Cascades in Action: How the Transition to Walking Shapes Caregiver Communication during Everyday Interactions

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Joshua L.; Iverson, Jana M.
Titel	Cascades in Action: How the Transition to Walking Shapes Caregiver Communication during Everyday Interactions
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 58 (2022) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schneider, Joshua L.) ORCID (Iverson, Jana M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001280
Schlagwörter	Physical Activities; Psychomotor Skills; Infants; Linguistic Input; Nonverbal Communication; Developmental Stages; Parents; Child Development; Behavior Change; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachbildung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Eltern; Kindesentwicklung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	New motor skills supply infants with new possibilities for action and have consequences for development in unexpected places. For example, the transition from crawling to walking is accompanied by gains in other abilities--better ways to move, see the world, and engage in social interactions (e.g., Adolph & Tamis-LeMonda, 2014). Do the developmental changes associated with walking extend to the communicative behaviors of caregivers? Thirty infants (14 boys, 16 girls; 93% White, not Hispanic or Latino) and their caregivers (84% held a college degree or higher) were observed during everyday activities at home during the two-month window surrounding the onset of walking (M infant age = 11.98 months, range = 8.74-14.86). Using a cross-domain coding system, we tracked change in the rates of co-occurrence between infants' locomotor actions and caregivers' concurrent language and gesture input. We examined these relations on two timescales--across developmental time, as infants transitioned from crawling to walking, and in real time based on moment-to-moment differences in infant posture. A consistent pattern of results emerged: compared to crawling, bouts of infant walking were more likely to co-occur with caregiver language and gestures that either requested or described movement or provided information about objects. An effect of infants' real-time behavior was also discovered, such that infants were more likely to hear language from their caregivers when they moved while upright compared to prone. Taken together, findings suggest that the emergence of walking reorganizes the infant-caregiver dyad and sets in motion a developmental cascade that shapes the communication caregivers provide. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01