TY - JOUR
T1 - Infants' persistence and mothers' teaching as predictors of toddlers' cognitive development
AU - Banerjee, Poonam Nina
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The findings reported here are based on research conducted as part of the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through grant 90YF001.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - This study examined the relative contributions of infants' persistence and mothers' teaching at 6 and 14 months to infants' cognitive development at 14 months in a sample of 65 low-income mother-infant dyads. Infants' persistence was assessed from a videotaped persistence task at 6 months and from the Behavior Record Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, 2nd ed. (BSID II) at 14 months. Mothers' teaching was assessed from a videotaped teaching interaction at 6 and 14 months using the Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST) teaching scale. Cognitive development at 14 months was based on the Mental Scale, BSID II. Infants' persistence at both ages and mothers' teaching at 6 months each explained unique variance in infants' cognitive status at 14 months. Persistence appears to be a stable quality that can be measured early on, and both infants' early persistence and mothers' teaching are direct pathways to cognitive status at the start of the second year.
AB - This study examined the relative contributions of infants' persistence and mothers' teaching at 6 and 14 months to infants' cognitive development at 14 months in a sample of 65 low-income mother-infant dyads. Infants' persistence was assessed from a videotaped persistence task at 6 months and from the Behavior Record Scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, 2nd ed. (BSID II) at 14 months. Mothers' teaching was assessed from a videotaped teaching interaction at 6 and 14 months using the Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST) teaching scale. Cognitive development at 14 months was based on the Mental Scale, BSID II. Infants' persistence at both ages and mothers' teaching at 6 months each explained unique variance in infants' cognitive status at 14 months. Persistence appears to be a stable quality that can be measured early on, and both infants' early persistence and mothers' teaching are direct pathways to cognitive status at the start of the second year.
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Infancy
KW - Maternal responsivity
KW - Maternal sensitivity
KW - Mothers' teaching
KW - Persistence
KW - Temperament
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.12.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 17683756
AN - SCOPUS:34547527360
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 30
SP - 479
EP - 491
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 3
ER -