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Sevil Günaydin; Hüsniye Dinç Kaya; Tülay Yilmaz; Rukiye Duman; Seray Gür – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study aims to explore the experiences of breastfeeding mothers during pregnancy in tandem breastfeeding. This research is a qualitative study conducted using the phenomenological research design. Data saturation was achieved after 11 participants were interviewed. The content analysis approach was used to analyze the data. Interview…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Mothers, Pregnancy
Ban, Midori; Takahashi, Hideyuki – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study explored child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child's minds. We administered the Mind Perception Questionnaire to 216 women with children aged between 0 and 24 months and 221 working women without children. Participants responded with mind perceptions for various entities, including for their children (a 0--2-year-old…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Infants, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
Eti, Inanç – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate the predictive effects of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about emotions on the social skills and problem behaviours of preschoolers. The study involved 227 mothers of 3-6-year-old preschool children (M[subscript age] = 63 months). Two hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to determine to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Beliefs, Parent Attitudes
Kenyhercz, Flóra; Nagy, Beáta Erika – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Preterm birth consequences may lead to developmental deficits, psychiatric disorders and may also cause parental mental health problems. Our aim was to describe quality of life and internalizing-externalizing behaviours of preterm children at 2 years regarding parental mental health. 112 mothers of preterm children provided the following…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Mental Health, Premature Infants, Behavior Problems
Sun, Anqi; Peng, Weiwei; Ansari, Arya; Li, Xile; Xu, Yue; Yan, Ni – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The current study addressed whether mothers' explicitly expressed and implicitly held attitudes towards infant crying (n = 71) differ with each other and how these two types of attitudes relate to mothers' depressive symptoms during the transition to parenthood. Neither mothers' explicit nor implicit attitudes towards infant crying predicted…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Crying, Parent Attitudes
Veiga, Guida; O'Connor, Rachel; Neto, Carlos; Rieffe, Carolien – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Learning to regulate aggressive impulses is a significant developmental milestone for preschoolers. To date, there is no consensus about whether rough-and-tumble play (RTP) is positively or negatively related to the regulation of aggression. This study examined the relation of RTP with children's levels of emotion regulation and aggression. RTP of…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Self Control, Aggression
Celik, Melike Yavas – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study aims to determine the changing routines of nurses in maternal role due to COVID-19 outbreak. This is qualitative interview research and is based on the descriptions of the interviews with the participants. Interviews were recorded on the phone with nurses. It was semi-structured and used a snowball sample, and in-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Nurses, Mothers, Parent Role, COVID-19
Leitgel-Gille, Marluce; Le Normand, Marie-Thérèse; Caron, Caroline; Clouard, Chantal; Gosme, Christelle; Golse, Bernard; Ouss, Lisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Maternal input addressed to children after an early hospitalization (EH) was longitudinally compared to maternal input directed to typically developing children (TD), at 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months of age. The data were analyzed with the CHILDES tools for (a) word-tokens (b) word-types (c) Mean Length of Utterances (MLU) and (d) questions in which…
Descriptors: Mothers, Hospitalized Children, Parent Attitudes, Infants
Mahomed, Razeenah; Alexander, Daleen; Maree, Jacobus – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This article reports on the perceptions of single parents on their parenting styles in raising their children living with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD). Purposive sampling was used to collect the sample group. The study comprised 10 female participants of white, Indian, and coloured descent with a mean age of 35.6 years. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, One Parent Family, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing
Aghebati, Asma; Joekar, Sanaz; Hakim Shoshtari, Mitra; Gharraee, Banafsheh; Maghami Sharif, Zahra – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study considered the effect of Triple P as a behavioural family intervention on mothers of children with separation anxiety disorder. Three hundred families with separation anxious children participated in this research which divided into intervention and control groups. The measuring tools were Parenting Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Mothers, Separation Anxiety
Vuorinen, Tuula – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This article aims to explore parents' perspectives on, and experiences of, home and preschool collaboration in a Swedish context. The research question is: How do parents perceive the process of building good relationships with preschool practitioners? The data consist of interviews with 10 parents with one or more children attending preschool.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Mousavi, Parisa Sadat Seyed; Mazaheri, Mohammad Ali; Aslafi, Togha; khalighi, Fatima; Poorganji, Mohsen – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study aimed to assess and compare the attachment issues including mothers' perception of desirable and undesirable characteristics, mothers' attributions to child behavior in attachment situations, and Mothers' Expectations regarding 'Maternal Responsiveness' among Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan mothers. To do so, 30 mothers were selected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attachment Behavior, Parent Attitudes, Mothers
Ionio, Chiara; Mascheroni, Eleonora; Banfi, Annamaria; Olivari, Maria Giulia; Colombo, Caterina; Confalonieri, Emanuela; Lista, Gianluca – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study aims to evaluate the influence of fathers' negative feelings, parenting stress and post-traumatic symptomatology experienced after the premature birth of their infant on mother-child interaction and on infant's development in the perinatal period. Forty-five fathers and 45 mothers of preterm infants (GA = 30.25 ± 2.95; birth weight =…
Descriptors: Fathers, Negative Attitudes, Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Kian, Farnaz; Etemadi, Ozra; Bahrami, Fatemeh – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The present study investigates parenting styles in Iranian mothers with avoidant attachment style. The sample of this study were 15 mothers of children aged 1-6 living in Hamedan city, Iran with avoidant attachment style. The sample was first screened using the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS). Mothers were interviewed using s semi-structured…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes
Miller, Elizabeth A.; Azar, Sandra T. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Parental supervision is key to child injury prevention. Mothers' beliefs about supervision and injuries are associated with increased monitoring and reduced injury risk, but less is known about how fathers' injury prevention beliefs may be associated with children's injuries. This study examined associations between fathers' injury prevention…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Responsibility, Parenting Styles, Mothers