Josivaldo de Souza-Lima, Gerson Ferrari, Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda, Frano Giakoni-Ramírez, Catalina Muñoz-Strale, Javiera Alarcon-Aguilar, Andrés Godoy-Cumillaf, Daniel Duclos-Bastias, Claudio Farias-Valenzuela, Pedro Valdivia-Moral
{"title":"The Role of Daily Physical Activities in Enhancing Subjective Well-Being Among Chilean School-Aged Children","authors":"Josivaldo de Souza-Lima, Gerson Ferrari, Rodrigo Yáñez-Sepúlveda, Frano Giakoni-Ramírez, Catalina Muñoz-Strale, Javiera Alarcon-Aguilar, Andrés Godoy-Cumillaf, Daniel Duclos-Bastias, Claudio Farias-Valenzuela, Pedro Valdivia-Moral","doi":"10.1002/icd.70066","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aimed to examine the association between children's participation in physical and sports activities and their affective subjective well-being. Data were drawn from the Second Wave of the Children's Worlds: International Survey of Children's Well-Being (ISCWeB), involving a sample of 913 Chilean children aged 10 and 12 years. Participants completed self-report measures assessing feelings of happiness, sadness, stress, energy and boredom (positive and negative affect—CW PNAS). Participation in physical activities and sports was significantly correlated with positive well-being, indicating a strong link between such involvement and perceived positive affect. Age and gender did not significantly influence these outcomes. In contrast, lower participation in physical and sports activities was significantly associated with higher negative affect, with neither age nor gender showing substantial impact on this result. This research employed structural equation modelling to develop a model measuring physical and sports activities (PSA) and subjective well-being in Chilean schoolchildren. The study confirms the model's effectiveness in explaining the relationship between children's SWB and PSA involvement. Analysis showed significant correlations between indicators and emotional well-being factors. Findings emphasise emotions like calmness, happiness and stress in understanding the affective dimensions of children's well-being related to PSA.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801079","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":"Caregivers' Perspectives on Playful Learning Approaches: Benefits, Barriers, and Engagement","authors":"Allie Tung, Mikka Hoffman, Dominic J. Gibson","doi":"10.1002/icd.70070","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Caregivers serve an important role in guiding their children's early playful learning experiences, which range widely from free play to direct instruction. How caregivers themselves approach different play types and how to best encourage playful learning among families remains an underexplored area of research. Caregivers of 2–5-year-old children (<i>n</i> = 177) completed an online survey about their perceptions and approach to different types of play across the play spectrum (i.e., free play, guided play, games, and direct instruction). Participants came from diverse backgrounds in terms of race, income, education level, and gender identity. Caregivers saw a number of benefits to each caregiver/child play type, and likewise reported barriers that limited their ability to participate. Several caregiver perception variables were associated with the frequency of engaging in each play type. These findings provide insight into the motivating factors and limitations in caregiver/child play, offering implications for future research on caregiver play beliefs as well as possible areas for intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145808082","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}
Gintautas Silinskas, Taeko Bourque, María Inés Susperreguy, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Saulė Raižienė
{"title":"The Development of Mathematical Performance From Kindergarten to Grade 1: The Role of Children's Mathematical Liking and Parents' Beliefs and Activities","authors":"Gintautas Silinskas, Taeko Bourque, María Inés Susperreguy, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Saulė Raižienė","doi":"10.1002/icd.70071","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The transition from kindergarten to formal schooling is an important period for examining children's developing mathematical performance. We studied reciprocal associations among children's mathematical performance, parent factors (i.e., numeracy activities, beliefs about children's mathematical skills), and child factors (i.e., mathematics liking). Lithuanian children (<i>N</i> = 341; 180 girls) and their parents participated at three time points: end of kindergarten (T1; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 6.87 years), beginning of Grade 1 (T2), and end of Grade 1 (T3). Reciprocal cross-lagged associations between parent- and child-related factors showed that children's mathematical performance positively predicted parental beliefs [<i>β</i><sub>T1–T2</sub> = 0.247, <i>β</i><sub>T2–T3</sub> = 0.280] and negatively predicted numeracy activities [<i>β</i><sub>T1–T2</sub> = −0.227, <i>β</i><sub>T2–T3</sub> = −0.110] during the transition from kindergarten to Grade 1, and during Grade 1. Children's mathematical performance positively predicted their mathematics liking at the end of Grade 1 (<i>β</i><sub>T2–T3</sub> = 0.138). The results emphasise the role of children's mathematical performance in shaping parents' involvement and beliefs about children's mathematical learning and their children's mathematics liking.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730996","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":"Neonatal Surgency Moderates the Association Between the Home Environment and Executive Functions in Children With a Family History of ADHD","authors":"Tzlil Einziger, Judith G. Auerbach, Andrea Berger","doi":"10.1002/icd.70072","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary perspectives suggest that some children are more sensitive to their caregiving environment than others. This prospective longitudinal study examined the role of environmental sensitivity in the developmental pathways of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), focusing on its early identification during the neonatal period. Ninety-five Israeli boys, varying in their likelihood of developing ADHD, based on parental ADHD symptoms, were followed from birth to age 7 years. Both neonatal temperamental surgency and parental ADHD symptoms moderated the correlation between the early home environment (measured at 54 months) and child executive functions (EF; measured at 7 years), with medium effect sizes (double moderation; Δ<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.12, <i>β</i> = 0.32 and 0.28, respectively). Among children with elevated levels of both parental ADHD symptoms and neonatal surgency, a more enriched home environment predicted higher EF. Very early and accurate detection of sensitivity to the environment can facilitate early preventive interventions to moderate the development of ADHD symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145704599","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}
Osnat Atun-Einy, Maram Ibrahem, Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz, Saskia D. M. van Schaik, Alexandra Danial-Saad, Eynat Gal
{"title":"Cultural Construction of Infant Motor Development in a Minority Group: The Case of First Time Druze Mothers in Israel","authors":"Osnat Atun-Einy, Maram Ibrahem, Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz, Saskia D. M. van Schaik, Alexandra Danial-Saad, Eynat Gal","doi":"10.1002/icd.70065","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parental beliefs and practices regarding motor development vary across cultures. However, there is a gap in cross-cultural studies focusing on minority groups. This mixed-methods study explores the cultural construction of infant motor development within the Druze-Israeli (Druze-IL) minority group. Using questionnaires, we measured beliefs, practices, physical settings, and infant motor skills among 83 Druze-IL mothers comparing them with a matched group of 83 Jewish-IL mothers, representing Israel's majority group. Moreover, qualitative insights were gleaned from semi-structured interviews with eight Druze-IL mothers. Results indicated that Druze-IL mothers prioritised stimulating motor development and valued expert guidance, while also perceiving it as a natural process. For example, they were less supportive of the prone position and preferred the upright position compared to Jewish-IL mothers. This preference was congruent with Druze infants' superior skills in upright postures compared to Jewish-IL infants. Interviews highlighted that Druze mothers balance traditional customs with expert advice, stressing the importance of attuning to their infants' needs to determine the suitability of various practices. The findings enrich our understanding of the socio-cultural construction of motor development and illustrate how Druze mothers negotiate influences from both minority and majority cultures in shaping their beliefs, practices, and ultimately, their infants' motor skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145608837","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}
Diana Almeida, Margarida A. Santos, Carla S. Cardoso, Gilda Santos
{"title":"Do Parents and Children See Eye to Eye When It Comes to Parenting Styles? Results From a Cross-Informant Agreement Study With Portuguese Middle-School Children","authors":"Diana Almeida, Margarida A. Santos, Carla S. Cardoso, Gilda Santos","doi":"10.1002/icd.70067","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The importance of collecting data from multiple sources, particularly in studying family dynamics, is widely accepted. Thus, this study seeks to assess the agreement between parents and children on permissive, authoritative and authoritarian parenting styles while exploring the influence of the informant's sex on the agreement. A sample of 472 children and 424 parents was assessed using the Parental Authority Questionnaire and the Parenting Styles Questionnaire for Parents. Results revealed low to moderate agreement between informants for the total sample or controlling for the informant's sex. This study contributes to expanding empirical evidence and knowledge in this field, shedding light on the role of parent and child sex in reporting different parenting styles and highlighting the importance of using multiple informants to study family dynamics and processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575724","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}
Tan Jo-Pei, Gan Su-Wan, Charissa S. L. Cheah, Tan Soon-Aun
{"title":"‘I Feel Happy When I See Her… She Needs Me’: A Qualitative Study on Grandparenting and Children's Social–Emotional Development in Rural Malaysia","authors":"Tan Jo-Pei, Gan Su-Wan, Charissa S. L. Cheah, Tan Soon-Aun","doi":"10.1002/icd.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study explored rural co-residential Malaysian grandparents' conceptualisation of their practices and contributions to their preadolescent grandchildren's social–emotional development. Using a qualitative research design, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 non-custodial co-residential grandparents of preadolescents (Mage = 64.8 years; SD = 8.23) from three ethnic groups in rural Peninsular Malaysia. Framework analysis revealed three themes: (1) Defining the journey of grandparenting and grandparenthood; (2) Coaching grandchildren's social skills and expression of autonomy support, and (3) Supporting grandchildren's emotional regulation and sharing with grandchildren. Our results revealed shared and unique ways grandparents perceived their role in facilitating autonomy, promoting cohesive intergenerational relationships, and supporting their grandchildren's social and emotional regulation skills development through supportive and responsive daily caregiving interactions. The findings reflect Malaysian families' evolving yet culturally rooted dynamics, where autonomy and relatedness are not mutually exclusive but co-exist within supportive intergenerational relationships. This research challenges oversimplified characterisations of Asian grandparenting by revealing the emotionally responsive and socially instructive roles that grandparents play in fostering their grandchildren's social–emotional development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145530139","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":"‘It's Mine!’ Infants' Ownership Understanding and Choice Prediction: Exploring the Role of Experiential Factors","authors":"Rylie Putrich, Julie Youngers, Yuyan Luo","doi":"10.1002/icd.70064","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Developmental research on ownership understanding has focused on preschool years, with only a limited number of studies with infants. The present study with 19-month-old infants showed that after given information about an agent's ownership of a toy (she claimed ‘It's mine!’ before grasping the toy), infants, as a group (<i>N</i> = 66, 54.5% female, 77.3% White), accepted that when a new toy was added, the agent could choose either her own toy or the new one. Within the group, however, infants with no siblings (<i>d</i> = 0.494) and those with attachment objects (to a lesser degree; <i>d</i> = 0.525) expected the agent to choose her own toy over the new one. These results highlight the role of these two experiential factors in how infants use ownership information to make predictions about others' choices and thus contribute to the theoretical accounts on the early development of ownership understandings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145492083","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":"The Interplay Between Parenting Behaviors and Executive Functions for Children's Math Outcomes","authors":"Kimia Akhavein, Molly K. Griffin, Jenna E. Finch","doi":"10.1002/icd.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined whether elementary children's executive functions (EFs) moderated associations between observed autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting during math homework help and children's math achievement and anxiety 1 year later. In total, 170 parent–child dyads completed a second-grade assessment (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 8.02), and 111 returned in third grade (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 9.18). Half of the children were girls (48%) and the sample was predominantly white (78%). Results indicated that autonomy-supportive parenting was associated with higher math achievement for all children (<i>β</i> = 0.264). Significant interactions emerged between controlling parenting and children's EFs for their math achievement (<i>β</i> = 0.165) and math anxiety (<i>β</i> = 0.190). Children with high EFs were protected against the negative effects of controlling parenting for children's math achievement. In contrast, children with low EFs demonstrated moderate math anxiety regardless of controlling parenting, whereas children with high EFs demonstrated a positive association between controlling parenting and increased math anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/icd.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145447287","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":"Relationship Between Colours and Emotions as Reflected in Children's Drawings","authors":"Emine Hande Aydos, Bahar Özet","doi":"10.1002/icd.70053","DOIUrl":"10.1002/icd.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Children articulate their emotions and experiences through drawings and the colours they incorporate into them. This study investigated the relationship between preschool children's colour preferences, the emotions those colours elicit, and how they convey their emotions and thoughts through drawings. The participants, comprising 30 children (19 girls and 11 boys) in Istanbul, were prompted to select a colour card that best represented their feelings and draw a visual representation of their current emotions. Most children linked a single emotion to a specific colour, whereas others demonstrated more intricate emotional representations by associating multiple emotions with one colour. Colour–emotion associations were highly individualised, although some general patterns were observed, and this showcased individual variability shaped by experiences, interactions, and environmental influences. Their drawings predominantly portrayed positive emotions related to family interactions, friendships, and pleasurable activities. Negative emotions were associated with loss, separation, or challenges. These results emphasise the importance of integrating art-based activities into early childhood education to support emotional literacy and communication.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47820,"journal":{"name":"Infant and Child Development","volume":"34 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145441160","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}