Infants' social-constructive interactions with mothers and fathers.

Hunter, Fumiyo T.; McCarthy, Marie; MacTurk, Robert H.; Vietze, Peter M.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.23.2.249

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“…Not surprisingly, infant scores did increase with age. Similar findings have been reported elsewhere (Belskyet al, 1984;Hunter et al, 1987). In this study, older infants exhibited greater clarity in their cues and increased responsiveness to their fathers.…”

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“…The database represents a wide range of ages in infancy. A fact worthy of caution because infant age does influence infant behavior as found in this study and in other research (Belsky, Gilstrap, & Rovine, 1984;Hunter et al, 1987).…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Fathers tend to verbalize less to their infants (Clarke-Stewart, 1978;Lamb, Frodi, Hwang, Frodi, & Steinberg, 1982;Pedersen, Anderson, & Cain, 1980), and they hold their infants during play more than mothers do. Despite these differences, fathers and mothers adjust their behaviors in response to their infants' behaviors and developmental level Hunter et al, 1987;Power, 1985).…”

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“…While such research has provided valuable information about the responsiveness of fathers to infants (Parke & Sawin, 1976) and the ways in which fathers alter their behaviors (Belsky, Gilstrap, & Rovine, 1984;Hunter, McCarthy, MacTurk, & Vietze, 1987 ) and speech patterns (Greenbaum & Landeau, 1982) during interactions with infants, more research with lower income populations is needed. At this time, little is known about interactions between low-income fathers and infants.…”

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Low-income fathers and their infants: Interactions during teaching episodes

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Infant Ment. Health J.

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Omar

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Infant Ment. Health J.

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“…For example, Hunter, McCarthy, MacTurk, and Vietze (1987) found stability in the qualities of both mother-and father-infant interaction in play sessions over time, but only maternal style was associated with the child's later cognitive performance. However, there are links between paternal styles and the child's IQ performance (Wachs, Uzgiris, & Hunt, 1971;Yogman, Kindlon, & Earls, 1995), boys' mastery motivation (YarrowMacTurk, Vietze, McCarthy, Klein, & McQuiston, 1984), and children's later language development (MagillEvans & Harrison, 1999).…”

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Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

2003

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Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children thus appear to form closer attachments to their mothers than to their fathers. Second, the data also indicate that fathers may play specific and important roles, with men in some cultures having clearly defined roles as playmates to their children. Third, paternal play styles predict later socio-emotional development while paternal involvement seems to predict adult adjustment better than maternal involvement does. Such evidence suggests, fourth, that we need appropriate measures of fatherhood that are not simply borrowed from the study of motherhood.Thirty years ago, fathers were described as 'forgotten contributors to child development' (Lamb, 1975). Since then, men have been in and out of the research focus, but there is now a large database with which to assess the roles of men in families. For the past 15 years, more than 700 articles on fathers have been cited each year in the Psychological Abstracts database. Although we assess current research on the nature and importance of father-child relationships in this paper, therefore, we must acknowledge from the outset that a brief review can only sketch the broad outlines particularly as the study of fatherhood has become so complex and multi disciplinary. Readers are referred elsewhere for more complete summaries of the recent research (Day & Lamb, in press; Lamb, in press;Tamis-LeMonda & Cabrera, 2002). In the interest of simplicity and brevity, we confine our analysis to research on two-parent households.We argue here that, when two parents live with their children, fathers contribute to their children's development in important ways. Not only should we take men into account when studying families [as do the other papers in this special edition], but we should also consider

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Shared focus in mother—child joint activity in the second year of life

Aureli

1994

Early Dev. Parent.

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Shared focus between mother and child during joint activity was examined. Ten dyads were observed at 16 and 20 months. We found that the level of conventionality expressed by shared focus inmaws with age. The activity becomes more oriented towards the cultural aspects of the objects than to material aspects, and social games become more oriented towards symbolic and linguistic aspects than to practical ones. Moreover, we found that the content of the game influences the function of the child's utterances both at 16 and at 20 months. These results point to the cultural specification of joint activity, which can be viewed as mediating the development of intersubjectivity as well as individual behaviour.

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Infants' social-constructive interactions with mothers and fathers.

Cited by 17 publications

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Low-income fathers and their infants: Interactions during teaching episodes

Low-income fathers and their infants: Interactions during teaching episodes

Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

Shared focus in mother—child joint activity in the second year of life

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