","doi":"10.1002/icd.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Children develop cooperative behaviours within culturally specific social environments from an early age. This exploratory study analysed cooperation between siblings in two different cultural contexts: Yurakaré Indigenous community in Bolivia (N = 22; Mage = 5.31 years; 59.1% female) and urban Poland (N = 24; Mage = 4.86 years; 45.8% female). Mixed-age sibling dyads participated in a tower-building task designed to evaluate cooperative behaviours, focusing on verbal communication, attention management, and cooperation dynamics. Yurakaré siblings more often engaged in complementary actions and jointly built tower levels, whereas Polish siblings tended to construct levels individually and used approximately three times more verbal communication. The groups also differed in their attention management characteristics. Across both groups, fewer attentional shifts during the task were associated with older age. Although the sample size is small, this study provides novel insights into culture-specific cooperation and proposes new research procedures and hypotheses for future investigation.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145007936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Motherhood Through the Eyes of Turkish Mothers With Young Children 土耳其带小孩母亲眼中的母性

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70056

H. Kübra Özkan-Kunduracı, K. Büşra Kaynak-Ekici, Zeynep Kurtulmuş

{"title":"Motherhood Through the Eyes of Turkish Mothers With Young Children","authors":"H. Kübra Özkan-Kunduracı, K. Büşra Kaynak-Ekici, Zeynep Kurtulmuş","doi":"10.1002/icd.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Motherhood represents a significant phenomenon in the lives of many women, exerting influence not only on their personal experiences but also on the developmental processes of their children. The perception and meaning of motherhood can vary widely across different cultural contexts. This study aims to investigate Turkish mothers' perspectives on the role of motherhood through a phenomenological approach. The research involved a study group of 40 mothers residing in the city centre of Ankara, Türkiye, with infants aged 0 to 36 months. Data were gathered via semi-structured interviews using interview forms developed by the researchers. The collected data were subjected to content analysis and categorised accordingly. Findings reveal that Turkish mothers experience both positive and negative emotions concurrently regarding motherhood. Mothers viewed motherhood as a source of happiness; conversely, a prevalent concern among the participants was the fear of losing their babies. The participants noted significant changes in their lives due to motherhood. Furthermore, it was observed that families played a crucial supportive role for mothers in adapting to these changes during both prenatal and postnatal periods. The study suggests that motherhood, a biologically inherent aspect specific to women, is often perceived as a role laden with societal pressures and challenges. This perception is influenced by societal expectations and the roles imposed on women. Therefore, it is essential to provide comprehensive support to mothers throughout the prenatal and postnatal periods to address these challenges effectively.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144935361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Latinx Gay Fathers' Pathways to Parenthood, Social Stigma, Helpfulness of Social Relationships and Comfort Being Out: A Life Course Perspective 拉丁裔同性恋父亲的为人父母之路，社会耻辱，社会关系的帮助和出柜的安慰：一个生命历程的视角

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70052

Fernando Salinas-Quiroz, Elana R. McDermott, Ellen C. Perrin, Jocelyn Demos Utrera, Ellen E. Pinderhughes

{"title":"Latinx Gay Fathers' Pathways to Parenthood, Social Stigma, Helpfulness of Social Relationships and Comfort Being Out: A Life Course Perspective","authors":"Fernando Salinas-Quiroz, Elana R. McDermott, Ellen C. Perrin, Jocelyn Demos Utrera, Ellen E. Pinderhughes","doi":"10.1002/icd.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Historical events change the socio-cultural and political contexts that Latinx gay men live in, shaping generational differences in external support, comfort being out, experiences of stigma, and the impacts of and response to minority stress over time. The stigma Latinx gay fathers face is informed by racial and xenophobic prejudice they encounter as Latinx individuals and negative attitudes towards their parenting abilities as gay men. To better understand the lives of Latinx gay fathers, we employed a life course perspective to explore their pathways to parenthood, experiences and avoidance of stigma, helpfulness of social relationships, and their comfort being out. Eighty-six Latinx gay fathers (Mage = 46.03 years, SD = 10.50, range = 21–74) from 47 US states participated. Most identified as white, Hispanic (88.4%), while others identified as Black/African American and Hispanic (8.1%), Multiracial (2.3%), or Hispanic, non-white (1.2%). The average income level was approximately US $75,000–$80,000. Over half of participants' first and second children were genetically related to them. Participants reported low frequencies of sexuality-based stigma and even lower levels of stigma avoidance, as well as relatively high levels of comfort being publicly out and helpfulness of social relationships. Generational differences between Latinx gay fathers in the AIDS-1 (born 1950–1969) and AIDS-2 generations (born 1970–1980s) were salient, signifying the importance of historical context in understanding this population.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144929797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adapting Reading Measures From English to Meetei Mayek: An Exploratory Item Response Theory Approach 《梅耶克的英语阅读方法》：探索性项目反应理论研究

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70050

Gairan Pamei, Catherine McBride, Tomohiro Inoue

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‘It Seems Hard for Her, but She Tries to Be Strong’: Early Childhood Community Practitioners' Accounts of Foreign Mothers' Vulnerabilities in Alexandra Township, South Africa “这对她来说似乎很难，但她试图坚强”：南非亚历山德拉镇幼儿社区从业人员对外国母亲脆弱性的描述

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70047

Chloe Laumann, Josien de Klerk, Nicki Dawson

{"title":"‘It Seems Hard for Her, but She Tries to Be Strong’: Early Childhood Community Practitioners' Accounts of Foreign Mothers' Vulnerabilities in Alexandra Township, South Africa","authors":"Chloe Laumann, Josien de Klerk, Nicki Dawson","doi":"10.1002/icd.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70047","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explores challenges foreign mothers face in caring for newborns in Alexandra Township, South Africa, from the perspective of Early Childhood Community Practitioners (ECCPs). Based on 21 observational reports written by ECCPs and 3 triangulation interviews, the study explores practitioner accounts of specific vulnerabilities and their impact on the ability of foreign mothers to respond to their infants. Using a vulnerability framework, the study shows three themes related to the experiences of 21 foreign mothers aged between 23 and 38, the majority being from Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, that practitioners associated with mothers' ability to take care of their babies: experiences of structural and systemic challenges, challenges related to social and caregiving support, and resilience narratives. The interplay of different vulnerabilities shapes parenting infants at particular moments in time. The study concludes that ECCPs associate the parenting capacity of foreign mothers with the emotional toll of their experiences and the uncertainty of social support.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144897455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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