Children with low initial effortful control showed rising trajectories to above the mean only when their mothers were consistently contingent¶

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q2 i? Three pairs of children matched for below-the-mean 12-month Grasping Task scores diverged by 24 months depending on maternal contingency consistency. → Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019

Evidence¶

Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019¶

Dave Neale & David Whitebread. (2019). Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants: stability over time and relations with emerging effortful control. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-019-09196-6

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Exploratory case comparison (Fig. 3) of three matched pairs of children who began with below-the-mean Grasping Task scores; children of inconsistently contingent mothers showed either a small degree of improvement or a decline and all ended below the mean.

"All three children with consistently contingent mothers showed a similar trajectory of development and ended the study above the mean for effortful control and with scores approximately one standard deviation higher than at the start of the study."

Discussion¶

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