Role of marital quality in toddler development.

Goldberg, Wendy A.; Easterbrooks, M. Ann

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.20.3.504

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“…Studies assessing marital satisfaction provide only indirect tests of the relationship between conflict, parent-child relationships, and child behavior. However, decreased marital satisfaction is associated with both increased conflict and poorer parent-child relations (Brody, Pillegrini, & Siegal, 1986;Goldberg & Easterbrooks, 1984;Johnson & Lobitz, 1974) and thus these studies highlight the importance of the parent-child relationship for understanding the association between marital conflict and child behavior. For example, frequently occurring marital conflict may lead to greater deterioration in parentchild relationships as children become more aware of and possibly more involved in parental conflict.…”

Section: Parent-child Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marital conflict and children's adjustment: A cognitive-contextual framework.

Grych¹,

Fincham²

1990

Psychological Bulletin

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Section: Parent-child Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marital conflict and children's adjustment: A cognitive-contextual framework.

Grych¹,

Fincham²

1990

Psychological Bulletin

1,509

1,664

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“…Mothers' differential sensitivity to their infants' signals during play has consequences for children's development. With play offering opportunities for learning, children of more responsive mothers were shown to display more mature play behavior (Bodle, Zhou, Shore, & Dixon, 1996) and were more adept at object exploration (Goldberg & Easterbrooks, 1984) compared with children of mothers who were less responsive to their needs. With mothers' positive affect sometimes conceived of as a component separate from responsiveness during dyadic interaction (Kirsh, Crnic, & Greenberg, 1995;Mahoney, Boyce, Fewell, Spiker, & Wheeden, 1998), mothers' affective state as seen in their mutually positive, enjoyable interactions or the lack thereof has been linked to favorable early developmental outcomes (Kochanska, 1997;Kochanska & Aksan, 1995), including symbolic competence during play .…”

Section: Nih Public Accessmentioning

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Maternal sensory sensitivity, mother–infant 9-month interaction, infant attachment status: Predictors of mother–toddler interaction at 24 months

Donovan¹,

Leavitt²,

Taylor³

et al. 2007

Infant Behavior and Development

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At 24-months of age, toddlers (N = 62) and their mothers were observed in a free-play session to determine the contribution of (a) maternal sensory sensitivity to positive and negative infant facial expressions as measured in a signal detection task at 6 months (b) maternal behavior and affect, infant behavior and affect, and dyadic interaction at 9 months, and (c) infant attachment status at 12 months in predicting maternal, toddler, and dyadic measures at 24 months. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that over and above early maternal behavior, which was predictive of later maternal behavior at 24 months, sensory sensitivity to the positive infant expression at 6 months predicted maternal behavior at 24 months and sensory sensitivity to both the positive and negative expression was associated with later maternal affect. Infant attachment status emerged as the variable which predicted toddler behavior and dyadic interaction at 24 months. Keywordssignal detection methodology; maternal sensory sensitivity; mother-infant interaction; infant attachment status; infant facial expressions The current study examined mother-toddler interaction patterns during play at 24 months by tracing their development longitudinally with respect to the potential influence of early maternal sensory sensitivity to infants' affective signaling at 6 months, maternal behavior and affect, infant behavior and affect, and dyadic interaction at 9 months, and infant attachment status at 12 months. Interaction between mothers and their infants provides opportunities for infants' socio-emotional learning and reflects the quality of dyadic interaction. Developing synchrony between a mother and her infant affords the infant reciprocal exchanges that facilitate social, emotional, and cognitive growth for the child (see Harrist & Waugh, 2002, for review). Early social play is frequently mentioned as an important relational context offering affective exchanges in the form of face-to-face play and attachment behaviors (Stern, 1995), exchanges which are thought to impact the child's development of self and others (Harel, Oppenheim, Tirosh, & Gini, 1999). Aspects of these earlier social play interactions change as the infant becomes more mobile to include exploration of the environment and manipulation of objects, with exploration of toys in the company of the mother being an important setting Corresponding author: Wilberta Donovan, Ph.D., Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1500 Highland Ave. Madison, WI 53705; Lewis Leavitt, Nicole Taylor, and Jennifer Broder are also at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin -Madison Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered...

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“…It has been well-documented that mothers and fathers in more harmonious, satisfied, and low-conflict marriages during children's infancy have more positive attitudes toward their children, participate in more caregiving activities, report greater satisfaction in parenting, and demonstrate more engagement, responsiveness, warmth, and support in parent-child interactions in dyadic and triadic family contexts (Belsky, Youngblade, Rovine, & Volling, 1991;Cox, Owen, Lewis, & Henderson, 1989;Feldman, Nash, & Aschenbrenner, 1983;Goldberg & Easterbrooks, 1984;Grych, 2002;Kitzmann, 2000;.…”

Section: Family Relationships and Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family relationships during infancy and later mother and father vocabulary use with young children

Pancsofar

Vernon–Feagans

Odom

et al. 2008

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

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Very little previous research has considered the contributions of family relationships and interactions on the language input of mothers and fathers to their young children. This study examined the contributions of marital love and conflict, and broader family-level conflict, cohesion, and expressiveness to mother and father vocabulary in triadic interactions with their young children in 70 dual-earner families. It was found that after controlling for parent sensitivity and parent directive behavior, marital love and family conflict when children were 12 months of age were significant predictors of both father vocabulary and mother vocabulary to children at 24 months of age. In families with higher levels of marital love when children were 12 months of age, mothers and fathers used a more diverse vocabulary with their 24 month-old children. In families with lower levels of family conflict when children were 12 months of age, mothers and fathers used a more diverse vocabulary with their 24 month-old children.

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Role of marital quality in toddler development.

Cited by 256 publications

References 26 publications

Marital conflict and children's adjustment: A cognitive-contextual framework.

Marital conflict and children's adjustment: A cognitive-contextual framework.

Maternal sensory sensitivity, mother–infant 9-month interaction, infant attachment status: Predictors of mother–toddler interaction at 24 months

Family relationships during infancy and later mother and father vocabulary use with young children

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