Mother-Child Relations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "They have opened our mouths": increasing women's skills and motivation for sexual communication with young people in rural South Africa. 
  • A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office. 
  • A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English. 
  • A developmental origins perspective on the emergence of violent behavior in males with prenatal substance exposure. 
  • A discordant monozygotic twin design shows blunted cortisol reactivity among bullied children. 
  • A parent-based intervention to reduce sexual risk behavior in early adolescence: building alliances between physicians, social workers, and parents. 
  • A process model of attachment-friend linkages: hostile attribution biases, language ability, and mother-child affective mutuality as intervening mechanisms. 
  • A tale of two methods: comparing regression and instrumental variables estimates of the effects of preschool child care type on the subsequent externalizing behavior of children in low-income families. 
  • Affective exchanges between young autistic children and their mothers. 
  • African American mothers' responses to hospitalization of an infant with serious health problems. 
  • An Observational Study on Early Dyadic Interactive Behaviors of Mothers With Early-Preterm, Late-Preterm, and Full-Term Infants in Malawi. 
  • An automated "well-baby" questionnaire. 
  • An examination of differences between nonclinic and behavior-problem clinic-referred children and their mothers. 
  • An examination of predictors of maternal perceptions of maladjustment in clinic-referred children. 
  • An intervention to decrease adolescent indoor tanning: a multi-method pilot study. 
  • Antecedents and behavior-problem outcomes of parental monitoring and psychological control in early adolescence. 
  • Approach and exploration of a novel alternative by 12-month-old infants. 
  • Attitudes justifying domestic violence predict endorsement of corporal punishment and physical and psychological aggression towards children: a study in 25 low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Attitudes toward participation in a pregnancy and child cohort study. 
  • Behavior modification in the treatment of rumination. 
  • Benefit Finding in Maternal Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Methods Approach. 
  • Birthing and Parenting a Premature Infant in a Cultural Context. 
  • Can typical US home visits affect infant attachment? Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of Healthy Families Durham. 
  • Chaos, danger, and maternal parenting in families: Links with adolescent adjustment in low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Child and parent predictors of perceptions of parent--child relationship quality. 
  • Children of battered women: worries about their mothers. 
  • Children of depressed mothers 1 year after remission of maternal depression: findings from the STAR*D-Child study. 
  • Children of depressed mothers 1 year after the initiation of maternal treatment: findings from the STAR*D-Child Study. 
  • Children's reasoning with peers and parents about moral dilemmas. 
  • Children's speech revisions for a familiar and an unfamiliar adult. 
  • Clinically abusive relationships in an unselected birth cohort: men's and women's participation and developmental antecedents. 
  • Cohort Profile: Perinatal depression and child socioemotional development ; the Bachpan cohort study from rural Pakistan. 
  • Conscientiousness in life course context: a commentary. 
  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries. 
  • Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers 
  • DNA methylation of NR3c1 in infancy: Associations between maternal caregiving and infant sex. 
  • Dental attendance among low-income women and their children following a brief motivational counseling intervention: A community randomized trial. 
  • Developmental foundations of physiological dynamics among mother-infant dyads: The role of newborn neurobehavior. 
  • Developmental outcome of very low birth weight infants as a function of biological risk and psychosocial risk. 
  • Developmental outcomes of infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: comparison with other medically fragile infants. 
  • Diet quality of overweight and obese mothers and their preschool children. 
  • Differential risks of covarying and pure components in mother and teacher reports of externalizing and internalizing behavior across ages 5 to 14. 
  • Direct social support for young high risk children: relations with behavioral and emotional outcomes across time. 
  • Do adolescent offspring of women with PTSD experience higher levels of chronic and episodic stress? 
  • Do child abuse and maternal care interact to predict military sexual trauma? 
  • Does maternal warmth moderate the effects of birth weight on twins' attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and low IQ? 
  • Early Adolescents' Unique Perspectives of Maternal and Paternal Rejection: Examining Their Across-Dyad Generalizability and Relations with Adjustment 1 Year Later. 
  • Early Childhood Family Structure and Mother-Child Interactions: Variation by Race and Ethnicity 
  • Early adolescent romantic relationships and maternal approval among inner city Latino families. 
  • Early intervention program for adolescent mothers and their infants. 
  • Early maternal separation and the trajectory of borderline personality disorder symptoms. 
  • Effect of Maternal Body Mass Index on Infant Breastfeeding Behaviors and Exclusive Direct Breastfeeding. 
  • Effect of parental mental health status on adolescents' dietary behaviors. 
  • Effectiveness of a home based early intervention program with infants of adolescent mothers. 
  • Effectiveness of a peer-delivered, psychosocial intervention on maternal depression and child development at 3 years postnatal: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan. 
  • Emotional responses of mothers of late-preterm and term infants. 
  • Epigenetic Programming by Maternal Behavior in the Human Infant. 
  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors. 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms. 
  • Frontal brain electrical activity in infants of depressed and nondepressed mothers: relation to variations in infant behavior. 
  • Frontal lobe activity and affective behavior of infants of mothers with depressive symptoms. 
  • GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: INTRODUCTION 
  • Harsh Parenting in Relation to Child Emotion Regulation and Aggression 
  • Impact of maternal breast cancer on school-aged children in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Improving parenting in families referred for child maltreatment: a randomized controlled trial examining effects of Project Support. 
  • In-Home Passive Sensor Data Collection and Its Implications for Social Media Research: Perspectives of Community Women in Rural South Africa. 
  • Infant physiological response to the still-face paradigm: contributions of maternal sensitivity and infants' early regulatory behavior. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers exhibit atypical frontal electrical brain activity during interactions with mother and with a familiar, nondepressed adult. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers show "depressed" behavior even with nondepressed adults. 
  • Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers' infant-directed speech. 
  • Intergenerational Continuity in Child Maltreatment: Explicating Underlying Mechanisms. 
  • Intergenerational continuity in child maltreatment: mediating mechanisms and implications for prevention. 
  • Joint attention and early language. 
  • Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts. 
  • Machine learning approach to measurement of criticism: The core dimension of expressed emotion. 
  • Maternal Concern for Child Undereating. 
  • Maternal Psychological Distress and Mother-Infant Relationship: Multiple-Birth Versus Singleton Preterm Infants. 
  • Maternal depressive symptoms and child social preference during the early school years: mediation by maternal warmth and child emotion regulation. 
  • Maternal depressive symptoms as a predictor of alcohol use onset and heavy episodic drinking in youths. 
  • Maternal influence on adolescent self-esteem, ethnic pride and intentions to engage in risk behavior in Latino youth. 
  • Maternal navigational strategies: examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color. 
  • Maternal perceptions of alcohol use by adolescents who drink alcohol. 
  • Maternal presence, childrearing practices, and children's response to an injection 
  • Maternal reactions to problem behaviors and ordinal position of child. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Mediators of the Relation Between Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Internalizing and Disruptive Behavior Disorders 
  • Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 
  • Misalignment of sexual and reproductive health priorities among older Latino adolescents and their mothers. 
  • Mother-child conversational interactions as events unfold: linkages to subsequent remembering. 
  • Mother-child interaction quality as a partial mediator of the roles of maternal depressive symptomatology and socioeconomic status in the development of child behavior problems. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis. 
  • NURTURE: development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder. 
  • Parent behavioral training: an analysis of the relationship among multiple outcome measures. 
  • Parent-adolescent communication about sexual intercourse: an analysis of maternal reluctance to communicate. 
  • Parent-child connectedness and behavioral and emotional health among adolescents. 
  • Patterns of change in early childhood aggressive-disruptive behavior: gender differences in predictions from early coercive and affectionate mother-child interactions. 
  • Perinatal factors, parenting behavior, and reactive aggression: does cortisol reactivity mediate this developmental risk process? 
  • Phonological theory informs the analysis of intonational exaggeration in Japanese infant-directed speech. 
  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: cultural normativeness as a moderator. 
  • Physical maltreatment victim to antisocial child: evidence of an environmentally mediated process. 
  • Polydrug-using adolescent mothers and their infants receiving early intervention. 
  • Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. 
  • Postpartum Depression: What Do Pediatricians Need to Know? 
  • Predicting boys' social acceptance and aggression: the role of mother-child interactions and boys' beliefs about peers. 
  • Predicting the developmental course of mother-reported monitoring across childhood and adolescence from early proactive parenting, child temperament, and parents' worries. 
  • Preschool outcomes of children of depressed mothers: role of maternal behavior, contextual risk, and children's brain activity. 
  • Processing of infant-directed speech by adults. 
  • Psychological functioning among mothers of children with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a longitudinal study. 
  • Psychopathology and economic status in mother-only and mother-father families. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Injury Prevention Behaviors Among Caregivers of Infants. 
  • Randomized controlled trial of a paraprofessional-delivered in-home intervention for young reservation-based American Indian mothers. 
  • Reflections on stillness: mothers' reactions to the still-face situation. 
  • Relationship of Maternal Psychological Distress Classes to Later Mother-Infant Interaction, Home Environment, and Infant Development in Preterm Infants. 
  • Relationships between maternal and adolescent weight-related behaviors and concerns: the role of perception. 
  • Relative impact of maternal depression and associated risk factors on offspring psychopathology. 
  • Remissions in maternal depression and child psychopathology: a STAR*D-child report. 
  • Risk reconsidered: targets of violence in the social networks of people with serious psychiatric disorders. 
  • Role of child and maternal processes in the psychological adjustment of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Safe, stable, nurturing relationships break the intergenerational cycle of abuse: a prospective nationally representative cohort of children in the United Kingdom. 
  • Segmental distributions and consonant-vowel association patterns in Japanese infant- and adult-directed speech. 
  • Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. 
  • Shaping emotion regulation: attunement, symptomatology, and stress recovery within mother-infant dyads. 
  • Single-subject design and interaction analysis in the behavioral treatment of a child with a feeding problem. 
  • Smoke-Free Home Rules and Association with Child Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Mother-Child Dyad Relationships. 
  • Socialization mediators of the relation between socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. 
  • The Linking Lives health education program: a randomized clinical trial of a parent-based tobacco use prevention program for african american and latino youths. 
  • The National Lesbian Family Study:2. Interviews with Mothers of Toddlers 
  • The National Lesbian Family Study:3. Interviews with mothers of five-year-olds 
  • The acquisition of abstract words by young infants. 
  • The caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial history. 
  • The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English. 
  • The effectiveness of the peer delivered Thinking Healthy Plus (THPP+) Programme for maternal depression and child socio-emotional development in Pakistan: study protocol for a three-year cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • The healthy families act: vital support for families of people with developmental disabilities. 
  • The infant separates himself from his mother. 
  • The infant's free entry into a new environment. 
  • The influence of maternal child-rearing attitudes and teaching behaviors on preschoolers' delay of gratification. 
  • The relation between mothers' hostile attribution tendencies and children's externalizing behavior problems: the mediating role of mothers' harsh discipline practices. 
  • The relationship between planned and reported home infant sleep locations among mothers of late preterm and term infants. 
  • The role of sociodemographic factors in maternal psychological distress and mother-preterm infant interactions. 
  • Toward greater understanding of depression in deaf individuals. 
  • Transnational Motherhood: Health of Hispanic Mothers in the United States Who Are Separated From Children. 
  • Treatment of the adopted adolescent: involvement of the biologic mother. 
  • Trichotillomania--a review. 
  • Use of videotaped interactions during pediatric well-child care: impact at 33 months on parenting and on child development. 
  • Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower. 
  • Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer. 
  • Weight-related attitudes and behaviors of adolescent boys and girls who are encouraged to diet by their mothers. 
  • Young children's conversations with their mothers and fathers: differences in breakdown and repair. 
  • Young children's responses to neutral and specific contingent queries. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Putallaz, Martha, Professor Emerita of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience