Development of infants and toddlers in ethnoracial families

Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Mann, Tammy L.; Cabrera, Natasha; Sarche, Michelle; Qin, Desiree B.

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“…These beliefs, which are termed parental ethnotheories , lay the foundations to a child's culturally constructed environment for development of temperament, learning, and health (Harkness et al., ). The importance of culture on understanding infant caregiving, parenting practices in infant mental health interventive programs, or child development cannot be overstated (Fitzgerald, Mann, Cabrera, Sarche, & Qin, ; Spicer ). Despite this, almost 93% of the published literature on infancy has emerged only from the North America, Europe, and Australia (Tomlinson, Bornstein, Marlow, & Swartz, ; Tomlinson & Swartz, ).…”

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Anxiety and Depression During Pregnancy and Temperament in Early Infancy: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic, Asian, Prospective Birth Cohort Study

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Broekman

Qiu

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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Maternal antenatal mood is associated with negative infant temperament. This link has not been substantiated in Asian populations. We evaluated the association between antenatal maternal mood and infant temperament among Asian mother-infant pairs. Antenatal maternal depression and anxiety were assessed using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (J. Cox, J. Holden, & R. Sagovsky, 1987) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (C. Spielberger, R. Gorsuch, R. Lushene, P. Vagg, & G. Jacobs, 1983), respectively, at 26 weeks of pregnancy and 3 months' postnatally. Infant temperament was evaluated with the Early Infant Temperament Questionnaire (B. Medoff-Cooper, W.B. Carey, & S.C. McDevitt, 1993) at 3 months. Factor analysis was performed to extract culturally relevant categories of temperamental traits. Linear regression was performed to examine the influences of antenatal maternal mood on the factor-model-derived infant temperament. Of the 609 mothers, 11% met risk criteria for depression, 17% for state-anxiety, and 19% for trait-anxiety during pregnancy. Factor analysis yielded three infant temperament factors: Emotionality and Attentional Regulation, Sensory Reactivity, and Regularity and Motor Expression, Cronbach's αs = 0.613, 0.712, and 0.752, respectively. Maternal antenatal state-anxiety, p < .001, and trait anxiety, p = .005, were associated with negative emotionality and poor attentional regulation, especially among Chinese, whereas depression was not, p = .090. There was an association between maternal antenatal anxiety and negative infant temperamental traits in this Asian sample.

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Anxiety and Depression During Pregnancy and Temperament in Early Infancy: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic, Asian, Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Chong

Broekman

Qiu

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…Existing data, though limited, indicate that the American Indian population faces significant disparities in health, healthcare, education, social, and economic indicators (Sarche & Whitesell, 2012;Spicer et al, 2012). Nevertheless, to date, little attention has been paid to the impact of these various risk factors on the socioemotional well-being of young American Indian children (Fitzgerald, 2009;McShane, 1988). This study sought to replicate and build on the earlier work of Sarche et al (2009) who provided first-ever data relating the socioemotional development of American Indian toddlers to the immediate context of their mothers' lives.…”

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“…They also are less likely to receive needed healthcare (Sarche & Whitesell, ; Spicer et al., ). Nevertheless, to date, little attention has been paid to the impact of these various risk factors on the social and emotional well‐being of young American Indian children (Fitzgerald, Mann, Cabrera, Sarche, & Qin, ; McShane, ).…”

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Toddler Socioemotional Behavior in a Northern Plains Indian Tribe: Associations With Maternal Psychosocial Well-Being

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Infant Ment. Health J.

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M.C. Sarche, C.D. Croy, C. Big Crow, C. Mitchell, and P. Spicer (2009) provided first-ever information relating the socioemotional development of American Indian toddlers to the immediate context of their mothers' lives. The current study sought to replicate and build on their earlier work by examining the impact of additional maternal risk factors, identified in previous research with non-American Indian populations, on the development of American Indian toddlers: maternal depression, negative social influences, and mother's feelings of isolation. At 27 months, American Indian mothers (N = 110) completed the Parent Demographic Questionnaire, which measured maternal psychosocial characteristics (e.g., depressed affect, social support, drug and alcohol use, isolation) and demographics. Mothers also completed the Infant-Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (A.S. Carter & M.J. Briggs-Gowan, 2006) and the Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction subscale of the Parenting Stress Index (R.R. Abidin, 1995, 1997). Some results replicated the original study, but others did not. Reports of a dysfunctional mother-child relationship related to externalizing and internalizing problems, replicating the earlier study. This study also found associations between a dysfunctional mother-child relationship and socioemotional competence as well as dysregulation. The previous finding of a relationship between American Indian identity and socioemotional competence was supported. Adding the effects of maternal depressed affect and isolation significantly increased prediction of toddler behavior problems.

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“…Another factor that can influence parental involvement with infants and very young children is the cultural context into which they are born (Shwalb et al, 2013 ). In some cases, parental cultural context is shared (i.e., both parents share the same ethnicity) but in other cases, parents have unique ethnic beliefs and traditions that they blend into a multicultural context for their children (Fitzgerald et al, 2009 , 2010 ). Mendonca et al, (this issue, 2021 ) report findings from their studies of parents from low-income households in Brazil.…”

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Fathers and Families: Risk and Resilience. An Introduction

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The articles in this special issue are informed by the historic changes in the twentieth century (i.e., decreasing family size, changing family roles, and youth demonstrating more independent behaviors) that propelled intensive study of fathers’ impacts on child development. The papers are conceptualized within a developmental systems framework and focused on a father’s presence rather than on his absence in the family, going beyond the study of merely father involvement. Papers reflect longitudinal and cross-sectional methods and examine issues related to paternal mental health, parenting behavior, cultural context, and children’s physical and mental health.

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Development of infants and toddlers in ethnoracial families

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Anxiety and Depression During Pregnancy and Temperament in Early Infancy: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic, Asian, Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Anxiety and Depression During Pregnancy and Temperament in Early Infancy: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic, Asian, Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Toddler Socioemotional Behavior in a Northern Plains Indian Tribe: Associations With Maternal Psychosocial Well-Being

Fathers and Families: Risk and Resilience. An Introduction

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