This project investigates endogenous and exogenous factors that contribute to the development of cognitive and social competencies in children during the first four years of life. Before children are old enough to enter formal social learning situations, nearly all of their experiences stem directly from interactions they have with their primary caregivers. The present study focuses on the extent to which several maternal characteristics (age, employment status, parenthood status, SES, parity, as well as type of substitute care experienced during mother's employment) influence observed relations between caregiving on the one hand and child cognitive and social competencies on the other. In this longitudinal study, subjects are visited when they are 5, 20, and 48 months old. At 5 months, mother-infant interaction is observed. At 20 months, measures of toddler functioning (i.e., play competence, language development, and social adaptation) and maternal behavior (i.e., play and I.Q.) are obtained. At 48 months, the follow-up examines diverse children's abilities (representational competence, problem solving, reasoning skills, mathematical ability, language use and discourse, and selected aspects of generally adaptive behavior).
| Esposito, G; Valenzi, S; Islam, T et al. (2015) Immediate and selective maternal brain responses to own infant faces. Behav Brain Res 278:40-3 |
| Bornstein, Marc H; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Wolke, Dieter (2013) Systems and cascades in cognitive development and academic achievement. Child Dev 84:154-62 |
| Bornstein, Marc H; Suwalsky, Joan T D; Putnick, Diane L et al. (2010) Developmental Continuity and Stability of Emotional Availability in the Family: Two Ages and Two Genders in Child-Mother Dyads from Two Regions in Three Countries. Int J Behav Dev 34:385-397 |
| Suwalsky, Joan T D; Hendricks, Charlene; Bornstein, Marc H (2008) Families by Adoption and Birth: II. Mother-Infant Cognitive Interactions. Adopt Q 11:126 |
| Bornstein, Marc H; Putnick, Diane L (2007) Chronological age, cognitions, and practices in European American mothers: a multivariate study of parenting. Dev Psychol 43:850-64 |
| Bornstein, Marc H; Putnick, Diane L; Suwalsky, Joan T D et al. (2006) Maternal chronological age, prenatal and perinatal history, social support, and parenting of infants. Child Dev 77:875-92 |
| Bornstein, Michael M; Suter, Valerie G A; Stauffer, Edouard et al. (2003) [The CO2 laser in stomatology. Part 2] Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 113:766-85 |
| Gruica, Boris; Stauffer, Edouard; Buser, Daniel et al. (2003) Ameloblastoma of the follicular, plexiform, and acanthomatous type in the maxillary sinus: a case report. Quintessence Int 34:311-4 |
| Bornstein, Michael M; Suter, Valerie G; Stauffer, Edouard et al. (2003) [The CO2 laser in stomatology. Part 1] Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 113:559-70 |
| Sleiter, Roberto; Altermatt, Hans Jorg; Buser, Daniel et al. (2002) [Cavernous hemangioma in the masseter muscle with multiple phlebolith formation: a case report] Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed 112:617-23 |
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