Effectiveness of a longitudinal psychosocial intervention to strengthen mother–child interactions: The role of biological and contextual moderators

Alves, Cláudia Regina Lindgren; Gaspardo, Cláudia Maria; Altafim, Elisa Rachel Pisani; Linhares, Maria Beatriz Martins

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106333

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“…All this evidence reinforces the idea that the type of parenting exercised by the main caregivers may promote language development in typically developing children [ 25 , 27 ] and children with some type of developmental delay [ 7 , 58 , 59 ]. This is further reinforced by studies that have shown improvements in children’s language development because of parenting-focused interventions [ 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 ].…”

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Relations between Positive Parenting Behavior during Play and Child Language Development at Early Ages

et al. 2023

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Parental behavior in interactions with children has been related to child language development. Our study contributes to the literature about relations between the characteristics of parent–child interactions during play and a child’s language development in typically developing children at early ages, with data from mothers and fathers from the same families in Spain. Our aim was to analyze the relation between positive parenting behaviors assessed with the Spanish version of the Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO) and child language development assessed with the Bayley-III scales. We controlled for some sociodemographic variables. The participants were 90 children aged 15–31 months and their mothers and fathers. Bivariate analysis showed significant positive relations between mothers’ responsive, encouraging and teaching behaviors and a child’s language scores. Relations were found between fathers’ encouraging and teaching behaviors and a child’s language. Regression models indicate that maternal and paternal encouraging behaviors predicted 18% of the variability in the child’s receptive language, and maternal responsive and teaching behaviors predicted 16% of the variability in the child’s expressive language and total language scores. The study provides new data that support the relevance of positive parental behaviors to improve a child’s linguistic development.

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