Toddler language and play in the second year: stability, covariation and influences of parenting

Bornstein, Marc H.; Vibbert, Martha; Tal, Joseph; O'Donnell, Kim

doi:10.1177/014272379201203607

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“…Evidence connects children's play with later verbal and cognitive skills (Orr & Geva, ; Rakoczy, ). With respect to past research on the stability of infant spontaneous, elicited, relational, and pretend play across the first 3 years, we found sample sizes of 19–202 resulting in small to large effect size stabilities, r s = .01 to .76 (Bornstein, Vibbert, Tal, & O'Donnell, ; Else‐Quest, Clark, & Tresch Owen, ; Gaertner et al, ; Power, Chapieski, & McGrath, ).…”

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Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

Bornstein

Putnick

Hahn

et al. 2020

Infancy

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Consistency in the order of individuals in a group across substantial lengths of time—stability—is a central concept in developmental science for several reasons. Stability underscores the meaningfulness of individual differences in psychological phenomena; stability informs about the origins, nature, and overall developmental course of psychological phenomena; stability signals individual status and so affects the environment, experience, and development; stability has both theoretical and clinical implications for individual functioning; and stability helps to establish that a measure constitutes a consequential individual‐differences metric. In this three‐wave prospective longitudinal study (Ns = 40 infants and mothers), we examined stabilities of individual variation in multiple infant behaviors and maternal responses to them across infant ages 10, 14, and 21 months. Medium to large effect size stabilities in infant behaviors and maternal responses emerged, but both betray substantial amounts of unshared variance. Documenting the ontogenetic trajectories of infant behaviors and maternal responses helps to elucidate the nature and structure of early human development.

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Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

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Hahn

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Infancy

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“…On this account, a mother's participation in pretense play might be expected to raise the level of expression of symbolic sophistication in her child's play, to make it richer or more diverse, and to sustain it. Several investigations have supported this general hypothesis (e.g., Beizer & Howes, 1992;Belsky, Goode, & Most, 1980;Bornstein, Vibbert, Tal, & O'Donnell, 1992;Fiese, 1990;O'Connell & Bretherton, 1984;Slade, 1987a;. We therefore expected mothers' symbolic play to exercise a direct infiuence over child symbolic play during joint play.…”

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Solitary and Collaborative Pretense Play in Early Childhood: Sources of Individual Variation in the Development of Representational Competence

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Child Development

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This study evaluates sources of individual variation in child pretense play as an expression of emerging mental representation. Family sociodemographic characteristics, maternal personological characteristics, and maternal affective and cognitive play behaviors, as well as children's gender, language competence, and play, were examined simultaneously. Naturalistic child solitary play and child collaborative play with mother were videorecorded in 141 20-month-olds. Child solitary play, child-initiated and mother-initiated collaborative play with mother, and maternal demonstrations and solicitations of play were then coded into nonsymbolic and symbolic acts. Zero-order relations obtained between child play and, respectively, child gender and language, family SES, and maternal verbal intelligence, personality, physical affection, and play demonstrations and solicitations. Structural equation modeling supported the following unique predictive relations: Child language and mothers' symbolic play positively influenced child collaborative play, and child gender and mothers' verbal intelligence predicted child solitary play. Child gender and mothers' verbal intelligence and physical affection influenced mothers' play and so influenced child collaborative play indirectly. The cognitive advantages of child play and maternal influences on child play are placed in an adaptive parenting framework.

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“…When the social context is relatively barren, as in the pilot study, 2-to 3-year-old children are not inclined to engage in symbolic play at all, and indeed this is a point that has been made in various ways by many researchers (e.g. Slade, 1987;Bornstein, Vibbert, Tal & O'Donnel, 1992). But there are two more profound ways in which symbolic play is social, and these are not nearly as obvious.…”

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Social and object support for early symbolic play

Striano

Tomasello

Rochat

2001

Developmental Science

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In this study we sought to determine the degree to which 2- to 3-year-old children use objects symbolically in the relative absence of adult symbolic actions or linguistic descriptions, and how the nature of objects influences symbolic play. Results revealed a dramatic increase in children’s creative symbolic productions between 2 and 3 years of age, with the tendency to produce symbolic actions influenced to an equal degree by adult symbolic action models and verbal directions. Children of all ages were heavily influenced by the nature of the object to be used as a symbol, with the youngest children using only replica objects as symbols. In a second study, we examined children’s looks to an adult as they engaged in different kinds of activities with objects. The main finding was that children looked to the adult immediately after performing a symbolic action more often than if they performed an instrumental action. We argue for the essentially social nature of symbolic play, both in terms of how children learn to use objects as symbols and in terms of the reasons they do so

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Toddler language and play in the second year: stability, covariation and influences of parenting

Cited by 46 publications

References 55 publications

Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

Stabilities of infant behaviors and maternal responses to them

Solitary and Collaborative Pretense Play in Early Childhood: Sources of Individual Variation in the Development of Representational Competence

Social and object support for early symbolic play

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