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Brain Morphometry of Toddlers With Language Delay: An Exploratory Study

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2558

Courtney A. Filippi, Elizabeth Smith, Elizabeth Redcay, Heather Hazlett, Lauren Thompson, Stacy S. Manwaring, Precilla D'Souza, Audrey Thurm

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Feasibility and Acceptability of the Mazi Umntanakho Digital Tool in South African Settings: A Qualitative Evaluation 南非设置Mazi Umntanakho数字工具的可行性和可接受性：定性评价

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2567

Catherine E. Draper, Caylee J. Cook, Elizabeth A. Ankrah, Jesus A. Beltran, Franceli L. Cibrian, Kimberley D. Lakes, Hanna Mofid, Lucretia Williams, Gillian R. Hayes

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Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model 定义父母回应：一个基于系统回顾的理论模型

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2565

Emily Campi, Elizabeth Nye, Grace T. Baranek

{"title":"Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model","authors":"Emily Campi, Elizabeth Nye, Grace T. Baranek","doi":"10.1002/icd.2565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2565","url":null,"abstract":"Parent responsiveness to infants' cues may support attachment, mental health, and neurodevelopment. Across studies, parent responsiveness includes various behaviours (e.g., verbal responses, sensitivity, timeliness, physical proximity). Mixed evidence regarding associations between parent responsiveness and child development may be partially attributable to variable conceptualizations of parent responsiveness. Additionally, divergent perspectives on parent responsiveness may limit cross‐disciplinary collaborations, which are important to best support families in developing responsive parenting skills. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review of articles published from 1952 to 2022 was to establish a multidimensional definition of parent responsiveness. Inclusion criteria for the 463 articles included in this review were: (a) primary focus on behavioural parent responsiveness; (b) average infant age 6–18 months; and (c) in‐depth definition of parent responsiveness. We completed a qualitative content analysis of the definitions of parent responsiveness extracted from each included article. The resulting definition contains 15 dimensions of parent responsiveness across four levels of behaviour that comprehensively describe the complexity of parent‐infant interactions. This model is foundational for future studies of parent responsiveness, its impact on child development, and factors that influence parents' ability to respond to their infants' cues.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884284","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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Strengthening Developmental Science With Psychometric Evaluations: An Examination of the Spatial Arrangement Method as a Measure of Semantic Structure in Children 通过心理测量评估加强发展科学：将空间排列法作为儿童语义结构测量方法的研究

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2560

Catarina Vales, Zach Branson, Anna V. Fisher

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A Comparison of Sleep and Settle Behaviours Across Twins and Singletons at 5 Months of Age 5个月大的双胞胎和单胎婴儿睡眠和安定行为的比较

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2564

Charlotte Viktorsson, Angelica Ronald, Terje Falck‐Ytter

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Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses 问题婴儿睡眠和哭闹/大惊小怪行为的行为干预：系统回顾和Meta分析

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2554

Karin Stanzel, Tomoko Honda, Thach Tran, Jane Fisher

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At the Interface Between Parasympathetic Activity and Self‐Regulation in Young Children: Introduction to the Special Issue 在幼儿副交感神经活动和自我调节之间的界面：特刊导论

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2559

Steven J. Holochwost, Cathi B. Propper

{"title":"At the Interface Between Parasympathetic Activity and Self‐Regulation in Young Children: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Steven J. Holochwost, Cathi B. Propper","doi":"10.1002/icd.2559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2559","url":null,"abstract":"The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is highly responsive to changes in environmental conditions and serves an essential role in mobilising the metabolic resources required for young children to regulate their thoughts, emotions and behaviours. According to polyvagal theory, the PNS evolved to play a leading role in the neurophysiological response to situations that range from modestly challenging to engaging, and many situations in which young children must exercise volitional processes of self‐regulation conform to this description. Children's phasic parasympathetic activity during measures of volitional self‐regulation is often associated with their performance on those measures or with their performance on other assessments of self‐regulation, but the nature of the associations between PNS activity and performance on measures of volitional self‐regulation is highly variable. This heterogeneity complicates the interpretation of results obtained across different studies and inhibits our ability to formulate directional hypotheses about what patterns of phasic parasympathetic activity we would expect to observe as young children exercise volitional processes of self‐regulation in different situations. This special issue presents a set of papers that addressed these challenges by administering multiple measures of volitional self‐regulation to the same sample of children or by examining how children's characteristics and experience in their developmental environments may account for observed differences in their phasic PNS activity.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789865","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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Baseline and Rest: A Need for Conceptual Clarity When Measuring Parasympathetic Reactivity and Recovery 基线和休息：测量副交感神经反应性和恢复时需要概念清晰

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2563

Jacek Kolacz

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Thinking About the Birth Father: Loss, Longing, Ambivalence, and Indifference Among Adopted Adolescents With Lesbian Mothers 对生父的思考：女同性恋母亲收养的青少年的失落、渴望、矛盾和冷漠

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2561

Abbie E. Goldberg, David M. Brodzinsky

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Mother‐Infant Covariation of Positive and Negative Emotions Across the Day 全天积极和消极情绪的母婴共变