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Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70008

Ashley S. Boyne, Camila Alviar, Miriam Lense

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Revisiting the Object-Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70007

Christine Michel, Maleen Thiele

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Developmental Plasticity in Early Human Development

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70006

Meghan H. Puglia, David S. Moore, Robert Lickliter

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Developmental Relationships Between Early Vocabulary Acquisition, Joint Attention and Parental Supportive Behaviors

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70004

Johan Wengman, Linda Forssman

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Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Wellbeing, Infant Development, Smartphone Use, and Mother-Infant Responsiveness

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70005

Lisa Golds, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Angus MacBeth

{"title":"Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Wellbeing, Infant Development, Smartphone Use, and Mother-Infant Responsiveness","authors":"Lisa Golds, Karri Gillespie-Smith, Angus MacBeth","doi":"10.1111/infa.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70005","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging evidence suggests smartphone use has adverse effects on mother-infant relationships. However, while research suggests that maternal responsiveness is reduced when using a smartphone, little research has been undertaken with infants. This study used cross-sectional data to explore associations between infant social-emotional development, maternal mental health outcomes, smartphone use, and mother-infant responsiveness. We recruited 450 mothers with infants aged 3–9 months, in the UK. Data were collected between October 2021 and April 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Validated self-report scales measured predictor variables and an outcome variable of mother-infant responsiveness. Hierarchical linear multiple regression identified a final model (R2 = 0.385, F (3,432) = 17.33, p < 0.001), with four significant predictors for mother-infant responsiveness: infant social-emotional development, birth parity, perceived social support in the form of appraisal, and likelihood of maternal smartphone use when the infant may be perceived as passive. These results suggest that within this sample, suboptimal infant social-emotional development, additional children in the family, lack of appraisal support for mothers, as well as maternal smartphone use during critical periods of parenting all demonstrate a negative association with mother-infant responsiveness. The results have implications for planning early support for mothers in the first months of their infant's life.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143362508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Editorial: Reporting Participant Characteristics

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70003

Lisa M. Oakes

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15-Month-Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70002

Shannon Yasuda, Wenjie Li, Deisy Martinez, Brenden M. Lake, Moira R. Dillon

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Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self-Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12650

Margherita Belia, Marilyn Vihman, Tamar Keren-Portnoy

{"title":"Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self-Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood","authors":"Margherita Belia, Marilyn Vihman, Tamar Keren-Portnoy","doi":"10.1111/infa.12650","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12650","url":null,"abstract":"Current research indicates likely developmental connections between the evolution of sleep patterns, motor skills progression, and the expansion of vocabulary. These connections are grounded in the well-established role of sleep in memory and learning, as well as in the cascading effects on language development of the acquisition of new motor skills. However, no study has so far undertaken a comprehensive and systematic examination of these connections or explored their developmental trajectory over time. Yet understanding vocabulary development depends on considering development in the sleep regulation and motor domains, to provide a biologically grounded explanation of how early lexicons are built and strengthened. This study investigates the links between vocabulary growth and two significant changes occurring over the first 2 years of life: self-initiated locomotion and the consolidation of overnight sleep. Our results reveal mutual associations between these domains, which tend to emerge during periods of marked developmental change in language, motor skills, and sleep patterns regulation. Moreover, these associations were observed to change over time, suggesting dynamic interconnections between these developmental domains. Our findings point toward the importance of investigating vocabulary development from a dynamic systems perspective, as the product of continuous interactions between cognition, the body and the environment.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11760629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Maternal Emotional Availability Supports Child Communicative Development Regardless of Child Temperament—Findings From the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12649

Denise Ollas-Skogster, Riikka Korja, Akie Yada, Elina Mainela-Arnold, Hasse Karlsson, David J. Bridgett, Pirkko Rautakoski, Linnea Karlsson, Saara Nolvi

{"title":"Maternal Emotional Availability Supports Child Communicative Development Regardless of Child Temperament—Findings From the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study","authors":"Denise Ollas-Skogster, Riikka Korja, Akie Yada, Elina Mainela-Arnold, Hasse Karlsson, David J. Bridgett, Pirkko Rautakoski, Linnea Karlsson, Saara Nolvi","doi":"10.1111/infa.12649","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.12649","url":null,"abstract":"The interplay of emotional availability (EA) and child temperament in association with early language development is understudied. We explored associations between maternal EA and infant communicative development and possible moderations by child temperament. Participants were 151 mother-child dyads from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Path models of associations between 8-month maternal EA and 14-month communicative development and moderation by infant temperament traits were created using SEM. Results show that EA positively predicted a latent variable of communicative development at 14 months. No direct longitudinal effect of EA on 30-month vocabulary was found. Child surgency/extraversion at 6 and 12 months significantly predicted 14-month communicative skills. Temperament did not moderate the association between EA and communicative development. Findings underscore the additive role of maternal caregiving and early surgency/extraversion in predicting early communicative development. The emotional aspects of parenting should be acknowledged as contributors to early communicative development in future studies.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758768/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A Validated Caregiver-Report Measure of Curiosity in Children From 5 to 24 Months

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Infancy Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/infa.70001

Elena C. Altmann, Marina Bazhydai, Didar Karadağ, Gert Westermann

{"title":"The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A Validated Caregiver-Report Measure of Curiosity in Children From 5 to 24 Months","authors":"Elena C. Altmann, Marina Bazhydai, Didar Karadağ, Gert Westermann","doi":"10.1111/infa.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/infa.70001","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are curious. Especially children are known for their drive to explore and learn, which is crucial for developing in and navigating through our complex world. Naturally, some children may be more curious than others, leading to differences in how they structure their own learning experiences, subsequently impacting their developmental trajectories. However, there is a gap in the research field for a reliable measure of such differences early in development. Across three studies, we present the development and assessment of the Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire (ITCQ), the first caregiver report measure to fill this gap. Items cover observable exploration behaviors in 5- to 24-month-olds to capture general tendencies of their desire to actively explore their immediate surroundings and are evaluated on a 7-point Likert-scale. Exploratory factor analyses and structural equation modeling on a sample of N = 370 UK caregivers led to the final selection of 23 items and provided evidence that the scale allows the reliable computation of an overall curiosity score, with three emergent subscales (Sensory, Investigative, and Interactive) explaining additional variance in the data. Furthermore, the scale had good test-retest reliability after 7–14 days (N = 67) and related to the child's temperament (N = 75; positively with surgency and effortful control, negatively with negative affect) offering evidence of its validity as a trait measure. Together, these results support the scale's reliability and validity, showcasing the ITCQ as a powerful tool for developmental research.","PeriodicalId":47895,"journal":{"name":"Infancy","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758190/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143034354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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