The Grasping Task: A 12‐month predictor of 24‐month delay task performance and BRIEF‐P inhibition scores

Neale, David E.; Basilio, Marisol; Whitebread, David

doi:10.1002/icd.2092

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“…Despite significant research on ATDG during early childhood, little work has examined responses to food delay tasks during infancy ( 48 ). Prior research has used familiar and motivating objects to test infant delay capacity ( 13 ), but researchers interested in the development of eating behavior regulation have emphasized the importance of using food-specific tasks ( 2 , 10 ). The ATDG-FIT was therefore designed to mirror ATDG-for-food tasks in older children by using milk and a familiar object (bottle or breast) to elicit infant responses while waiting to be fed.…”

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“…Behaviors that can be measured during infancy may be relevant for understanding, predicting, and ultimately shaping later eating behavior regulation. For example, Neale et al ( 13 ) used a spoon grasping task with 12-month-olds which required inhibiting their response to grasp a spoon facing the wrong direction, and instead grasp the spoon handle in order to obtain food. Responses on this task at 12 months predicted ATDG for food at 24 months.…”

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Infant Distress in a Food Delay Task Changes With Development and Predicts Amount Consumed

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ObjectiveEating behavior regulation emerges during early development and involves general self-regulation (emotional, behavioral), appetite regulation (homeostatic metabolic need) and appetite self-regulation (including both Bottom-Up Food Approach and Bottom-Up Food Avoidance and top-down purposeful self-control of eating). Limited research has investigated developmental trajectories of the regulation of eating behavior before the preschool years. The current study used a novel food delay task to assess infant distress as an early emerging marker of eating behavior regulation constructs across early infancy and examine associations with amount of milk consumed.MethodMother-infant dyads (n = 179) completed the Ability to Delay Gratification for Food in Infants Task (ATDG-FIT) at 2 weeks, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks of age. The ATDG-FIT required infants to wait before being fed while their bottle was present, but not accessible (3-min Pre-Feeding Delay). After this, the infant was fed for 1 min, then the feeding was paused for 30 s (Mid-Feeding Delay). Infant distress was coded during each feeding delay period and the amount of milk consumed was measured.ResultsThe mean proportion of distress during the Pre-Feeding Delay period decreased from 8 to 16 weeks of age (F(2,230) = 15.02, p < 0.001), whereas the mean proportion of distress during the Mid-Feeding Delay increased from 2 to 8 weeks of age (F(2,230) = 27.04, p < 0.001). There was a positive interaction between distress during Mid-Feeding Delay and infant age predicting the amount consumed in the protocol (ß = 0.30, p = 0.022), suggesting that the association between distress during this part of the task and amount consumed strengthens as infants get older.ConclusionThe ATDG-FIT may be an effective method to assess emerging eating behavior regulation constructs during early infancy.

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Infant Distress in a Food Delay Task Changes With Development and Predicts Amount Consumed

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“…A new task to assess children's inhibitory/effortful control was developed during an earlier phase of this study, as reported in Neale et al (2018). The child was seated in a high chair.…”

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“…the inhibitory control applied is (at least in some cases) volitional rather than automatic. For full details on development, administration and coding of this task see Neale et al (2018).…”

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“…Multiple tests were conducted. However, as we have stated elsewhere (Neale et al 2018), due to the many problems identified with corrections for multiple comparisons, these techniques were not applied (Gelman et al 2012;Nakagawa 2004;Perneger 1998). Instead, our concern was to present the data as fully and accurately as possible, and to treat significant results as indicators of potentially interesting relations between variables.…”

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Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants: stability over time and relations with emerging effortful control

Neale

Whitebread

2019

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There is evidence that parents could influence the development of their children's effortful control in infancy through social interaction. Playful interactions in infancy often involve scaffolding -i.e. the parental provision of support and modelling for problem solving and learning during play. However, previous research has found little consistency over time in this type of parental scaffolding behaviour with infants. The present study had two aims. The first aim was to use a new, tiered coding system to assess the consistency of maternal scaffolding across toys (at the same time point) and over time. The second aim was to assess whether features of parental scaffolding related to concurrent or future measures of child effortful control. Thirty-six motherchild dyads engaged in joint play when children were 12, 18 and 24 months old. The following inhibitory/effortful control tests were administered: The 'Grasping Task', an object-retrieval task using a spoon laden with food at 12 months; Two delay of gratification tasks (Snack Delay and Gift Delay) at 24 months. The Bayley Scales of Infant Development Cognitive Scale was administered at 18 months. Maternal propensity to scaffold was the scaffolding behaviour that showed most consistency across toys and over time. Maternal contingency at 12 months predicted children's effortful control at 24 months. Sequential analysis indicated that maternal contingent interventions leading to children's successful actions could be the developmental mechanism underpinning the relationship between contingency and later effortful control. Maternal behaviour during play could lay the foundations for the strategic regulation of cognition and behaviour.

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Challenges in First‐Years Schools: Early Manifestations of Executive Function

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The Grasping Task: A 12‐month predictor of 24‐month delay task performance and BRIEF‐P inhibition scores

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Infant Distress in a Food Delay Task Changes With Development and Predicts Amount Consumed

Infant Distress in a Food Delay Task Changes With Development and Predicts Amount Consumed

Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants: stability over time and relations with emerging effortful control

Challenges in First‐Years Schools: Early Manifestations of Executive Function

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