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Multiaxial evaluation of mother-child interaction in toddlers with feeding problems 幼儿喂养问题中母子互动的多轴评价

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2026.102179

Hatice Gülşen , Koray Karabekiroğlu , Elif Pekmezci Yazgı , Miraç Barış Usta , Tuğba Ayçiçek Dinçer

Recent research emphasizes the critical role of parent-child interaction quality in the development and maintenance of feeding problems (FP). This study examined the relationship between mother-toddler interaction quality and FP in in toddlers aged 12–36 months, incorporating recent theoretical advances and intervention approaches. A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted with 58 mother-toddler dyads (33 with FP, 25 nonFP) recruited from pediatric and child psychiatry clinics. Mothers completed standardized assessments including Infancy Adaptive Eating Behavior Scale, Brief Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment, and Brief Symptom Inventory. Mother-toddler interactions during play and structured tasks were video-recorded and scored using the Mother-Toddler Interaction Multiaxial Assessment (MTI-MAXA). Toddlers with FP exhibited significantly more problematic eating behaviors and lower interaction quality compared to nonFP group. Mothers in the FP group had significantly lower total scores, particularly in Reciprocity and Flexibility-Adaptation. Toddlers in the FP group showed lower scores across most subscales, with overall dyadic interaction quality significantly poorer. Higher child involvement scores were associated with reduced odds of having FP, and greater maternal interaction quality predicted lower FP severity. No significant differences were found in maternal or child psychopathological risk between groups. The MTI-MAXA demonstrated excellent interrater reliability, with high internal consistency for both maternal (α =.933) and child (α =.946) interaction scores. These findings demonstrate that early relational difficulties contribute to FP independently of psychopathology. The study provides evidence for the effectiveness of observational assessment tools in identifying at-risk dyads and supports the implementation of family-centered, relationally-focused interventions. Early identification and targeted intervention focusing on interaction quality may prevent the escalation of subclinical difficulties into diagnosable feeding disorders.

最近的研究强调了亲子互动质量在喂养问题（FP）的发展和维持中的关键作用。本研究结合最新的理论进展和干预方法，探讨了12-36月龄幼儿的母婴互动质量与FP的关系。一项横断面比较研究从儿科和儿童精神病学诊所招募了58对母子（33对有生育障碍，25对没有生育障碍）。母亲完成了标准化的评估，包括婴儿适应性饮食行为量表、婴儿-幼儿社会情绪简短评估和症状简短量表。母亲-幼儿在游戏和结构化任务中的互动被录像并使用母亲-幼儿互动多轴评估（MTI-MAXA）进行评分。与非FP组相比，FP组幼儿表现出更多的问题饮食行为和更低的互动质量。FP组的母亲总分明显较低，尤其是在互惠和灵活性-适应性方面。FP组的幼儿在大多数子量表上得分较低，整体二元互动质量明显较差。儿童参与得分越高，患FP的几率越低，母亲互动质量越高，患FP的严重程度越低。两组间母亲或儿童的精神病理风险无显著差异。MTI-MAXA显示了良好的相互作用信度，母亲（α =.933）和儿童（α =.946）的相互作用得分具有很高的内部一致性。这些研究结果表明，早期关系困难与精神病理无关，是导致FP的原因。该研究为观察性评估工具在识别风险双性恋方面的有效性提供了证据，并支持以家庭为中心、以关系为重点的干预措施的实施。早期识别和针对互动质量的有针对性的干预可以防止亚临床困难升级为可诊断的喂养障碍。

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The role of parental emotional factors in toddler’s amount of screen use 父母情绪因素对幼儿屏幕使用时间的影响。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2026.102178

Caroline Foutry , Claire Hofer , Jenny S. Radesky , Oana A. David , Marie Danet

In today’s world, children have high exposure to near-ubiquitous digital media in their homes. However, early use has been linked with developmental and emotional delays. In this context, the aim of our research was to examine specific emotional parental factors (i.e. anxiety-depressive and stress symptoms and parental reactions to children’s negative emotions) that may be associated with the amount of screen time toddlers have during weekdays and weekends. A total of 100 parents of toddlers aged 12–36 months participated in the study, completing questionnaires. The findings revealed that parents’ anxiety-depressive and stress symptoms were linked to their toddlers’ digital media use, particularly on weekends. Additionally, parents' reactions to their children's negative emotions were most strongly associated with weekend television usage. Overall, regardless of the type of screen or time of use, higher exposure to TV or mobile devices was associated with the greater likelihood of parents using screens as a response to their children’s negative emotions and a reduced likelihood of encouraging emotional expression. Moreover, associations between parental anxiety-depressive and stress symptoms and toddler weekday and weekend screen time were mediated by using screens to help children regulate emotions. This research enhances our understanding of the factors that may influence toddlers’ screen exposure. Targeted interventions addressing these factors could be developed to prevent or mitigate early and extensive screen use in young children.

在当今世界，孩子们在家中高度接触到几乎无处不在的数字媒体。然而，早期使用与发育和情感延迟有关。在这种情况下，我们研究的目的是检查特定的情感父母因素（即焦虑抑郁和压力症状以及父母对儿童负面情绪的反应），这些因素可能与幼儿在工作日和周末的屏幕时间有关。共有100名年龄在12-36 个月的幼儿的父母参与了这项研究，并完成了问卷调查。研究结果显示，父母的焦虑、抑郁和压力症状与他们的孩子使用数字媒体有关，尤其是在周末。此外，父母对孩子负面情绪的反应与周末看电视的时间密切相关。总体而言，无论屏幕的类型或使用时间如何，暴露于电视或移动设备的时间越长，父母越有可能使用屏幕来回应孩子的负面情绪，而鼓励孩子表达情绪的可能性就越低。此外，父母焦虑抑郁和压力症状与幼儿工作日和周末的屏幕时间之间的关联通过使用屏幕来帮助儿童调节情绪来调解。这项研究增强了我们对可能影响幼儿屏幕暴露的因素的理解。针对这些因素可以制定有针对性的干预措施，以防止或减轻幼儿早期和广泛使用筛查。

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Sequential communication patterns reflecting building blocks of conversation: Associations with toddler temperament and mother and father sensitivity 反映对话构建模块的顺序沟通模式：与幼儿气质和父母敏感性的联系。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102177

Margaret A. Fields-Olivieri, Kristin J. Jennings, Crystal E. Thinzar, Brianna M. Halter

Although parent-child conversation is a well-established predictor of subsequent language development, the field lacks understanding of how these conversations emerge and are sustained in everyday life, and of non-sociodemographic factors that account for variability in everyday parent-child conversations. In a sample of 24 one-year-olds (Mean Age = 16.47 months; 95.8 % White, 4.2 % Biracial) and their parents who completed daylong audio recordings, we identified three communication sequences reflecting crucial building blocks of parent-toddler conversation: 1) parental responses to toddler verbal/pre-verbal vocalizations, 2) the effect of parental responses on the toddler’s subsequent communicative behavior (i.e., whether the toddler vocalized again) and 3) parental initiation of conversations. We examined factors accounting for variability in these sequences, including toddler temperament (effortful control and negative affectivity), parental sensitivity, and the interaction between toddler temperament and parental sensitivity. Higher toddler effortful control predicted marginally greater likelihood of maternal responses to toddler vocalizations, marginally greater likelihood that toddlers vocalized following maternal responses, and significantly greater likelihood that fathers initiated conversation with their toddlers. The effects of toddler negative affectivity were largely moderated by parental sensitivity, with higher negative affectivity generally being negatively associated with sequential patterns of parent-toddler conversation engagement, but with higher mother or father sensitivity buffering against or compensating for some of these disruptions. The results highlight the need to disentangle different aspects of parent-toddler conversation to understand factors that account for individual differences in conversation engagement in naturalistic settings.

虽然亲子对话是一个公认的语言发展的预测指标，但该领域缺乏对这些对话如何在日常生活中出现和持续的理解，以及解释日常亲子对话变化的非社会人口因素。在24名1岁儿童（平均年龄为16.47个月，白人占95.8 %，混血儿占4.2 %）及其父母完成全天录音的样本中，我们确定了三个沟通序列，反映了亲子对话的关键组成部分：1)父母对幼儿言语/言语前发声的反应，2)父母的反应对幼儿随后的交际行为的影响（即，幼儿是否再次发声），3)父母发起的对话。我们研究了导致这些序列变异的因素，包括幼儿气质（努力控制和消极情感）、父母敏感性以及幼儿气质和父母敏感性之间的相互作用。幼儿努力控制程度越高，母亲对幼儿发声的反应可能性越高，幼儿在母亲反应后发声的可能性越高，父亲主动与幼儿交谈的可能性越高。幼儿负面情感的影响在很大程度上受到父母敏感性的调节，较高的负面情感通常与亲子对话参与的顺序模式呈负相关，但较高的母亲或父亲敏感性可以缓冲或补偿这些干扰。研究结果强调，需要理清亲子对话的不同方面，以了解在自然环境中导致对话参与的个体差异的因素。

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Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation 人工耳蜗植入儿童和听力正常儿童在激活后第一年的词汇使用情况。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102176

Jongmin Jung , Yuanyuan Wang , Tonya Bergeson , Derek Houston

This study compared caregivers' use of content words (common nouns, verbs, adjectives) in speech directed to young children with cochlear implants (CIs) and those with normal hearing (NH). Specifically, we examined potential group differences in caregivers' use of content words during the first year following CI activation. We analyzed free play interactions for three groups of 12 caregiver-child dyads: (1) caregivers of children with CIs (mean age at activation = 13.77 months, SD = 4.31), (2) caregivers of NH children matched by hearing experience to the CI group (NHE), and (3) caregivers of NH children matched by chronological age to the CI group (NCA). Interactions were recorded at 3, 6, and 12 months post-activation (or equivalent). Caregivers' speech was transcribed and coded to measure the number of words (tokens) and unique word forms (types) for each content word class. Linear mixed-effects models showed a marginally significant effect of group on word tokens. A significant difference in word types was found between the CI group and both NH groups. Caregivers of younger NH children used more tokens and types than caregivers of children with CIs. Children with NH experience more word tokens and greater word variety in caregiver speech compared to children with CIs during their first year of robust hearing. This richer input may benefit NH children’s language development, while children with CIs may experience different patterns of exposure to a variety of word types, reflecting their current developmental levels. Further research is needed to explore how caregiver speech affects language outcomes in children with CIs.

本研究比较了护理人员对植入人工耳蜗的幼儿（CIs）和听力正常的幼儿（NH）说话时实义词（普通名词、动词、形容词）的使用情况。具体地说，我们检查了在CI激活后的第一年照顾者使用实词的潜在组差异。我们分析了三组12名儿童的自由游戏互动情况：(1)CIs儿童的照顾者（激活时平均年龄= 13.77个月，SD = 4.31），(2)听力经验匹配的NH儿童的照顾者与CI组（NHE），(3)按实足年龄匹配的NH儿童的照顾者与CI组（NCA）。在激活后（或同等时间）记录3、6和12个月的相互作用。对照顾者的言语进行转录和编码，以测量每个内容词类的单词（标记）数量和独特的单词形式（类型）。线性混合效应模型显示，组对词标记的影响是边际显著的。CI组和NH组在字型上有显著差异。年幼NH儿童的照顾者比CIs儿童的照顾者使用更多的代币和类型。在听力健全的第一年，与CIs儿童相比，NH儿童在照顾者讲话中体验到更多的单词标记和更大的单词多样性。这种丰富的输入可能有利于NH儿童的语言发展，而CIs儿童可能会经历不同模式的接触各种单词类型，反映他们当前的发展水平。需要进一步的研究来探索照顾者的言语如何影响CIs儿童的语言结果。

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Different patterns of association between maternal mental health and infant negative affect subdomains: Findings from the Germina cohort 母亲心理健康与婴儿负面影响子域之间的不同关联模式：来自Germina队列的研究结果。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102174

Erick Medeiros , Pedro Tótolo , Pedro Zuccolo , André Fujita , Luisa Sugaya , Tatiane Borja , Helena Brentani , Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk , Daniel Fatori

Negative affect (NA) is a central dimension of infant temperament and an early marker of risk for later psychopathology. While maternal mental health has been associated with increased infant NA, few studies have explored how maternal mental health symptoms relate to the specific subdomains of NA throughout infancy. This study examined longitudinal associations between maternal mental health and infant NA, comparing the general domain with its specific subdomains. We analyzed data from 557 mother–infant dyads enrolled in the Germina cohort in São Paulo, Brazil. Maternal symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, along with infant NA and its subdomains—sadness, fear, distress to limitations, and falling reactivity—were assessed at 3, 5–9, and 10–16 months postpartum. Longitudinal associations were examined using linear mixed-effects models with successive-differences contrasts, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates. Maternal stress consistently predicted higher NA and its subdomains—sadness, fear, and distress—across infancy, and was linked to reduced falling reactivity. Depression was associated with increased NA, distress, and decreased reactivity throughout infancy. Anxiety exhibited a time-varying association with distress, increasing from 3 to 9 months before declining, but showed no link with overall NA. Subdomain-specific analyses uncovered maternal mental health associations not evident in general NA models. Examining NA subdomains provides a more detailed understanding of their evolving, dynamic relationships with maternal mental health across infancy. These insights highlight the importance of integrating NA subdomains into screening and intervention strategies to more effectively support at-risk children.

负性情绪（NA）是婴儿气质的一个中心维度，也是后期精神病理风险的早期标志。虽然产妇心理健康与婴儿NA增加有关，但很少有研究探讨产妇心理健康症状与整个婴儿时期NA的特定子域之间的关系。本研究考察了母亲心理健康与婴儿NA之间的纵向关联，比较了一般域与其特定子域。我们分析了在巴西圣保罗的Germina队列中登记的557对母婴的数据。在产后3个月、5-9个月和10-16个月评估母亲的抑郁、焦虑和压力症状，以及婴儿NA及其子域——悲伤、恐惧、对限制的困扰和反应能力下降。纵向关联使用线性混合效应模型与连续差异对比进行检验，调整社会人口协变量。在整个婴儿期，母亲的压力始终预示着更高的NA及其子域——悲伤、恐惧和痛苦，并与减少跌倒反应有关。在整个婴儿期，抑郁症与NA增加、痛苦和反应性降低有关。焦虑表现出随时间变化的相关性，从3到9个月增加，然后下降，但与总体NA没有联系。子域特异性分析揭示了在一般NA模型中不明显的孕产妇心理健康关联。检查NA子域可以更详细地了解它们在婴儿期与母亲心理健康的动态关系。这些见解强调了将NA子域整合到筛查和干预策略中以更有效地支持高危儿童的重要性。

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Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions 应用基于transformer的机器学习模型对二元交互过程中看护人和婴儿的行为进行分类。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102175

Alexander Turner , Aly Magassouba , Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar

Multimodal caregiver-infant interactions have both concurrent and long-term impacts on child attention, cognitive and social skills. These behaviours are typically manually coded by human researchers, making this approach susceptible to observer bias, dependent on inter-rater reliability, and substantial demands on time and resources. In this study, we aimed to develop a multimodal machine-learning model that could be capable of automatically detecting and classifying multimodal behaviours from video recordings of caregivers and their infants (N = 81; infant mean age = 251.3 ± 34.9 days) engaging with objects. We focused on caregiver scaffolding, caregiver intrusiveness, infant object engagement and infant distractibility. Low-level features from audio, video, and pose data were extracted using specific AI models, and input into a Transformer-based architecture capable of learning temporal patterns across modalities. Our findings revealed a significant contrast in model performance depending on how the data was partitioned. Following previous research, when the dataset was split such that data from all dyads contributed to the training, validation, and test sets - the models achieved notably high classification accuracy of over 98 %. However, when tested on entirely unseen dyads, the performance dropped markedly to around 55 %. These results suggest that the models did not learn behaviors of interest but instead relied on video-specific or dyad-specific details - underscoring key generalizability challenges in applying Transformer-based models to complex, multimodal behavioral data. Nonetheless, this work lays a foundation for future research aimed at refining these models and extending their applicability across diverse caregiving contexts.

多模式的照顾者-婴儿互动对儿童的注意力、认知和社交技能有同时和长期的影响。这些行为通常是由人类研究人员手动编码的，这使得这种方法容易受到观察者偏见的影响，依赖于评分者之间的可靠性，并且对时间和资源的需求很大。在这项研究中，我们的目标是开发一个多模态机器学习模型，该模型能够自动检测和分类护理人员及其婴儿（N = 81；婴儿平均年龄= 251.3 ± 34.9天）与物体接触的视频记录中的多模态行为。我们关注的是看护人的脚手架，看护人的侵入性，婴儿对物体的参与和婴儿的注意力分散。使用特定的人工智能模型提取音频、视频和姿态数据中的低级特征，并将其输入到基于transformer的架构中，该架构能够跨模态学习时间模式。我们的发现揭示了模型性能的显著差异，这取决于数据的划分方式。根据之前的研究，当数据集被分割，使得来自所有双组的数据都用于训练、验证和测试集时，模型实现了超过98 %的高分类准确率。然而，当在完全看不见的对子上测试时，性能明显下降到55% %左右。这些结果表明，模型没有学习感兴趣的行为，而是依赖于特定于视频或特定于双元组的细节——强调了将基于transformer的模型应用于复杂的多模态行为数据时的关键通用性挑战。尽管如此，这项工作为未来的研究奠定了基础，旨在完善这些模型并扩展其在不同护理环境中的适用性。

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The Italian MB-CDI ‘Words and Gestures’ complete and short form: Normative data and validity 意大利语MB-CDI“语言和手势”的完整和简短形式：规范性数据和有效性。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102173

Pasquale Rinaldi , Arianna Bello , Silvia Stefanini , Maria Cristina Caselli , Patrizio Pasqualetti

This study compares normative data of the Italian Words and Gestures complete form (WG CF) and short form (WG SF) of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI). The samples included 648 children for the WG CF and 583 children for the WG-SF designed for children aged 8–24 months. The concordance between WG SF and WG CF is analyzed in a subgroup of 66 children. Results revealed very close developmental trends as assessed through the two forms, and strong correlations between action/gesture production, word comprehension and word production. The two forms showed high concurrent validity with Intra-Class-Correlation coefficients higher than 0.70, suggesting that the two forms may be used interchangeably in order to describe early communicative and linguistic development in children up to 24 months of age, paying particular attention of saturation of the short form in assessing action-gesture production.

本研究比较了麦克阿瑟-贝茨交际发展量表（MB-CDI）意大利语单词和手势完整形式（WG CF）和简短形式（WG SF）的规范数据。样本包括648名WG CF儿童和583名WG sf儿童，这些儿童是为8-24个月大的儿童设计的。在66例儿童的亚组中分析了WG SF和WG CF的一致性。结果显示，通过两种形式评估的发展趋势非常接近，动作/手势产生、单词理解和单词产生之间存在很强的相关性。这两种形式显示出较高的并发效度，类内相关系数高于0.70，这表明这两种形式可以互换使用，以描述24个月以下儿童的早期交际和语言发展，在评估动作手势产生时特别注意短形式的饱和度。

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A quarter century review of research on infant behavior 婴儿行为研究的四分之一世纪回顾。

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102159

Lela Rankin, Martha E. Arterberry, Alessandra Geraci, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Jessica S. Horst, Atsuko Nakagawa, Sylvain Sirois

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Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants 母亲更好的反思功能与婴儿更长的共同注意力有关

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102166

Nursena Koç , Hüseyin Ünlü , Berna A. Uzundağ

Joint attention is a foundational precursor to later developmental outcomes such as vocabulary, intelligence, and theory of mind. Previous research has shown that maternal sensitivity, depressive symptoms, and parent-child attachment security are associated with attention-sharing behaviors between mothers and their infants. The present study examined the relationship between mothers’ reflective functioning (the ability to recognize and interpret one’s own and one’s child’s mental states, as well as the behaviors motivated by those mental states) and joint attention. Data were collected from 72 infants aged 10–16 months and their mothers. Results indicated that mothers who reported greater difficulty in understanding and distinguishing between their own and their child's mental states (i.e., higher prementalization) tended to engage in joint attention episodes that were shorter and more frequent, and they were also more likely to terminate these interactions. In contrast, mothers expressing greater interest and curiosity about their infants’ mental states spent longer periods in joint attention, initiated these episodes less often, and were less inclined to terminate them. Additionally, mothers who felt more certain about their infants’ mental states were less likely to end joint attention episodes. After controlling for infant age and socioeconomic status, higher levels of interest and certainty continued to predict lower maternal termination, while prementalization was still linked to a higher number of joint attention episodes. These findings suggest that mothers’ perceptions of their infants’ mental states shape how they engage in shared attention during everyday play interactions.

共同注意是日后发展的基础，如词汇、智力和心智理论。先前的研究表明，母亲的敏感性、抑郁症状和亲子依恋安全与母亲和婴儿之间的注意力分享行为有关。本研究考察了母亲的反思功能（识别和解释自己和孩子的精神状态以及由这些精神状态引起的行为的能力）与共同注意之间的关系。数据收集自72名年龄在10-16 个月的婴儿及其母亲。结果表明，在理解和区分自己和孩子的精神状态方面有更大困难的母亲（即，更高的精神化）倾向于参与更短、更频繁的共同注意事件，她们也更有可能终止这些互动。相比之下，对婴儿的精神状态表现出更大兴趣和好奇心的母亲花了更长的时间共同关注，开始这些发作的频率更低，也更不倾向于终止它们。此外，对婴儿精神状态更有把握的母亲不太可能结束共同注意力发作。在控制了婴儿年龄和社会经济地位之后，更高水平的兴趣和确定性继续预测更低的产妇终止妊娠，而前精神化仍然与更高数量的共同注意事件有关。这些发现表明，母亲对婴儿心理状态的感知决定了他们在日常游戏互动中如何分享注意力。

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Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes 父母幸福感和语言输入预测儿童面孔-声音匹配和表达性语言结果

IF 2 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development

Pub Date : 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102163

Elizabeth V. Edgar , Kaitlyn Testa , Bethany Ramirez , Ryan A. Cannistraci , James Torrence Todd , Lorraine E. Bahrick

Parent well-being and quality of language input are well-established predictors of child language. Recently, child intersensory processing of faces and voices was found to predict child language. However, relations between child skills (e.g., intersensory processing) and parent factors (e.g., well-being, language input) remain unclear. This study assessed relations among parent well-being, quality of language input, child intersensory processing, and language in 97 children (51% female; 70% White, 65% Hispanic; 52% mothers with Bachelor’s degree or higher) at 36 months. Greater well-being and quality of language input predicted greater intersensory face-voice matching, which predicted greater expressive (not receptive) vocabulary size at 36 months. This study demonstrates the importance of contributions of parent behaviors to child intersensory face-voice matching skills, and in turn, language.

父母的幸福感和语言输入的质量是公认的儿童语言的预测因素。最近，儿童对面孔和声音的感觉间处理被发现可以预测儿童的语言。然而，儿童技能（如感官间加工）与父母因素（如幸福感、语言输入）之间的关系尚不清楚。本研究评估了97名儿童（51%为女性，70%为白人，65%为西班牙裔，52%为具有学士学位或更高学历的母亲）在36个月时父母幸福感、语言输入质量、儿童感觉间加工和语言之间的关系。更高的幸福感和语言输入质量预示着更大的感觉间面孔-声音匹配，这预示着36个月时更大的表达性（而非接受性）词汇量。本研究证明了父母行为对儿童感觉间面孔-声音匹配技能的重要性，进而对语言的贡献。

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