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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

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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

{"title":"A Comparison of Sleep and Settle Behaviours Across Twins and Singletons at 5 Months of Age","authors":"Charlotte Viktorsson, Angelica Ronald, Terje Falck‐Ytter","doi":"10.1002/icd.2564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2564","url":null,"abstract":"Twin studies are important for research on genetic and environmental influences on child development, but it is imperative to test whether findings can be generalised from twins to singletons. Since the first months of life are defined by the emergence of important sleep behaviours, we compared 451 (54.8% females) twins and 77 singletons (48.1% females) on a range of sleep, settle and crying behaviours at 5 months of age. No significant differences were found regarding duration of crying or time until settled. However, singletons were reported to wake up more frequently during nighttime than twins (F(1, 509) = 35.10, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.065), suggesting that, when reported in twin studies, this measure might be slightly underestimated at a mean level in relation to singletons. In conclusion, despite the unique challenges and additional caregiver load of infant twins, there seem to be few differences between twins and singletons regarding parent‐reported settle and crying behaviours in early infancy.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142820662","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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Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2562

Leah C. Hibel, Siwei Liu, Chase Boyer

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Who Am I? A Longitudinal Investigation of the Multidimensional Self 我是谁？多维自我的纵向研究

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2556

Yaroslava Goncharova, Josephine Ross

{"title":"Who Am I? A Longitudinal Investigation of the Multidimensional Self","authors":"Yaroslava Goncharova, Josephine Ross","doi":"10.1002/icd.2556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2556","url":null,"abstract":"Cross‐sectional research employing the mirror mark test of self‐recognition has dominated research focused on the development of self‐reflection in children. However, the mirror mark test may fail to capture the complexity of self as a social object, and the developmental antecedents and consequences of self‐reflection remain largely uncharted. Here, we provide an overview of the extant longitudinal data on mirror self‐recognition and present our own longitudinal findings based on a multidimensional parent‐report measure of children's self‐development. Offering a snapshot of development over 3 months for 74 children aged between 14 and 36 months, and mirroring extant longitudinal data for mirror self‐recognition, our results suggest that increases in self‐reflection are longitudinally related to developments in pretend play, prosocial behaviour, imitation and declarative pointing. However, although baseline self‐reflection was statistically predictive of children's prosocial behaviour at follow‐up, no strong developmental predictor of self‐reflection emerged. We conclude that more longitudinal research, moving beyond or supplementing mirror self‐recognition, is needed to identify the cognitive and social precursors of self‐reflection. Nevertheless, growth in ‘moral’ behaviour emerges as a significant developmental consequence of this capacity in a western sample. Further research is needed to explore cultural variability in developmental pathways to and from self‐reflection.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142684273","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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Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise) 儿童假定自信的告密者是准确的（除非另有证明）

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2551

Sophie Fobert, Rose Varin, Isabelle Cossette, Kaitline R. C. Fournier, Patricia E. Brosseau‐Liard

{"title":"Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)","authors":"Sophie Fobert, Rose Varin, Isabelle Cossette, Kaitline R. C. Fournier, Patricia E. Brosseau‐Liard","doi":"10.1002/icd.2551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2551","url":null,"abstract":"Past research has demonstrated that children prefer to learn from confident rather than hesitant informants. It is frequently assumed that they do so because they believe confidence to predict a person's knowledge and future accuracy; however, this assumption has not previously been tested. The present investigation therefore explored how 3‐ to 8‐year‐old children interpret informant confidence. Study 1 (N = 84) aimed to address whether informant confidence is interpreted as an indicator of knowledge. Study 2 (N = 87) explored how children's interpretation changes with conflicting informant credibility cues. Findings demonstrate that school‐aged children, but not preschoolers, expect correct statements from confident individuals and incorrect statements from hesitant informants. Additionally, school‐age children attribute word knowledge to a previously confident informant. When accuracy conflicts with confidence, accuracy drives 3‐ to 8‐year‐old children's knowledge attributions. This investigation builds on previous research and suggests that, by age 5 or 6, children do make individual epistemic inferences based on informant confidence.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142690780","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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Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development for Turkish Children: Cultural Adaptation, Validity and Reliability Analysis 家庭环境对土耳其儿童运动发展的影响：文化适应性、有效性和可靠性分析

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Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1002/icd.2555

Başak Ergün, Gözde Önal, Gülşah Zengin Yazıcı, Gökçen Akyürek

{"title":"Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development for Turkish Children: Cultural Adaptation, Validity and Reliability Analysis","authors":"Başak Ergün, Gözde Önal, Gülşah Zengin Yazıcı, Gökçen Akyürek","doi":"10.1002/icd.2555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2555","url":null,"abstract":"The home environment is a significant factor that greatly influences the motor development of children. This study aims to examine the cultural adaptation validity and reliability of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development (AHEMD‐SR) for Turkish children aged 18–42 months. The study included 103 Turkish children (mean age = 29.3 ± 7.4 months; 57.3% female, 42.6% male). The majority of participants were from middle‐income families. The AHEMD‐SR was administered to parents, and test–retest reliability was evaluated with a subsample of 30 families. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) were calculated to assess reliability, while correlations with the Denver Developmental Screening Tool 2 (DDST‐2) were examined for convergent validity. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the AHEMD‐SR was 0.815, and the ICC for test–retest reliability was 0.889. The AHEMD‐SR total score correlated with DDST‐2's social development (r = 0.32), fine motor development (r = 0.33) and gross motor development (r = 0.33) domains (all p < 0.05). The Turkish version of the AHEMD‐SR was found to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing the home environment's impact on motor development in children aged 18–42 months. This questionnaire can provide valuable insights into how to enhance home environments to better support children's motor development in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142678233","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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