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ArticleInfancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

Maternal Emotional Availability Supports Child Communicative Development Regardless of Child Temperament-Findings From the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study.

Denise Ollas-Skogster, Riikka Korja, Akie Yada, Elina Mainela-Arnold, Hasse Karlsson, David J Bridgett, Pirkko Rautakoski, Linnea Karlsson, Saara Nolvi

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Denise Ollas-SkogsterDepartment of Speech and Language Pathology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1648-8007
Riikka KorjaFinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6833-1565
Akie YadaDepartment of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Elina Mainela-ArnoldFinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Hasse KarlssonFinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
David J BridgettDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA.
Pirkko RautakoskiDepartment of Speech and Language Pathology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Linnea KarlssonFinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Saara NolviFinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4959-1473

Funding

Emil Aaltonen FoundationFinnish Cultural FoundationFinnish State Grants for Clinical ResearchKommunalrådet C G Sundells stiftelseResearch Council of Finland 308176Research Council of Finland 342728Signe and Ane Gyllenberg FoundationStrategic Research Council established within the Academy of Finland 352648Strategic Research Council established within the Academy of Finland 352655
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Abstract

The interplay of emotional availability (EA) and child temperament in association with early language development is understudied. We explored associations between maternal EA and infant communicative development and possible moderations by child temperament. Participants were 151 mother-child dyads from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Path models of associations between 8-month maternal EA and 14-month communicative development and moderation by infant temperament traits were created using SEM. Results show that EA positively predicted a latent variable of communicative development at 14 months. No direct longitudinal effect of EA on 30-month vocabulary was found. Child surgency/extraversion at 6 and 12 months significantly predicted 14-month communicative skills. Temperament did not moderate the association between EA and communicative development. Findings underscore the additive role of maternal caregiving and early surgency/extraversion in predicting early communicative development. The emotional aspects of parenting should be acknowledged as contributors to early communicative development in future studies.

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Child DevelopmentCommunicationEmotionsLanguage DevelopmentMother-Child RelationsMothersTemperamentAdultBirth CohortChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesFemaleHumansInfantLongitudinal StudiesMalecommunicative developmentemotional availabilityinfanttemperamenttoddlervocabulary

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