{"title":"Longitudinal Dynamics of Child Shyness, Maternal Maladaptive Parenting Practices and Anxious Behaviour in Early Childhood: A Cross-Lagged Analysis","authors":"Bowen Xiao, Youli Wang, Pin Xu, Yan Li","doi":"10.1002/icd.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Childhood shyness, a temperamental trait characterised by social wariness, has been linked to increased anxiety risk, particularly when influenced by maladaptive parenting practices, yet its bidirectional and longitudinal effects remain understudied in Chinese preschoolers. This study examined the longitudinal relationships among child shyness, maternal maladaptive parenting practices and anxious behaviour among Chinese preschoolers. Participants are 408 children's (Mage = 4.1 years, SD = 0.80; 52.1% boys) mothers, and teachers from public kindergartens in Shanghai, China, assessed across three waves (T1–T3; October 2020, June 2021, June 2022). At each wave, mothers reported child shyness and maternal maladaptive parenting, and teachers rated child anxious behaviour. The results indicated T1 shyness predicted higher T2 maladaptive parenting and greater T2 anxiety. Critically, the indirect effect from T1 shyness to T3 anxiety via T2 maladaptive parenting was significant, indicating that early shyness contributed to later anxiety through increases in maladaptive parenting. Bidirectionality also emerged: T2 anxiety predicted higher T3 shyness. These findings highlight the complex interplay of individual and environmental factors in the development of anxious behaviour and underscore the importance of addressing both child temperament and parenting practices in early interventions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563158","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}
{"title":"Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Paternal and Maternal Involvement and Social Competence Among Chinese Young Children via an Extended Cross-Lagged Panel Model","authors":"Huifang Ren, Bi Ying Hu, Lixin Ren, Yu-Ju Chou, Chien-Ju Chang","doi":"10.1002/icd.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This longitudinal study followed 1880 Chinese young children (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 2.99 years at T1, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 4.01 at T2, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 5.01 at T3; 927 girls and 953 boys). An extended cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was applied to examine reciprocal associations amongst paternal involvement, maternal involvement, and children's social competence, with social competence modelled as a latent variable at each wave. Results showed that paternal involvement, maternal involvement, and social competence remained stable over time. Earlier paternal and maternal involvement was not significantly related to later social competence. In contrast, children's social competence was positively associated with subsequent paternal and maternal involvement. Moreover, paternal and maternal involvement were negatively correlated with each other over time. These findings indicate child-driven associations between social competence and parental involvement, implying that parents should recognise this link and adjust their participation to support children's social development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569584","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}
{"title":"Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Paternal and Maternal Involvement and Social Competence Among Chinese Young Children via an Extended Cross-Lagged Panel Model","authors":"Huifang Ren, Bi Ying Hu, Lixin Ren, Yu-Ju Chou, Chien-Ju Chang","doi":"10.1002/icd.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This longitudinal study followed 1880 Chinese young children (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 2.99 years at T1, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 4.01 at T2, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 5.01 at T3; 927 girls and 953 boys). An extended cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was applied to examine reciprocal associations amongst paternal involvement, maternal involvement, and children's social competence, with social competence modelled as a latent variable at each wave. Results showed that paternal involvement, maternal involvement, and social competence remained stable over time. Earlier paternal and maternal involvement was not significantly related to later social competence. In contrast, children's social competence was positively associated with subsequent paternal and maternal involvement. Moreover, paternal and maternal involvement were negatively correlated with each other over time. These findings indicate child-driven associations between social competence and parental involvement, implying that parents should recognise this link and adjust their participation to support children's social development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569767","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}
Mesut Saçkes, Sonnur Işıtan, Sinem Güçhan Özgül, Kerem Avci, Kathy Cabe Trundle, David M. Sobel
{"title":"Relations Between the Development of False Belief and Scientific Reasoning in Turkish Preschoolers","authors":"Mesut Saçkes, Sonnur Işıtan, Sinem Güçhan Özgül, Kerem Avci, Kathy Cabe Trundle, David M. Sobel","doi":"10.1002/icd.70093","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies have shown relations between the emergence of theory of mind capacities and children's scientific reasoning in Western samples. Previous studies have also shown that Turkish preschoolers have a different trajectory for theory of mind development than their Western counterparts. This study extends these previous findings to examine relations between the emergence of false belief understanding and different facets of scientific reasoning in Turkish preschoolers (aged 3 to 5), particularly focused on the difference between understanding others' false belief and one's own representational change. Study 1 revealed a positive relation between preschoolers' capacity to infer another's false belief and their experimentation skills when unconfounded interventions were presented to them. This finding did not extend to children's ability to report their own representational change. Study 2, however, showed that this relation with false belief did not extend to a case in which children had to design their own interventions to implement the control of variables strategy. The results suggest links between children's understanding of false belief and their nascent scientific reasoning among Turkish preschoolers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374316","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}
Carly E. Gray, Pooja S. Tandon, Katherine T. Foster, Lucía Magis-Weinberg
{"title":"Greenspace and Adolescent Internalising and Externalising Problems: Limited Associations in the ABCD Cohort","authors":"Carly E. Gray, Pooja S. Tandon, Katherine T. Foster, Lucía Magis-Weinberg","doi":"10.1002/icd.70091","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The availability of neighbourhood greenspace has been associated with many positive health outcomes across the lifespan. However, evidence has been mixed during adolescence. This study examined associations between greenspace and internalising and externalising problems amongst adolescents ages 9–14 in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) cohort. We tested whether associations were present or stronger at certain ages, for certain genders, or for certain indices of greenspace using a split-half approach. Analyses in the exploratory sample (<i>N</i> = 2932) indicated few associations between greenspace and adolescent mental health. Preregistered analyses in the confirmatory sample (<i>N</i> = 3264) replicated these largely null results. However, the proportion of park land in 13-year-old girls' census tracts was associated with lower internalising problems in both samples. Our findings point to the need to more precisely consider access to and interaction with greenspace, as well as other neighbourhood factors affecting youth mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70091","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374317","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}
Emily J. Goodacre, Elian Fink, Paul Ramchandani, Jenny L. Gibson
{"title":"Communication With Friends and Non-Friend Peers: An Examination of Dyadic Connectedness Across Two Play Contexts","authors":"Emily J. Goodacre, Elian Fink, Paul Ramchandani, Jenny L. Gibson","doi":"10.1002/icd.70089","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children's peer interactions provide an important setting for their developing communication skills. The current study analyses connectedness—the topical coherence of children's conversational turns—to explore how children coordinate their interactions across two play contexts. We coded the observed connected talk of 82 same-gender dyads (<i>N</i> = 152 children, 41.4% girls, 58.6% boys, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 6.79 years, SD = 0.38) during both freeplay and goal-directed contexts through repeated measures. We then modelled the rates of connected talk in relation to dyad gender (girl, boy) and friendship status (friends, non-friend peers) with a between-subjects multi-level analysis. There was a significantly higher rate of connectedness in the goal-directed context than in freeplay (<i>β</i> = −0.04), which was qualified by a friendship status by context interaction (<i>β</i> = 0.10). Subsequent simple effects analysis showed that only non-friend dyads engaged in significantly more connected talk during the goal-directed context than in freeplay (<i>β</i> = −0.11), with equivalent connectedness across context for friend dyads (<i>β</i> = −0.02). These findings highlight the role of dyadic characteristics and contextual features for children's play and communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147374332","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}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Talking About Donor-Conception: Parents' and Children's Experiences of Origin Storytelling’","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/icd.70092","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <span>Navarro-Marshall, J.</span> <span>2025</span>. “ <span>Talking About Donor-Conception: Parents' and Children's Experiences of Origin Storytelling</span>.” <i>Infant and Child Development</i> <span>34</span>, no. <span>4</span>: e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70028.\u0000 </p><p>In the article, ‘artificial reproductive technology (ART)’ should have been ‘assisted reproductive technology (ART)’.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146215606","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}
Javier Rodrigo-Sanjoaquín, Miguel Ángel Tapia-Serrano, Alberto Aibar Solana, Léna Lhuisset, Julien E. Bois
{"title":"Correlates Between Parents' and Their Children's Compliance With the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines: A Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"Javier Rodrigo-Sanjoaquín, Miguel Ángel Tapia-Serrano, Alberto Aibar Solana, Léna Lhuisset, Julien E. Bois","doi":"10.1002/icd.70085","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Very few young people meet the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines (i.e., physical activity, recreational screen-time and sleep duration). In this regard, when it comes to compliance with the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines, very little is known about the parent–child relationship. Thus, the aim of the present study was to examine whether parents' compliance with the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines is associated with an increased likelihood of compliance with these same recommendations in their children. A total of 196 participants: specifically, 98 Spanish students (55.1% girls) aged 3 to 9 years and 98 parents were included in the present cross-sectional study. Associations between parents' and children's compliance with the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines were assessed via binary logistic regression. This cross-sectional study highlights that parents who met all three 24-Hour Movement Guidelines were more likely to have children who were also compliant than parents who met none, one or only two recommendations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153524","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}
{"title":"Is It the Content or the Gossiper's Behaviour While Evaluating Gossip for Children?","authors":"Muhammed Sukru Aydin","doi":"10.1002/icd.70086","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gossip is a crucial social cognitive skill that individuals encounter from early childhood and continues to play a significant role in daily life throughout different stages of development. While gossip is often associated with negative connotations, it is defined as the sharing of information about a third party who is not present. As a result, the valence of gossip—whether positive or negative—depends on the content being shared. Additionally, the behaviour of the person sharing the gossip can influence our judgement of the situation. In light of this, the present study explored how the content of gossip and the prosocial or antisocial behaviours of the gossiper affect the evaluations of children. The study involved 93 children, 50 of whom were girls, with ages ranging from 4 to 6 years (<i>M</i> age = 5.01 years). The participants were initially presented with vignettes using picture cards, in which the gossiper displayed either prosocial or antisocial behaviour. Following this, they were introduced to additional vignettes in which the gossiper shared information with either positive or negative content. In total, four distinct conditions were created: prosocial behaviour with negative gossip, prosocial behaviour with positive gossip, antisocial behaviour with negative gossip, and antisocial behaviour with positive gossip. The findings of the study revealed that children aged 4 to 6 tend to focus on the positive content of the gossip in their evaluations. However, when considering the behaviour of the gossiper, the prosocial or antisocial nature of the gossiper's actions had a greater influence on their judgement than the content of the gossip itself. The results are discussed in terms of how the impact of gossip content and the gossiper's behaviour varies with age.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134348","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}
{"title":"Psychometric Evaluation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Central Taiwan: Assessing Mental Health in School Children","authors":"Jing-Jung Yang, Hsi-chu Yang, Jhih-Yuan Lu, Fei-Hung Hung","doi":"10.1002/icd.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been validated across many cultural settings, yet evidence from Taiwan is scarce and derives mainly from metropolitan populations. No data are available from Changhua County, central Taiwan—an area with a strong agricultural profile and socio-demographic characteristics distinct from the more urbanised north and south. After exclusions, valid data from 1008 elementary school students (ages 7–12) were analysed. Parents and teachers completed questionnaires for all children, and students in grades 5–6 provided self-reports. Normative data and percentile-based cutoff scores were established. Reliability was generally satisfactory, though weaker for peer and conduct problem subscales, particularly in self-reports. Inter-rater correlations were modest (<i>r</i> = 0.15–0.48), with especially low agreement between teachers and other informants on emotional symptoms. Exploratory factor analysis partially supported the intended structure. These findings demonstrate that while the SDQ is a practical tool for school-based screening in Taiwan, peer and conduct domains require cautious interpretation and socio-demographic context should be considered when applying the instrument across different regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139225","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}