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dc.contributor.authorHolden, Eve
dc.contributor.authorBuryn-Weitzel, Joanna C.
dc.contributor.authorAtim, Santa
dc.contributor.authorBiroch, Hellen
dc.contributor.authorDonnellan, Ed
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Kirsty Emma
dc.contributor.authorHoffman, Maggie
dc.contributor.authorJurua, Michael
dc.contributor.authorKnapper, Charlotte V.
dc.contributor.authorLahiff, Nicole J.
dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorPatricia, Josephine
dc.contributor.authorTusiime, Florence
dc.contributor.authorWilke, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorMajid, Asifa
dc.contributor.authorSlocombe, Katie E.
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T10:30:12Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T10:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-21
dc.identifier282398076
dc.identifierf5727e3f-406b-4def-b743-b761e7e9a106
dc.identifier85144597761
dc.identifier.citationHolden , E , Buryn-Weitzel , J C , Atim , S , Biroch , H , Donnellan , E , Graham , K E , Hoffman , M , Jurua , M , Knapper , C V , Lahiff , N J , Marshall , S , Patricia , J , Tusiime , F , Wilke , C , Majid , A & Slocombe , K E 2022 , ' Maternal attitudes and behaviours differentially shape infant early life experience : a cross cultural study ' , PLoS One , vol. 17 , no. 12 , e0278378 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278378en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7422-7676/work/125302985
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-8348-2700/work/125303079
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26645
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by an ERC (European Research Council: https://erc.europa.eu/funding) Consolidator grant to KES (ERC_CoG 2016_724608).en
dc.description.abstractEarly life environments afford infants a variety of learning opportunities, and caregivers play a fundamental role in shaping infant early life experience. Variation in maternal attitudes and parenting practices is likely to be greater between than within cultures. However, there is limited cross-cultural work characterising how early life environment differs across populations. We examined the early life environment of infants from two cultural contexts where attitudes towards parenting and infant development were expected to differ: in a group of 53 mother-infant dyads in the UK and 44 mother-infant dyads in Uganda. Participants were studied longitudinally from when infants were 3– to 15–months-old. Questionnaire data revealed the Ugandan mothers had more relational attitudes towards parenting than the mothers from the UK, who had more autonomous parenting attitudes. Using questionnaires and observational methods, we examined whether infant development and experience aligned with maternal attitudes. We found the Ugandan infants experienced a more relational upbringing than the UK infants, with Ugandan infants receiving more distributed caregiving, more body contact with their mothers, and more proximity to mothers at night. Ugandan infants also showed earlier physical development compared to UK infants. Contrary to our expectations, however, Ugandan infants were not in closer proximity to their mothers during the day, did not have more people in proximity or more partners for social interaction compared to UK infants. In addition, when we examined attitudes towards specific behaviours, mothers’ attitudes rarely predicted infant experience in related contexts. Taken together our findings highlight the importance of measuring behaviour, rather than extrapolating expected behaviour based on attitudes alone. We found infants’ early life environment varies cross-culturally in many important ways and future research should investigate the consequences of these differences for later development.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Oneen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleMaternal attitudes and behaviours differentially shape infant early life experience : a cross cultural studyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0278378
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://osf.io/vxjdb/en


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