The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth

Hall, R.A.S.; Hoffenkamp, Hannah N.; Tooten, Anneke; Braeken, Johan; Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M.; Bakel, H.J.A. van

doi:10.1080/15295192.2015.1053333

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“…It should be noted, however, that we did not observe specific caregiving skills in this study, but two broad qualities of parental behavior (i.e., Sensitivity and Cooperation). These broad qualities have been shown to be stable in both mothers and fathers across the first 2 yearswith observations in natural care situations in early infancy and play situations in later infancy (Hall et al, 2015), which supports the validity of our measure of postnatal paternal caregiving. Therefore, the present study may be a valuable addition to the growing but still limited database of studies comparing fathers' and mothers' parenting behaviors toward their infant.…”

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“…For our first prenatal predictor of postnatal quality of caregiving, the prenatal quality of parental caregiving, we expected that prenatal quality of caregiving would predict postnatal quality in both fathers and mothers. This prediction is based on a study observing parents with their infants during the first 2 years after their infant's birth that found that all observed aspects of parental behavior (including those examined in the present study) showed stability for both mothers and fathers from the first week after birth onward (Hall et al, 2015). For the other two prenatal predictors in our study there is no relevant research evidence, but given the general similarity in the most important determinants of maternal and paternal caregiving we, hypothesized that the prediction of postnatal caregiving quality from the three prenatal predictors would not be different for mothers and fathers.…”

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“…Parental cooperation contributes to children's development beyond parental sensitivity (see Helmerhorst et al, 2014). Given that parental caregiving affects child development from birth onward (Feldman, Eidelman, & Rotenberg, 2004), and is relatively stable over time (Dallaire & Weinraub, 2005;Else-Quest, Clark, & Tresch Owen, 2011;Hall et al, 2015), it is important to predict the quality of caregiving as early as possible, potentially already during pregnancy. Early detection of parents at risk for lowquality caregiving may open a window for timely interventions designed to strengthening parenting skills.…”

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“…stable (Dallaire & Weinraub, 2005;Else-Quest et al, 2011;Hall et al, 2015) and shows that quality of postnatal caregiving can be estimated in pregnancy and in both sexes. Mothers showed higher postnatal quality caregiving than fathers, but there was continuity in pre-to postnatal quality of caregiving in both mothers and fathers.…”

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Prenatal Predictors of Postnatal Quality of Caregiving Behavior in Mothers and Fathers

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Objective. The quality of parental caregiving has been shown to affect children's development from birth onward. Therefore, it is important to detect parents at risk for low-quality caregiving as early as possiblepreferably before birth. Design. Observations of expectant mothers' and fathers' behavior when exposed to infant crying were examined as predictors of the quality of caregiving toward their own infant 6 weeks postpartum. Eighty-eight expectant mothers and 57 of their male partners were tested during the third trimester of pregnancy. Parents were filmed individually while caring for a crying Simulator Infant for 15 min; the quality of their caregiving was rated on sensitivity and cooperation. Also, cognitive interference on a working memory task and the ability to regulate physical force when exposed to infant crying were assessed. When their baby was 6 weeks old, parents were filmed and rated for sensitivity and cooperation during a 15-min interaction with their own infant at home. Results. Prenatal quality of caregiving behavior toward a simulator infant predicted postnatal quality of caregiving toward the own infant in both mothers and fathers. Cognitive interference and the ability to regulate physical force did not predict postnatal quality of caregiving behavior. Conclusions. Expectant parents' quality of caregiving behavior toward a crying simulator infant predicted both mothers' and fathers' postnatal quality of caregiving behavior. Future research is needed to determine whether the simulator infant may be a useful screening instrument and training tool for parenting skills in at risk groups of parents-to-be.

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“…Responsiveness is typically conflated in the literature with (at least) sensitivity, sensitive responsiveness, and contingent responsivity. Parenting researchers since Holden and Miller have continued to investigate the stability of (maternal) responsiveness to infants across the first 3 years in sample sizes of 20–1,306 resulting in small to large effect size stabilities, r s = .04 to .80 (Behrens, Hart, & Parker, ; Behrens, Parker, & Kulkofsky, ; Bigelow et al, ; Biringen, Matheny, Bretherton, Renouf, & Sherman, ; Bornstein et al, ; Dallaire & Weinraub, ; Else‐Quest, Clark, & Owen, ; Hall et al, ; Haltigan et al, ; Knafo, Jaffee, Haltigan, Roisman, & Fraley, ; Kochanska & Aksan, ; Landry et al, ; Lohaus, Keller, Ball, Voelker, & Elben, ; Madigan, Plamondon, Browne, & Jenkins, ; Murray, Halligan, Goodyer, & Herbert, ; NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, ; Riksen‐Walraven, ; Vereijken, Riksen‐Walraven, & Kondo‐Ikemura, ).…”

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Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

Bornstein

Putnick

Hahn

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Infancy

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Consistency in the order of individuals in a group across substantial lengths of time—stability—is a central concept in developmental science for several reasons. Stability underscores the meaningfulness of individual differences in psychological phenomena; stability informs about the origins, nature, and overall developmental course of psychological phenomena; stability signals individual status and so affects the environment, experience, and development; stability has both theoretical and clinical implications for individual functioning; and stability helps to establish that a measure constitutes a consequential individual‐differences metric. In this three‐wave prospective longitudinal study (Ns = 40 infants and mothers), we examined stabilities of individual variation in multiple infant behaviors and maternal responses to them across infant ages 10, 14, and 21 months. Medium to large effect size stabilities in infant behaviors and maternal responses emerged, but both betray substantial amounts of unshared variance. Documenting the ontogenetic trajectories of infant behaviors and maternal responses helps to elucidate the nature and structure of early human development.

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Behavioral and neural measures of infant responsivity increase with maternal multisensory input in non‐irritable infants

Neel,

Jeanvoine,

Key

et al. 2023

Brain and Behavior

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IntroductionParents often use sensory stimulation during early‐life interactions with infants. These interactions, including gazing, rocking, or singing, scaffold child development. Previous studies have examined infant neural processing during highly controlled sensory stimulus presentation paradigms.ObjectiveIn this study, we investigated infant behavioral and neural responsiveness during a mother–child social interaction during which the mother provided infant stimulation with a progressive increase in the number of sensory modalities.MethodsWe prospectively collected and analyzed video‐coded behavioral interactions and electroencephalogram (EEG) frontal asymmetry (FAS) from infants (n = 60) at 2–4 months born at ≥ 34 weeks gestation. As the number of sensory modalities progressively increased during the interaction, infant behaviors of emotional connection in facial expressiveness, sensitivity to mother, and vocal communication increased significantly. Conversely, infant FAS for the entire cohort did not change significantly. However, when we accounted for infant irritability, both video‐coded behaviors and EEG FAS markers of infant responsiveness increased across the interaction in the non‐irritable infants. The non‐irritable infants (49%) demonstrated positive FAS, indicating readiness to engage with, rather than to withdraw from, multisensory but not unisensory interactions with their mothers.ResultsThese results suggest that multisensory input from mothers is associated with greater infant neural approach state and highlight the importance of infant behavioral state during neural measures of infant responsiveness.

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The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth

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Prenatal Predictors of Postnatal Quality of Caregiving Behavior in Mothers and Fathers

Prenatal Predictors of Postnatal Quality of Caregiving Behavior in Mothers and Fathers

Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

Behavioral and neural measures of infant responsivity increase with maternal multisensory input in non‐irritable infants

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