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Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70010

Tom Palmer, Gerard Abou Jaoude, Rolando Leiva Granados, Neha Batura, Frederik Booysen, Liesel Ebersöhn, Lu Gram, Audrey Prost, Francesco Salustri, Jolene Skordis

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Utilising Non-Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70006

Guro S. Sjuls

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Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioural Problems Among US Children and Adolescents, 2016–2022

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70008

Myriam Casseus, Nancy E. Reichman

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Parental Math Beliefs and Home Math Experiences of Preschoolers in Chile: A Qualitative Study

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70009

María Inés Susperreguy, Valentina Aguilera Roco, Carolina Jiménez Lira, Elia Verónica Benavides Pando

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A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI's Automatic Speech Transcription

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70007

Margaret Broeren, Yuzhe Gu, Mark Pitt, Virginia Tompkins

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Five-Year-Old Children Identify Emotions in Music Along Valence and Intensity Dimensions 五岁儿童根据情绪和强度维度识别音乐中的情绪

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70004

Haley E. Kragness, Arooba Mansoor, Areeba Qureshi, Rachel Peiris, Laura K. Cirelli

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Prospective, Directional Associations Between Social Media Intensity and Loneliness in Adolescence

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70000

Elizabeth B. Sherwin, Marjolein E. A. Barendse, Ronald E. Dahl, Lucía Magis-Weinberg

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The First Year: Profiling the Home Environment of Infants From Low-Income Homes 第一年：低收入家庭婴儿的家庭环境剖析

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70005

Jaclyn M. Dynia, Sherine R. Tambyraja, Anna Rhoad-Drogalis, Abel J. Koury, Randi A. Bates, Rebecca A. Dore, Laura M. Justice

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Exploring Inter-Brain Coherence Between Fathers and Infants During Maternal Storytelling: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70002

Xin Zhou, Xuancu Hong, Patrick C. M. Wong

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The Children's Worlds Psychological Well-Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 From 30 Countries: Analysis From Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1002/icd.70003

Rodrigo Moreta-Herrera, Xavier Oriol-Granado, Mònica González, Jose A. Rodas

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