Maternal contingent interventions led to children's successful actions at 12 and 18 months but not at 24 months, while children's success led to contingent withdrawal of support at every time-point¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Chi-square sequential analyses showed contingent interventions led to child success more than chance at 12 and 18 months but not at 24 months. → Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019 q2 i? Children's successful actions led to contingent maternal interventions more than unsuccessful actions with both toys at every time-point, indicating mothers withdrew support after success more than they increased support after struggle. → Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019 (2)

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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Chi-square sequential analysis of turn-based mother-infant behaviour codes (e.g., 34 dyads and 707 behaviours at 12 months with the ring toy), testing whether contingent interventions preceded child success beyond chance (Figs. 1 and 2).

"Contingent interventions led to successful actions by the child significantly more than non-contingent interventions at 12-months and 18-months (despite the absence of a significant correlation at 18 months), but not at 24-months."

Dave Neale & David Whitebread 2019 (2)¶

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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The second sequential analysis set on the same turn-based coded dataset, testing whether child success preceded contingent maternal interventions. The article reports the reverse direction held "with both toys and at every time-point".

"children ’s successful actions led to a contingent intervention by their mother significantly more than unsuccessful actions with both toys and at every time-point, meaning that mothers were more likely to withdraw support when their child was doing well than they were to increase support when their child was struggling."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Children of consistently contingent mothers (30%+ contingent at all three time-points) scored higher on grasping, delay and cognitive measures than children of inconsistently contingent mothers
• Maternal contingency is the only scaffolding variable related to child performance during scaffolding across all three time-points — related
• Maternal contingency during infant play is consistent across toys at 12 months but shows no consistency over time — related
• Children with low initial effortful control showed rising trajectories to above the mean only when their mothers were consistently contingent — related