Scaffolding the Emergence of Infant Helping: A Longitudinal Experiment

Autor/inn/en	Dahl, Audun; Goeltz, Mary Taylor; Brownell, Celia A.
Titel	Scaffolding the Emergence of Infant Helping: A Longitudinal Experiment
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 3, S.751-759 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dahl, Audun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13710
Schlagwörter	Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Infants; Helping Relationship; Prosocial Behavior; Social Development; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Helfende Beziehung; Soziale Entwicklung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Early social experiences, such as caregiver scaffolding, play a crucial but disputed role in the emergence of prosociality. A longitudinal experiment examined how explicit scaffolding--such as encouragement or praise--influences helping late in the first year, when helping emerges. Eighty-three infants (40 female, 6-9 months, 54% White, 17% Hispanic/Latinx, 16% Asian) participated in up to 10-weekly home visits in which they could help an experimenter in a novel activity. Data were collected in Santa Cruz, CA between February 2018 and August 2019. Compared to the control condition, explicit scaffolding increased helping by handing out-of-reach objects, n[superscript 2] = 0.02, and, among younger infants, by cleaning up. Helping also increased with age and visit number. Using a new paradigm, this research provides experimental evidence for how adults' scaffolding shapes the emergence of helping in infancy. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01