Research Database

Gender differences in adult-infant communication in the first months of life

Topic:

Not Recorded

Journal/Publication:

Pediatrics

Year:

2014
Participant Age Range:
0 –
7 months

Sample Size:

33

Participant Language:

English, Spanish

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the verbal interactions of parents with their infants in the first months of life and to test the hypothesis that reciprocal vocalizations of mother-infant dyads would be more frequent than those of father-infant dyads.