Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – Département de psychologie - Travaux et publications by Author "Bernier, Annie"
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Actigraphy data in pediatric research : the role of sleep diaries
Actigraphy and sleep diary
Tétreault, Émilie; Bélanger, Marie-Ève; Bernier, Annie; Carrier, Julie (Elsevier, 2018-01)Background. When assessing children's sleep using actigraphy, researchers usually rely on a sleep diary completed by a parent as an aid in scoring actigraphic data. However, parental nonadherence in completing the sleep diary may significantly reduce ... -
Associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep throughout early childhood
Tétreault, Émilie; Bouvette‐Turcot, Andrée‐Anne; Bernier, Annie; Bailey, Heidi N. (2017-09-02)Despite strong theoretical reasons to believe that the quality of parent-infant interactions should influence child sleep, the empirical evidence for links between maternal behavior and children’s sleep is equivocal. Notably, it is unclear at which ... -
Associations between sleep consolidation in infancy and peer relationships in middle childhood
Sleep and peer relationships
Larose-Grégoire, Élodie; Bernier, Annie; Dirks, Melanie; Perrier, Rachel (Wiley, 2017-11-21)Sleep plays an important role in many aspects of children’s development. Research on children’s sleep and their peer relationships has begun to emerge in the last years. However, these studies are mostly cross-sectional. The current study aimed to ... -
Attachment security and developmental patterns of growth in executive functioning during early elementary school
Growth in executive functionning
Matte‐Gagné, Célia; Bernier, Annie; Sirois, Marie-Soleil; Lalonde, Gabrielle; Hertz, Sarah (Wiley, 2017-05)Despite the extensive research demonstrating the importance of child executive functioning (EF) for school adjustment, little longitudinal work has formally examined developmental change in EF during the early school years. Based on a sample of 106 ... -
Attachment security and maternal behaviors as predictors of children's psychosocial adjustment at school entry
Mother–child relationships and children’s psychosocial functioning : the specific roles of attachment security and maternal behavior
Sirois, Marie-Soleil; Bernier, Annie (Taylor & Francis, 2018-05-17)Objective. This paper aimed to examine the contributions of a second assessment time point of attachment security, along with assessments of maternal behavior (sensitivity and autonomy support), to the prediction of children’s behavior problems. Design. ... -
Child temperamental anger, mother–child interactions, and socio-emotional functioning at school entry
Temperamental anger and child functioning
Sirois, Marie-Soleil; Bernier, Annie; Lemelin, Jean-Pascal (Elsevier, 2018-11-02)This study investigated the role of temperamental anger in toddlerhood in the prediction of child socio-emotional functioning at school entry and the moderating function of mother–child interactions in these predictive associations. The sample included ... -
Deconstructing maternal sensitivity: Predictive relations to mother-child attachment in home and laboratory settings
Bailey, Heidi N.; Bernier, Annie; Bouvette-Turcot, Andrée-Anne; Tarabulsy, George M.; Pederson, David R.; Becker-Stoll, Fabienne (2016-09-07)Despite the well-documented importance of parental sensitivity for child development, there is a lack of consensus regarding how best to assess it. We investigated the factor structure of maternal caregiving behavior as assessed at 12 months by the ... -
Disentangling the direction of associations between sleep and temperament in toddlers
Bastien, Laurianne; Tétreault, Émilie; Bernier, Annie (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-24)Objectives/Background: Although much research has investigated the associations between children’s sleep and their temperament, the direction of these associations remains unclear, largely due to a lack of longitudinal studies with repeated assessments ... -
From early relationships to preacademic knowledge : a socio-cognitive developmental cascade to school readiness
Bernier, Annie; Beauchamp, Miriam; Cimon-Paquet, Catherine (Wiley, 2018-10-08)This study aimed to test a four-wave sequential mediation model linking mother–child attachment to children’s school readiness through child executive functioning (EF) and prosociality in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Mother–child attachment ... -
How do mothers with borderline personality disorder mentalize when interacting with their infants?
Marcoux, Andrée-Anne; Bernier, Annie; Séguin, Jean; Boike-Armerding, Jennifer; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (2017-02-01)Mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been theorized to have decreased mentalization ability, which is the capacity to perceive and interpret mental states. This could increase the risk for troubled relationships with ... -
Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s school readiness: A longitudinal study of developmental processes
Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine; Perrier, Rachel (2017-02)This study aimed to test a five-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children’s school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful control in toddlerhood and ... -
Maternal psychosocial maladjustment and child internalizing symptoms: Investigating the modulating role of maternal sensitivity
Bouvette-Turcot, Andrée-Anne; Bernier, Annie; Leblanc, Élizabel (2017-01)In light of evidence suggesting that maternal adaptation may impact early child emotional development, this study investigated the interactive effects of maternal psychosocial maladjustment and maternal sensitivity on child ... -
Mother–infant interaction and child brain morphology : a multidimensional approach to maternal sensitivity
Sensitivity and brain structure
Bernier, Annie; Dégeilh, Fanny; Leblanc, Élizabel; Daneault, Véronique; Bailey, Heidi N.; Beauchamp, Miriam (Wiley, 2018-05)Emerging research suggests that normative variation in parenting quality relates to children's brain development. However, although the young brain is presumed to be especially sensitive to environmental influence, to our knowledge only two studies ... -
Normative developmental trajectories of actigraphic sleep variables during the preschool period : a three-wave longitudinal study
Preschool sleep trajectories
Tétreault, Émilie; Bernier, Annie; Matte‐Gagné, Célia; Carrier, Julie (Wiley, 2018-02)Important changes in sleep are believed to occur in the preschool years, but studies that have documented these changes were generally cross‐sectional or based on subjective sleep measures. The current longitudinal study modeled the developmental ... -
Objective and subjective measures of sleep among preschoolers: Disentangling attachment security and dependency
Attachment and sleep among toddlers: disentangling attachment security and dependency.
Bélanger, Marie-Ève; Bernier, Annie; Simard, Valérie; Bordeleau, Stéphanie; Carrier, Julie (2015-03)Many scholars have proposed that parent-child attachment security should favor child sleep. Research has yet, however, to provide convincing support for this hypothesis. The current study used objective measures of sleep and attachment to assess the ... -
Parenting and preschoolers’ executive functioning : A case of differential susceptibility?
Rochette, Émilie; Bernier, Annie (2016-03)A growing body of theoretical and empirical work has been attempting to answer the questions of how and how much of the effects of children’s early experience may depend on their inner characteristics. Theory and evidence suggest that some children, ... -
Parent–child relationships and child executive functioning at school entry: the importance of fathers
Hertz, Sarah; Bernier, Annie; Cimon-Paquet, Catherine; Regueiro, Sophie (Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-21)This study aimed to examine the unique and interactive contributions of the quality of mothers’ and fathers’ relationships with their toddlers to the prediction of children’s subsequent executive functioning (EF). The sample included 46 low-risk ... -
Reconsidering the links between sibship size, maternal sensitivity, and child attachment : a multidimensional interactive approach
Sibship size and maternal sensitivity
Bernier, Annie; Miljkovitch, Raphaële; Tarabulsy, George M.; Sirois, Marie-Soleil; Bailey, Heidi N. (American Psychological Association, 2018-04)Despite being a well-documented predictor of children’s cognitive and social development, sibship has received remarkably little attention in the attachment and maternal sensitivity literature. The only study that has examined both sensitivity and ... -
The role of paternal mind‐mindedness in preschoolers' self‐regulated conduct
Gagné, Christine; Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine A. (Wiley, 2018-01-17)This study examined the prospective links between paternal mind‐mindedness (MM) and 2 indices of preschoolers' self‐regulated con-duct, namely, inhibitory control and rule‐compatible conduct.Ninety‐two families (47 boys) participated in 2 assessments. ... -
A secure base from which to regulate: Attachment security in toddlerhood as a predictor of executive functioning at school entry
Bernier, Annie; Beauchamp, Miriam; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Lalonde, Gabrielle (2015-09)In light of emerging evidence suggesting that the affective quality of parent-child relationships may relate to individual differences in young children's executive functioning (EF) skills, the aim of this study was to investigate ...