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{"title":"Assessing anxiety problems in a community sample during toddlerhood: The impact of child temperament and maternal intrusiveness","authors":"Mohamed Zerrouk ,&nbsp;Trisha Ravigopal,&nbsp;Martha Ann Bell","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101932","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research indicates that child temperament and maternal behaviors are related to internalizing behaviors in children. We assessed whether maternal intrusiveness (MI) observed at 10-months would moderate the impact of temperamental fear and the impact of inhibitory control (IC) at 24 months on anxiety problems at 36 months. A mother-child interaction task was coded for MI. Behavioral tasks were given to assess children’s IC. Parents completed questionnaires about their children’s temperamental fear and anxiety problems. Results showed that greater temperamental fear reported at 24 months predicted greater anxiety problems reported at 36 months, regardless of MI levels. Lower levels of IC at 24 months predicted more anxiety problems reported at 36 months when children experienced greater MI. These findings illustrate the importance of examining both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, independently and interactively, that contribute to children’s anxiety problems in toddlerhood.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140138301","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":"Look at Grandma! Joint visual attention over video chat during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Lauren J. Myers ,&nbsp;Gabrielle A. Strouse ,&nbsp;Elisabeth R. McClure ,&nbsp;Krystyna R. Keller ,&nbsp;Lucinda I. Neely ,&nbsp;Isabella Stoto ,&nbsp;Nithya S. Vadakattu ,&nbsp;Erin D. Kim ,&nbsp;Georgene L. Troseth ,&nbsp;Rachel Barr ,&nbsp;Jennifer M. Zosh","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social interactions are crucial for many aspects of development. One developmentally important milestone is joint visual attention (JVA), or shared attention between child and adult on an object, person, or event. Adults support infants’ development of JVA by structuring the input they receive, with the goal of infants learning to use JVA to communicate. When family members are separated from the infants in their lives, video chat sessions between children and distant relatives allow for shared back-and-forth turn taking interaction across the screen, but JVA is complicated by screen mediation. During video chat, when a participant is looking or pointing at the screen to something in the other person’s environment, there is no line of sight that can be followed to their object of focus. Sensitive caregivers in the remote and local environment with the infant may be able to structure interactions to support infants in using JVA to communicate across screens. We observed naturalistic video chat interactions longitudinally from 50 triads (infant, co-viewing parent, remote grandmother). Longitudinal growth models showed that JVA rate changes with child age (4 to 20 months). Furthermore, grandmother sensitivity predicted JVA rate and infant attention. More complex sessions (sessions involving more people, those with a greater proportion of across-screen JVA, and those where infants initiated more of the JVA) resulted in lower amounts of JVA-per-minute, and evidence of family-level individual differences emerged in all models. We discuss the potential of video chat to enhance communication for separated families in the digital world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140113128","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":"It’s You and Me: Infants’ cross-modal communicative signals and mother-infant interactive behavior predict infant regulatory patterns in the still-face paradigm at 3 months","authors":"Marina Fuertes ,&nbsp;Rita Almeida ,&nbsp;Inês Martelo ,&nbsp;Miguel Barbosa ,&nbsp;Marjorie Beeghly","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infant regulatory behavior develops since birth and impacts their early social interactions. Infants differ in the relative coherence and incoherence of their cross-modal communicative signals during <em>en-face</em> infant-caregiver interactions. We expand this research by evaluating whether different infant regulatory patterns observed during the Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) at 3 months are associated with the coherence or incoherence of infants’ cross-modal communicative behaviors during <em>en-face</em> interactions or with multiple dimensions of mother-infant interactive behavior during free-play. Analyses were based on data collected from 100 mother-infant dyads from urban, working- and middle-class backgrounds in Portugal who were videotaped during the FFSF and free play at 3 months. Results confirm that infants’ different regulatory behavior patterns in the FFSF at 3 months are associated with the coherence and incoherence of their cross-modal interactive behaviors and specific aspects of mother-infant interaction. Infants with a Social-Positive oriented regulatory pattern during the FFSF displayed more coherent and less incoherent communicative behaviors with their mothers and were more cooperative during free play. In turn, their mothers were more sensitive. Our findings support the perspective that infants' regulatory behavior strategies in the context of caregiver regulatory support and sensitivity are likely to increase dyadic correspondence and infant ability to engage with the world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638324000092/pdfft?md5=dab57d7eeb0ea00bd23abce3d4b398d3&pid=1-s2.0-S0163638324000092-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140095414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 maternal anxiety and infants’ temperament: The mediating role of mindful parenting","authors":"Joana del Hoyo-Bilbao,&nbsp;Izaskun Orue","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has indicated that maternal anxiety does have an effect on infant temperament. Therefore, it is important to study the variables that could play a role in this relationship. In this study, we propose that mindful parenting could act as a mediator in this relationship. Thus, the main objective was to evaluate the relationship between maternal anxiety and child temperament (i.e., negative affectivity, surgency, and effortful control) through the mindful parenting of mothers. Mothers (<em>N</em> = 225) self-reported their anxiety, mindful parenting use, and the temperament of their old infants (aged 4–18 months). First, the reliability and validity results showed that the infant version of the Interpersonal Mindful Parenting questionnaire was a good tool for the assessment of mindful parenting among parents with infants. The five-factor structure of the questionnaire was confirmed; it involved self-regulation in the parenting relationship, listening with full attention, emotional awareness of the child, compassion for the child, and non-judgmental acceptance of parenting behavior. Correlational analyses showed that maternal anxiety was related to negative affectivity and effortful control in infants. Furthermore, mediational analyses indicated that the relation between maternal anxiety and infant negative affectivity was mediated by self-regulation in parenting and the emotional awareness of the child. In addition, the relation between maternal anxiety and infant effortful control was mediated by compassion for the child and listening with full attention. These results contribute to knowledge about the relation between maternal anxiety and child temperament, which may increase the risk of psychological symptoms. The results of this study suggest that promoting mindful parenting skills may be beneficial for affectivity and effortful control in infants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638324000109/pdfft?md5=bdbcbab1a9f255a9a1299f8c2cbf1b7b&pid=1-s2.0-S0163638324000109-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140062102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings","authors":"Didar Karadağ ,&nbsp;Marina Bazhydai ,&nbsp;Sümeyye Koşkulu-Sancar ,&nbsp;Hilal H. Şen","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infants actively initiate social interactions aiming to elicit different types of responses from other people. This study aimed to document a variety of communicative interactions initiated by 18-month-old Turkish infants from diverse SES (<em>N</em> = 43) with their caregivers in their natural home settings. The infant-initiated interactions such as use of deictic gestures (e.g., pointing, holdouts), action demonstrations, vocalizations, and non-specific play actions were coded from video recordings and classified into two categories as need-based and non-need-based. Need-based interactions were further classified as a) biological (e.g., feeding); b) socio-emotional (e.g., cuddling), and non-need-based interactions (i.e., communicative intentions) were coded as a) expressive, b) requestive; c) information/help-seeking; d) information-giving. Infant-initiated non-need-based (88%) interactions were more prevalent compared to need-based interactions (12%). Among the non-need-based interactions, 50% aimed at expressing or sharing attention or emotion, 26% aimed at requesting an object or an action, and 12% aimed at seeking information or help. Infant-initiated information-giving events were rare. We further investigated the effects of familial SES and infant sex, finding no effect of either on the number of infant-initiated interactions. These findings suggest that at 18 months, infants actively communicate with their social partners to fulfil their need-based and non-need-based motivations using a wide range of verbal and nonverbal behaviors, regardless of their sex and socio-economic background. This study thoroughly characterizes a wide and detailed range of infant-initiated spontaneous communicative bids in hard-to-access contexts (infants’ daily lives at home) and with a traditionally underrepresented non-WEIRD population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163638324000067/pdfft?md5=14b93fc8dc1e6177d5a2b285a465d932&pid=1-s2.0-S0163638324000067-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140000256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let’s make music as we normally do: A systematic review of how early natural musical interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in research","authors":"Beatriz Cavero ,&nbsp;Pastora Martínez-Castilla ,&nbsp;Ruth Campos","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Musical interactions between babies and their primary caregivers are very frequent during the early years of life and their impact on dyadic interaction and infants’ development has garnered significant attention in recent literature. However, the difficulties that natural observations entail have meant that research often carries out methodological manipulations that have a significant impact on the phenomenon studied. In order to clarify how to investigate best natural musical interactions and the information that these can provide, we have carried out a systematic review to analyze the proposed scenarios and the variables analyzed in the studies published on such interactions between main caregivers and babies under three years old. We have screened 971 articles and yielded 27. We have found a higher prevalence in the literature of studies on singing interactions, between mothers and babies under 12 months of age. We have also been able to identify two extremes in terms of methodological structuring of natural interactions. Regarding the analysis variables, a few behaviors are repeated throughout the studies, being emotions, rhythmic behaviors and characterizations of the vocal emissions common between parents and babies. Synchrony is the dyadic variable with the most weight and also one of the preferred focuses of interest in the most recent literature that has undergone a shift of focus from characterization of musical interactions to the search for the mechanisms that underlie and make them specific.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139993226","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":"Breakdowns and repairs: Communication initiation and effectiveness in infants with and without an older sibling with autism","authors":"Samantha Plate ,&nbsp;Jana M. Iverson","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infants initiate interactions to get their wants and needs met; but sometimes they are not effective in their communication and are misunderstood by caregivers. When this happens, they must recognize this breakdown in communication and attempt repairs. Experimental literature suggests that in neurotypically developing infants these skills develop during the first two years. However, little work has investigated communication breakdowns and repairs in populations of infants with known social communication difficulties (e.g., infants with an elevated likelihood for autism). Here we explored early social communication initiations, breakdowns, and repair strategies in naturalistic videos of 18-month-old infants (<em>N</em> = 64) with elevated likelihood (EL) for autism and other developmental delays (<em>N</em> = 49) and infants with population-level likelihood for autism (e.g., typical likelihood, TL, <em>N</em> = 15). EL infants, including those who later met criteria for autism (EL-AUT), initiated with caregivers, experienced breakdowns, and made repairs at similar rates to TL infants. However, the types of behaviors used differed, such that EL infants appeared to have a relative strength in making behavior regulation bids. EL-AUT infants used a large proportion of developmentally appropriate repair behaviors (i.e., addition and substitution), even though their repertoires of repair strategies were smaller. Additionally, EL-AUT infants produced a larger proportion of simplification repairs, which are less developmentally advanced and less helpful to interlocutors. Identifying patterns in how EL infants communicate with caregivers and capitalizing on their strengths could improve interventions focused on social communication.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139699711","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":"Focused attention as a new sitter: How do infants balance it all?","authors":"Michele Gonçalves Maia ,&nbsp;Sapir Soker-Elimaliah ,&nbsp;Karl Jancart ,&nbsp;Regina T. Harbourne ,&nbsp;Sarah E. Berger","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study investigated the impact of postural control on infants’ Focused Attention (FA). Study 1 examined whether and how sitting independently versus with support impacted 6- to 8-month-old infants’ ability to focus attention during object exploration. FA measures did not depend on support condition. However, sitting experience was significantly negatively correlated with FA measures in the supported condition, suggesting that infants with more sitting experience performed fewer exploratory movements, possibly due to faster </span>information processing<span> ability compared to infants with less sitting experience. These unexpected findings prompted an exploration of more subtle looking behaviors during FA in Study 2—a case study of three infants who wore a head-mounted eye-tracker during an FA task. The ability to rapidly shift visual attention was key to gathering environmental information useful for problem solving—an interpretation that is supported by prior findings of the relationship between fast looks and faster information processing.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673863","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":"Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants","authors":"Megan A. Taylor ,&nbsp;Stefany Coxe ,&nbsp;Eliza L. Nelson","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The ability to coordinate the hands together to act on objects where each hand does something different is known as role-differentiated bimanual manipulation (RDBM). This study investigated two motor skills that may support the development of RDBM: infants’ early object skill and their early sitting skill. To evaluate these potential predictors of RDBM growth, 90 infants were examined in a lab-based longitudinal design over a 9-month period. Latent growth modeling was used to estimate RDBM growth trajectories over 9 to 14 months from infants’ object and sitting skills at 6 months, controlling for infant’s sex, mother’s education, and family income. Higher object skill, controlling for sitting skill, was related to a higher increase in RDBM over time. Sitting did not predict infants’ change in RDBM over time, controlling for object skill. The ability to manage multiple objects may support collaborative hand use by providing infants with opportunities to practice actions that will be needed later for RDBM. By comparison, sitting may free the hands in an unspecified manner for manipulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139577330","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’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary","authors":"Elena Nicoladis,&nbsp;Poliana G. Barbosa","doi":"10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infants often start pointing toward the end of their first year of life. Pointing shows a strong link to language, perhaps because parents label what infants point to. In the present study, we tested whether 9-month-olds’ pointing was related to parental sensitivity and concurrent and subsequent vocabulary scores. Observations were made of 88 9-month-old infants in free-play situations with their mothers. Less than half the infants produced at least one index-finger point. The mothers’ reactions to their infants’ behaviour were coded for sensitivity. The mothers of the infants who pointed were less directing and responded more contingently than the mothers of the infants who did not point. However, there was no difference in vocabulary scores of pointers and non-pointers, either concurrently or at 12 and 18 months of age. These results could mean that parents’ reactions play an important role in shaping pointing to be communicative.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48222,"journal":{"name":"Infant Behavior & Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016363832400002X/pdfft?md5=f451ad272d6bd4fef472c1d9198e8bba&pid=1-s2.0-S016363832400002X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139493540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}