Pivotal behavior as the mediator of the relationship between parental responsiveness and children's symbolic behavior |
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| Institution: | 1. Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA;2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;3. Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;4. Pediatric Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Units, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;1. Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;2. Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;3. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA;5. Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque, NM, USA;6. The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA;1. MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;2. Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;3. Global Health Fellows Program II, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington DC, USA;4. FHI 360, Durham, NC, USA;5. Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, Jhpiego, Maputo, Mozambique |
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| Abstract: | Previous research with parents and children with developmental disabilities indicated that the relationship between mothers’ responsive style of interaction and children's rate of development was mediated by the simultaneous relationship between mothers’ responsiveness and children's social engagement, or pivotal behavior. In this study, we attempted to determine whether children's pivotal behavior might also mediate the relationship between responsiveness and child development in a sample of 165 typically developing toddlers and their Taiwanese parents. Child development was assessed with a parent report measure of children's symbolic behavior. Parental responsiveness and children's pivotal behavior were assessed from observations of parent–child play. Results indicated that parental responsiveness was correlated with children's pivotal behavior, and that both of these variables were correlated with children's symbolic behavior. Structural equation models indicated that the relationship between responsiveness and children's symbolic behavior was fully mediated by children's pivotal behavior. |
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| Keywords: | Parental responsiveness Pivotal behavior Symbolic behavior Toddler development Cross-cultural |
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