ArticleDevelopmental psychology2020
Beyond language: Impacts of shared reading on parenting stress and early parent-child relational health.
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- A Pilot Study to Examine the Effects of an Emotion Coaching Parenting Program for Chinese Parents of Preschoolers.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Value added: Digital modeling of dialogic questioning promotes positive parenting during shared reading.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Trial
- Implementation of Emotional Connection Training in Pediatric Primary Care: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR medical education · 2026Article
- Parental depressive symptoms and shared reading practices among preschool children in western China: cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Shared reading is associated with fewer emotional/behavioral problems and better prosocial behavior in preschool children: a cross-sectional study in western China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Maternal Stress and Child Development: The Moderating Role of Interactive Shared Reading.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Promoting language and literacy through shared book reading in the NICU: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Strategies to support language development in neonatal intensive care unit: a narrative review.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2024Article
- Early Literacy Developmental Activities and Pre-Kindergarten Learning Skills in the Context of Childhood Adversity.Academic pediatrics · 2024Article
- Modifiable factors influencing attention performance in healthy children: insights from a comprehensive school nutrition study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Development and evaluation of a family-child reading picture book on reducing autism spectrum disorder caregivers' psychological stress: a mixed method study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Difficult Toddler Temperament - Prevalence and Associated Factors at 18-Month Follow-Up of a Birth Cohort.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Using the Ages & Stages Questionnaire to assess later effects of an infant intervention promoting language in primary care.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Collateral benefits from a school-readiness intervention on breastfeeding: A cross-domain impact evaluation.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- The challenge of screen mediated shared reading for children's learning and engagement.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Neighborhood influences on the development of self-regulation among children of color living in historically disinvested neighborhoods: Moderators and mediating mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- The Ecology of Youth Psychological Wellbeing in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Reducing Poverty-Related Disparities in Child Development and School Readiness: The Smart Beginnings Tiered Prevention Strategy that Combines Pediatric Primary Care with Home Visiting.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Review
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Abstract
This study examined the interrelated and longitudinal impacts of parent-child shared book reading, parenting stress, and early relational health, as measured by both parental warmth and parent sensitivity, from infancy to toddlerhood. To extend findings from previous studies of collateral effects that have been conducted in parenting interventions, we examined parenting behaviors in a broader context to determine whether shared book reading would confer collateral benefits to the parent and parent-child relationship beyond those expected (i.e., language and literacy). It was hypothesized that positive parent-child interactions, such as shared reading, would have positive impacts on parent outcomes such as parenting stress, parental warmth, and sensitivity. The sample consisted of 293 low-income mothers and their children who participated in a randomized controlled trial. Shared book reading, parenting stress, and parental warmth were assessed when children were 6 and 18 months old. We computed a series of cross-lagged structural equation models to examine longitudinal interrelations among these three factors. Results indicated that shared book reading at 6 months was associated with increases in observed and reported parental warmth and observed sensitivity and decreases in parenting stress at 18 months, controlling for baseline risk factors and treatment group status. These findings suggest that early parent-child book reading can have positive collateral impacts on parents' stress and the parent-child relationship over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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