Marissa F. Mulvey, Janette E. Herbers, Kristin J. Jennings, Rahma Goran, Abigail C. Knight
{"title":"Infant fearful distress, parent intrusiveness, and adversity in families experiencing homelessness","authors":"Marissa F. Mulvey, Janette E. Herbers, Kristin J. Jennings, Rahma Goran, Abigail C. Knight","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infants experiencing homelessness face risk for developing mental health<span> problems in the future. Parents residing in shelters experience adverse events at elevated rates compared to non-homeless individuals, which can impact their infants during a time of rapid development depending on how the parent copes. For some, trauma linked to these events may manifest in an intrusive parenting style that interferes with the child’s developing capacity for self-regulation. We utilized a sample of 60 parent-infant dyads recruited while residing in emergency homeless shelters to evaluate associations among parents’ history of adversity, intrusive parenting behaviors, and infants’ fearful distress. Observed parent intrusiveness during a free play interaction was significantly associated with infant fearfulness observed in a separate behavioral task during which infants viewed a series of masks. Furthermore, there was a moderating effect for parent history of adversity such that the association between parent intrusiveness and infant fearful distress was stronger among parents with more past experiences of adversity.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41224013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity","authors":"Jason M. Gibbs , Nicki L. Aubuchon-Endsley","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101889","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101889","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Perinatal maternal depression, anxiety, and stress are associated with poor infant outcomes. However, no known study has investigated the effects of perinatal maternal obsessive-compulsive symptomatology on infant outcomes while considering important situational factors such as socioeconomic resources. Therefore, we investigated the effects of prenatal and postnatal obsessive-compulsive symptomatology on infant behavioral reactivity, beyond the effects of postnatal depressive symptomatology, at 6 months of age. It was expected that socioeconomic resources would moderate this relationship. We recruited 125 pregnant women from a Health Professional Shortage Area for </span>mental health and primary care in the Midwest United States and interviewed them at approximately 34 weeks gestation and again at 6 months postnatally. They were administered questionnaires at both time points measuring obsessive-compulsive and depressive symptoms. Infant behavioral reactivity was gathered during 6-month follow-up through behavioral observation coding and maternal-report modalities. Maternal-reported infant negative affectivity at 6 months was related to greater severity of maternal postnatal depressive symptomatology, and socioeconomic resources moderated the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and maternal-reported infant negative affectivity. However, neither of these relations was statistically significant when infant reactivity was quantified using behavioral observations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101889"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41224014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study","authors":"Nadine Doennecke , Janin Brandenburg , Claudia Maehler","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101888","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101888","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Development tests are widely used in the scope of cross-cultural and comparative research to support intervention studies and health care projects concerning </span>early childhood development<span>. Therefore, it is crucial to use culturally sensitive assessment tools. A culturally adapted version of the German development test FREDI 0–3 (Maehler, Cartschau, & Rohleder, 2016) was used to assess a German (</span></span><em>n</em> = 405) and an Indian (<em>n</em><span><span> = 2075) sample of children between ten and thirty-two months. Measurement invariance indicates </span>psychometric equivalence of a construct across groups and is a prerequisite for test applications in a cross-cultural setting. Confirmatory factor analyses for single cohorts per age group and multi-group measurement invariance analyses were used to examine the data equivalence of the test across groups. Weak measurement invariance could be established across both groups in all four age groups (10–14; 15–21; 22–26; 27–32 months) suggesting that the development factor was measured in the same way in both groups and accounted similarly for performance differences in the developmental subdomains for the German and the Indian sample. However, scalar and strict measurement invariance were violated in almost all group comparisons suggesting differences in scale difficulty and reliability across the German and the Indian sample. This suggests that a culture-sensitive adaptation process like it was carried out within this project is necessary but not sufficient in order to create a culturally comparable development test. It is essential to always carry out measurement invariance testing to determine the psychometric equivalence of the test and additionally reduce linguistic and cultural bias through an adaption process based on empirical proven methodological principles.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101888"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41172178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group well child care and risk for developmental delay: Preliminary findings among Asian immigrants","authors":"Joan Jeung","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Group well-child care (GWCC) may promote interactive caregiving and prevent developmental delay. <em>Method:</em> This cross-sectional study explored the association between GWCC attendance and odds for suspected developmental delay among low-income Asian immigrants as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)-III at age 18 months. <em>Results:</em> Odds for suspected developmental delay (OR=0.81, 95 % CI 0.40–1.62) were not significantly lower for GWCC infants. However, odds for developmental risk were significantly lower for GWCC infants in the ASQ’s problem-solving domain (OR= 0.40, 95 % CI 0.17–0.92). <em>Conclusion:</em> Among low-income Asian immigrants, GWCC participation may be associated with lower odds for cognitive developmental delay.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101887"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41165981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age","authors":"Yuran Lee , Seunghee Ha","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Parental communication styles and language usage may undergo changes during the course of child development, exhibiting variations across language backgrounds and cultures. This study aimed to explore how infant-parent interactions within Korean-speaking environments evolve over time through meticulous coding of day-long home audio recordings. The study examined whether the ratio and types of parental verbal responses vary based on infants’ age and vocalization types. A total of 16 infants and their parents participated in all-day home recordings using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system. The recordings were conducted in two rounds per family when the infants were aged 9–11 months and 12–14 months, with a three-month gap between each round. The frequency and types of infant vocalizations were analyzed and the contingency and types of parental verbal responsiveness were determined based on semantic and phonetic connection, as well as temporal appropriateness. The results showed that parents did not verbally respond to approximately 50 % of the infant vocalizations in the natural home environment. However, parents’ lack of verbal responses decreased significantly, and their contingent responses increased significantly with infant age. Parents were also not selectively responsive to infants’ canonical vocalizations over non-canonical vocalizations. Nevertheless, parents demonstrated a higher frequency of responses that were not only linguistically meaningful but also socially appropriate and contextually relevant to infants’ vocalizations as infants developed, which may play a significant role in scaffolding speech and language development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101886"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10285912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Livia Branco Campos , Marina Kcrmar , Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório
{"title":"Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Livia Branco Campos , Marina Kcrmar , Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contradicting pediatric societies’ recommendations, studies show that screen exposure begins at the first year of life for many children worldwide, with parental needs, educational purposes, and parental stress emerging as associated factors. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has likely worsened this scenario. This study aims to: 1) estimate the average daily screen exposure time for Brazilian infants aged 0–23 months during the COVID-19 pandemic based on caregiver report; 2) analyze the correlation between average exposure time, parental motivations for exposure, parental burnout levels and infant age; and 3) test the predictive role of parental motivations, burnout, and infant age on infant screen exposure. For this purpose, 139 parents (living in Brazil) answered online to questionnaires on infant screen exposure, parental motivations for exposure (four subscales: <em>Parental Needs</em>; <em>Educational</em>; <em>Child’s Desires/Family Routine</em>; <em>Behavioral Control</em>), and parental burnout (Total score; four subscales: <em>Emotional Exhaustion</em>; <em>Contrast</em>; <em>Feelings of Being Fed Up</em>; <em>Emotional Distancing</em>). On average, infants were exposed to screens for 131 min/day. Higher scores on the four parental motivation subscales and higher parental burnout (specifically the <em>Contrast</em> subscale) correlated with longer exposure times. Furthermore, the motivation subscales <em>Parental Needs</em> and <em>Child's Desires/family routine,</em> the burnout subscale <em>Contrast</em> and infant age predicted greater screen exposure, while the burnout scale <em>Feelings of Being Fed Up</em> predicted less exposure. Our results suggest that infants in Brazil were exposed to substantial amounts of screen time during the pandemic. Interventions aiming to reduce screen time must consider parental motivations and parental burnout/mental health along with infant age.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101885"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10476392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy","authors":"Iryna Babik , Andrea B. Cunha , Sudha Srinivasan","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Disruptive biological and environmental factors may undermine the development of children’s motor and sensorimotor skills. Since the development of cognitive skills, including executive function, is grounded in early motor and sensorimotor experiences, early delays or impairments in motor and sensorimotor processing often trigger dynamic developmental cascades that lead to suboptimal executive function outcomes. The purpose of this perspective paper is to link early differences in motor/sensorimotor processing to the development of executive function in children born preterm or with </span>cerebral palsy. Uncovering such links in clinical populations would improve our understanding of developmental pathways and key motor and sensorimotor skills that are antecedent and foundational for the development of executive function. This knowledge will allow the refinement of early interventions targeting motor and sensorimotor skills with the goal of proactively improving executive function outcomes in at-risk populations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101881"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10112005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie Bischoff , Silke Schmidt , Holger Muehlan , Sabina Ulbricht , Matthias Heckmann , Neeltje van den Berg , Hans J. Grabe , Samuel Tomczyk
{"title":"Ecological momentary assessment of parent-child attachment via technological devices: A systematic methodological review","authors":"Marie Bischoff , Silke Schmidt , Holger Muehlan , Sabina Ulbricht , Matthias Heckmann , Neeltje van den Berg , Hans J. Grabe , Samuel Tomczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span><span>Despite extensive research about parent-child attachment using observational and self-report studies, complementary measures are needed to assess this construct objectively with ecological validity, as well as less obtrusiveness and reactivity than traditional measures. This systematic review describes existing technology-based ecologically momentary assessment (EMA) tools examining attachment-related emotions, cognition, and </span>behaviors between the child and its parents. From the study’s inception until March 2021, four databases were searched resulting in 11,910 screened citations. Finally, 18 records were included, characterized by a broad variety of assessment tools, sample characteristics, study designs, and attachment outcomes. Technology-based EMA methods comprised audio, video, diary, and sensory assessment modalities, each occuying its methodological niche. When reported, the </span>psychometric properties of the EMA methods were evaluated as very good; however, the included studies’ </span>psychometric data was not completely examined. The main attachment outcomes assessed by EMA were emotional and cognitive reactions and actions of the children, the parents, and the dyad. Cognition was rarely assessed using EMA methods. Future research should focus on the complexity of attachment considering different ethnic backgrounds, multiple caregivers' viewpoints, gender aspects, as well as cognitive and dyadic contents in the naturalistic environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101882"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10451411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19","authors":"Marina Kammermeier, Markus Paulus","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks became an effective hygienic measure to reduce infection rates. Given the relevance of facial expressions for social interactions, the question arises how face masks affect early social interactions. The current longitudinal study investigated how covering parts of the face might impact infants’ responses to others’ emotional expressions. Infants who were born during the pandemic were examined at three measurement points at the age of 6, 10 and 14 months. After displaying a neutral facial expression an experimenter smiled at infants while either wearing a mask (mask condition) or not wearing a mask (no mask condition). Infants’ change in affect (i.e., negative, neutral, positive) from the neutral to the test phase (i.e., smiling experimenter) was evaluated. Results showed that at 6 and </span>at 10<span> months infants’ behavior did not differ between conditions, whereas at 14 months infants were more likely to show a change from neutral/negative affect to positive affect in the no mask condition than in the mask condition. Moreover, at 14 months infants were less likely to respond positively to the experimenter’s smile (across conditions) than at 6 and at 10 months. These findings broaden our understanding of potential effects of mask wearing on the development of face processing and affective communication. Overall, they indicate a developmental trend according to which infants’ processing and response to others’ positive emotions becomes more selective and differentiated with increasing age.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101873"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10332248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review","authors":"Denisa Manková , Soňa Švancarová, Eliška Štenclová","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Breastfeeding brings many benefits to both mother and infant. Although, many women stop breastfeeding their infants too soon. The perceived association between breastfeeding and sleep may influence their decision to terminate breastfeeding. In our systematic review, we focused on mapping the relationship between infant feeding method and total sleep time (TST), number of nocturnal awakenings, awakenings after sleep onset (WASO) of mothers and infants and sleep quality of mothers. We searched four databases according to selected keywords and inclusion criteria - articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2012 and 2022; English language; a sample consisting of mothers, infants, or both (without psychiatric and health problems); a comparison of the sleep quality of breastfed and formula-fed children or breastfeeding and formula-fed mothers. We read 260 full texts of selected articles. A total of 35 articles were included in this review. Due to significant heterogeneity, meta-analysis was not possible to accomplish. The results are processed according to narrative synthesis. Most studies agree that breastfed infants wake up more often at night. Total sleep time and time spent awake during the night (WASO) did not differ between breastfed and non-breastfed infants. We observed identical results in sleep variables among mothers. Additionally, there was no difference in maternal sleep quality. The synthesis revealed that the results may have differed due to using subjective, objective methods or the infant's age. It is important to remember that night waking is a more complex concept. Infants wake for many reasons, not just due to breastfeeding. The narrative synthesis indicated that the chosen study design, measurement method, the variables, and the infant's age could influence outcomes. In addition, other variables appeared that may affect the entire process. Therefore, we recommend that attention be paid to this in future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101868"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9984921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}