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Mother–infant interaction and child brain morphology : a multidimensional approach to maternal sensitivity
Sensitivity and brain structure
(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 ...
Associations between early maternal sensitivity and children's sleep throughout early childhood
(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. ...
Deconstructing maternal sensitivity: Predictive relations to mother-child attachment in home and laboratory settings
(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 ...
Reconsidering the links between sibship size, maternal sensitivity, and child attachment : a multidimensional interactive approach
Sibship size and maternal sensitivity
(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 ...