Mother-Child Relations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Test of Kangaroo Care on Preterm Infant Breastfeeding. 
  • A discordant monozygotic twin design shows blunted cortisol reactivity among bullied children. 
  • A randomized clinical trial of an intervention to promote resilience in young children of HIV-positive mothers in South Africa. 
  • Adjustment of children and their mothers with breast cancer. 
  • Affective exchanges between young autistic children and their mothers. 
  • African American mothers' responses to hospitalization of an infant with serious health problems. 
  • 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. 
  • Association of Maternal and Infant Salivary Testosterone and Cortisol and Infant Gender With Mother-Infant Interaction in Very-Low-Birthweight Infants. 
  • Associations Between Hormonal Biomarkers and Cognitive, Motor, and Language Developmental Status in Very Low Birth Weight 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. 
  • Bad thoughts: Brazilian women's responses to mothering while experiencing postnatal depression. 
  • Behavior and psychological functioning of young children of HIV-positive mothers in South Africa. 
  • 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. 
  • Childhood Maltreatment and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review. 
  • Children of battered women: worries about their mothers. 
  • Clinically abusive relationships in an unselected birth cohort: men's and women's participation and developmental antecedents. 
  • 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. 
  • Correlates of depressive symptoms in mothers of preterm infants. 
  • Correlates of mother-premature infant interactions. 
  • 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. 
  • Developmental problems and interactions between mothers and prematurely born children. 
  • 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. 
  • Dissecting daily distress in mothers of children with ADHD: an electronic diary study. 
  • Distress and growth outcomes in mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Effects of maternal depressive symptoms and infant gender on the interactions between mothers and their medically at-risk infants. 
  • Effects of perinatal testosterone on infant health, mother-infant interactions, and infant development. 
  • Emotional reactivity and parenting sensitivity interact to predict cortisol output in toddlers. 
  • Emotional responses of mothers of late-preterm and term infants. 
  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors. 
  • Exploring modifiable risk factors for wheezing in African American premature infants. 
  • Feeding and non-feeding interactions of mothers and prematures. 
  • 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 
  • Gender and racial differences in the looking and talking behaviors of mothers and their 3-year-old prematurely born children. 
  • Gender, ethnicity, and the interactions of prematurely born children and their mothers. 
  • HOME inventory and NCATS: relation to mother and child behaviors during naturalistic observations. Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment. Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale. 
  • Harsh parenting in relation to child emotion regulation and aggression. 
  • High-risk maternal and neonatal transport: psychosocial implications for practice. 
  • Illicit drug use among women with children in the United States: 2002-2003. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Interactive behaviors of American Indian mothers and their premature infants. 
  • Interactive behaviors of ethnic minority mothers and their premature infants. 
  • Intergenerational continuity in child maltreatment: mediating mechanisms and implications for prevention. 
  • Life course theory as a framework to examine becoming a mother of a medically fragile preterm infant. 
  • Low-income mothers as "othermothers" to their romantic partners' children: women's coparenting in multiple partner fertility relationships. 
  • Maternal Concern for Child Undereating. 
  • Maternal Psychological Distress and Mother-Infant Relationship: Multiple-Birth Versus Singleton Preterm Infants. 
  • Maternal concerns about parenting prematurely born children. 
  • 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 intimate partner violence exposure, child cortisol reactivity and child asthma. 
  • Maternal navigational strategies: examining mother-daughter dyads in adolescent families of color. 
  • Maternal presence, childrearing practices, and children's response to an injection. 
  • Maternal reactions to problem behaviors and ordinal position of child. 
  • Maternal role attainment with medically fragile infants: Part 2. relationship to the quality of parenting. 
  • Maternal satisfaction with administering infant interventions in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Maternal socialization goals, parenting styles, and social-emotional adjustment among Chinese and European American young adults: testing a mediation model. 
  • Maternally administered interventions for preterm infants in the NICU: effects on maternal psychological distress and mother-infant relationship. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Mother-child role confusion, child adjustment problems, and the moderating roles of child temperament and sex. 
  • Mother-infant interactions of medically fragile infants and non-chronically ill premature infants. 
  • Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis. 
  • Mothers' stories about their experiences in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • NURTURE: development and pilot testing of a novel parenting intervention for mothers with histories of an eating disorder. 
  • 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. 
  • Perceptions of stress, worry, and support in Black and White mothers of hospitalized, medically fragile infants. 
  • 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. 
  • Positive parenting and children's prosocial behavior in eight countries. 
  • Posttraumatic stress symptoms in mothers of premature infants. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Socialization mediators of the relation between socioeconomic status and child conduct problems. 
  • The acquisition of abstract words by young infants. 
  • The caregiving environments provided to children by depressed mothers with or without an antisocial history. 
  • The dilemmas of childhood HIV infection. 
  • The early social environment of premature and fullterm infants. 
  • 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 infant separates himself from his mother. 
  • The infant's free entry into a new environment. 
  • The influence of maternal and child characteristics and paternal support on interactions of mothers and their medically fragile infants. 
  • The relationship between planned and reported home infant sleep locations among mothers of late preterm and term infants. 
  • The relationship between responsive caregiving and child outcomes: evidence from direct observations of mother-child dyads in Pakistan. 
  • The role of sociodemographic factors in maternal psychological distress and mother-preterm infant interactions. 
  • The usefulness of an assessment of emotional involvement of HIV-positive mothers and their infants. 
  • Toward greater understanding of depression in deaf individuals. 
  • Transnational Motherhood: Health of Hispanic Mothers in the United States Who Are Separated From Children. 
  • Unsafe caregiving practices experienced by 3-year-old children born prematurely. 
  • 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. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, WLF Bass Connections Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Putallaz, Martha, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience