Annette M E Henderson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 763360 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Annette M E Henderson |
| PRENOMES | Annette M E |
| SOBRENOME | Henderson |
| ASSINATURA | HENDERSON A M E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4384-4791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Intergenerational Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Hostile and Benevolent Sexism
Research has confirmed that adults’ hostile sexism and benevolent sexism harm adult women and men. Yet, men’s and women’s sexist attitudes also shape parenting behavior, and children agree with hostile and benevolent sexism at a young age. Our research connects these emerging insights to test the intergenerational links between parents’ and children’s sexism in 175 family triads: mothers, fathers, and their 8-year-old child (51% girls, 49% boys).…
Examining associations between Adult Attachment Interview responses and multiple indicators of parental mentalizing
Parental mentalization has been identified as a key mechanism in attachment transmission (Sharp & Fonagy, 2008; Van IJzendoorn & Bakermans‐Kranenburg, 2019). With a community sample of 63 mothers of infants, this study examined associations between adult attachment state of mind (using the Adult Attachment Interview), parental mental health and parental mentalizing: both self‐reported parental reflective functioning (PRFQ; Luyten et al., 2017) an…
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions
Men’s hostile sexism predicts harmful behavior toward women. Yet, most investigations have relied on self-report assessments, and overlooked a critical, consequential behavioral outcome: responsive parenting. The current studies provide the first behavioral evidence of the associations between hostile sexism and parenting. Fathers higher in hostile sexism reported lower authoritative (warm, involved) and higher authoritarian (directive, controlli…
Calls over cuddles
Based on past research showing negative associations between parents' use of mobile technologies whilst parenting (so-called “technoference”) and parental responsiveness and attachment, we hypothesised negative associations of technoference and parental warmth for parents of infants. Linear regression with bootstrapping was used to test the associations of several forms of mobile phone use and self-rated parental warmth in a sample of 64 predomin…
The role of parent talk in connected and unconnected conversations on children’s theory-of-mind development
Previous studies have consistently found a positive relationship between parental mental state talk (MST) about desires, emotions, and cognitions as crucial for children's subsequent theory-of-mind development. The present study examined whether connected conversations between the parent and child yielded more parental MST. We employed a within-subjects longitudinal design, testing 48 parents and their children (18- to 26-month-olds) in a series …
The importance of relationship history on parents’ scaffolding of children’s mental states
Parent mental state talk (MST) is an important contributor for children's theory-of-mind development, with cognitive MST for Western children being more advanced, often being used with older children relative to talk about desires or emotions. We investigated the contexts in which cognitive MST is most prevalent, as well as the conditions that prompted mothers to provide scaffolding of MST with toddlers. We tested 89 mother-toddler dyads, examini…
Examining the association between mothers’ life logistics and screen time of children aged 4 – 5 years old
The recent proliferation of mobile technology has dramatically changed the media landscape experienced by today’s preschool children, which presents an opportunity to re-appraise the predictors of screen time for children in this age group. Previous research conducted by Beyens and Eggermont has shown mothers’ life logistics to be longitudinally predictive of one- to fouryear-old children’s hours of TV viewing. Their Observed Life Logistics Model…
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure
BackgroundMany people fear failure and making mistakes. This fear can be transmitted from parents to children, suggesting that parental communication regarding failures and setbacks may play a critical role in shaping a child's perception of mistakes.AimsIn this study, we investigated how everyday parent-child conversations about setbacks influence children's fear of making mistakes.SampleDrawing on the large pre-birth Growing Up in New Zealand c…
Feeling loved as a strong link in relationship interactions
Feeling loved (loved, cared for, accepted, valued, understood) is inherently dyadic, yet most prior theoretical perspectives and investigations have focused on how actors feeling (un)loved shapes actors' outcomes. Adopting a dyadic perspective, the present research tested whether the established links between actors feeling unloved and destructive (critical, hostile) behavior depended on partners' feelings of being loved. Does feeling loved need …
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During Covid-19 Quarantines
The COVID-19 pandemic presents acute, ongoing relationship challenges. The current research tested how (1) preexisting vulnerabilities assessed prior to the pandemic (attachment insecurity) and (2) stress as couples endured a mandated quarantine predicted residual changes in relationship functioning. Controlling for prequarantine problems, relationship quality, and family environment, greater partners’ attachment anxiety predicted greater relatio…
A Survey of Screen Media Access and Use in Primary School Children’s Households
Our primary aim was to gain a better understanding of current technology availability and use in the homes of primary school children. The online-accessible questionnaire was made available for families with a child enrolled at primary school, with over 300 families participating. The results suggest that it is common for children to be introduced to screen media early in life and that they watch a wide range of content. While many families have …
Enduring Covid-19 lockdowns
Have the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic risked declines in parents' health and family functioning, or have most parents been resilient and shown no changes in health and family functioning? Assessing average risk versus resilience requires examining how families have fared across the pandemic, beyond the initial months examined in prior investigations. The current research examines changes in parents' health and functioning over the first 1.5 y…
Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
The current research tests the links between emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Study 1, parents ( N = 365) who had reported on their psychological and physical health prior to the pandemic completed the same health assessments along with their use of emotion regulation strategies when confined in the home with their school-aged children during a nationwide lockdown. In Study 2, individuals (…
Parents’ distress and poor parenting during a Covid-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and cooperative coparenting buffer this potentially detrimental effect. Participants included 362 parents;…
Joint and individual tool making in preschoolers
Tool making has been proposed as a key force in driving the complexity of human material culture. The ontogeny of tool‐related behaviors hinges on social, representational, and creative factors. In this study, we test the associations between these factors in development across two different cultures. Results of Study 1 with 5‐to‐6‐year‐old Turkish children in dyadic or individual settings show that tool making is facilitated by social interactio…
Emotion regulation, conflict resolution, and spillover on subsequent family functioning
How does emotion regulation in one social context spillover to functioning in another? We investigate this novel question by drawing upon recent evidence that 3 categories underpin the most commonly assessed emotion regulation strategies: disengagement, aversive cognitive perseveration, and adaptive engagement. We examine how these emotion regulation categories during marital conflict are associated with conflict resolution and assess the associa…
Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants’ Understanding of Collaborative Goals
Collaborative activities in which individuals coordinate their actions to attain a common goal play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. Evidence suggests that infants engage in collaborative activities before their first birthday; however, little is known about infants’ understanding of collaborative action. Using a visual habituation paradigm, this research consists of two experiments designed to investigate whether 10‐month‐olds understan…
Language matters
Object labels are valuable communicative tools because their meanings are shared among the members of a particular linguistic community. The current research was conducted to investigate whether 13-month-old infants appreciate that object labels should not be generalized across individuals who have been shown to speak different languages. Using a visual habituation paradigm, Experiment 1 tested whether infants would generalize a new object label …
Parents' use of conventional and unconventional labels in conversations with their preschoolers
Parents' use of conventional versus unconventional labels with their two- ( n =12), three- ( n =12) and four-year-old children ( n =12) was assessed as they talked about objects that were either known or unknown to them. For known objects, parents provided typical conventional labels casually during the conversation. For unknown objects, parents were less likely to use typical nouns as labels and marked their labels with additional information su…
How an appreciation of conventionality shapes early word learning
Children's sensitivity to the shared, conventional nature of word meanings makes their word learning more efficient and less prone to error. After reviewing the evidence in support of this claim, we suggest that children's earliest appreciation of conventionality might be rooted in limitations in their theory-of-mind skills
Nineteen‐Month‐Olds' Understanding of the Conventionality of Object Labels Versus Desires
We assessed 19‐month‐olds' appreciation of the conventional nature of object labels versus desires. Infants played a finding game with an experimenter who stated her intention to find the referent of a novel word (word group), to find an object she wanted (desire group), or simply to look in a box (control group). A 2nd experimenter then administered a comprehension task to assess infants' tendency to extend information to a 2nd person who was no…
The influence of object pre-exposure on two-year-olds' disambiguation of novel labels
We investigated whether manipulating the perceived novelty of nameless objects would influence two-year-olds' tendency to map novel words to these objects. In Experiment 1, children who had been pre-exposed to target nameless objects were more likely to map novel words onto those objects than children who were not pre-exposed to the objects or children who were pre-exposed to non-target members of the nameless object categories. In Experiment 2, …
Parents’ distress and poor parenting during a Covid-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and cooperative coparenting buffer this potentially detrimental effect. Participants included 362 parents;…
Enduring Covid-19 lockdowns
Have the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic risked declines in parents' health and family functioning, or have most parents been resilient and shown no changes in health and family functioning? Assessing average risk versus resilience requires examining how families have fared across the pandemic, beyond the initial months examined in prior investigations. The current research examines changes in parents' health and functioning over the first 1.5 y…
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure
BackgroundMany people fear failure and making mistakes. This fear can be transmitted from parents to children, suggesting that parental communication regarding failures and setbacks may play a critical role in shaping a child's perception of mistakes.AimsIn this study, we investigated how everyday parent-child conversations about setbacks influence children's fear of making mistakes.SampleDrawing on the large pre-birth Growing Up in New Zealand c…
Language matters
Object labels are valuable communicative tools because their meanings are shared among the members of a particular linguistic community. The current research was conducted to investigate whether 13-month-old infants appreciate that object labels should not be generalized across individuals who have been shown to speak different languages. Using a visual habituation paradigm, Experiment 1 tested whether infants would generalize a new object label …
The influence of object pre-exposure on two-year-olds' disambiguation of novel labels
We investigated whether manipulating the perceived novelty of nameless objects would influence two-year-olds' tendency to map novel words to these objects. In Experiment 1, children who had been pre-exposed to target nameless objects were more likely to map novel words onto those objects than children who were not pre-exposed to the objects or children who were pre-exposed to non-target members of the nameless object categories. In Experiment 2, …
Nineteen‐Month‐Olds' Understanding of the Conventionality of Object Labels Versus Desires
We assessed 19‐month‐olds' appreciation of the conventional nature of object labels versus desires. Infants played a finding game with an experimenter who stated her intention to find the referent of a novel word (word group), to find an object she wanted (desire group), or simply to look in a box (control group). A 2nd experimenter then administered a comprehension task to assess infants' tendency to extend information to a 2nd person who was no…
How an appreciation of conventionality shapes early word learning
Children's sensitivity to the shared, conventional nature of word meanings makes their word learning more efficient and less prone to error. After reviewing the evidence in support of this claim, we suggest that children's earliest appreciation of conventionality might be rooted in limitations in their theory-of-mind skills
Parents' use of conventional and unconventional labels in conversations with their preschoolers
Parents' use of conventional versus unconventional labels with their two- ( n =12), three- ( n =12) and four-year-old children ( n =12) was assessed as they talked about objects that were either known or unknown to them. For known objects, parents provided typical conventional labels casually during the conversation. For unknown objects, parents were less likely to use typical nouns as labels and marked their labels with additional information su…
Active Experience Shapes 10‐Month‐Old Infants’ Understanding of Collaborative Goals
Collaborative activities in which individuals coordinate their actions to attain a common goal play a fundamental role in our everyday lives. Evidence suggests that infants engage in collaborative activities before their first birthday; however, little is known about infants’ understanding of collaborative action. Using a visual habituation paradigm, this research consists of two experiments designed to investigate whether 10‐month‐olds understan…
Language matters
Object labels are valuable communicative tools because their meanings are shared among the members of a particular linguistic community. The current research was conducted to investigate whether 13-month-old infants appreciate that object labels should not be generalized across individuals who have been shown to speak different languages. Using a visual habituation paradigm, Experiment 1 tested whether infants would generalize a new object label …
Emotion regulation, conflict resolution, and spillover on subsequent family functioning
How does emotion regulation in one social context spillover to functioning in another? We investigate this novel question by drawing upon recent evidence that 3 categories underpin the most commonly assessed emotion regulation strategies: disengagement, aversive cognitive perseveration, and adaptive engagement. We examine how these emotion regulation categories during marital conflict are associated with conflict resolution and assess the associa…
Joint and individual tool making in preschoolers
Tool making has been proposed as a key force in driving the complexity of human material culture. The ontogeny of tool‐related behaviors hinges on social, representational, and creative factors. In this study, we test the associations between these factors in development across two different cultures. Results of Study 1 with 5‐to‐6‐year‐old Turkish children in dyadic or individual settings show that tool making is facilitated by social interactio…
Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown
The current research tests the links between emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Study 1, parents ( N = 365) who had reported on their psychological and physical health prior to the pandemic completed the same health assessments along with their use of emotion regulation strategies when confined in the home with their school-aged children during a nationwide lockdown. In Study 2, individuals (…
Parents’ distress and poor parenting during a Covid-19 lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing demands on parents that may amplify the risk of parents' distress and poor parenting. Leveraging a prepandemic study in New Zealand, the current research tested whether parents' psychological distress during a mandated lockdown predicts relative residual changes in poorer parenting and whether partner support and cooperative coparenting buffer this potentially detrimental effect. Participants included 362 parents;…
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During Covid-19 Quarantines
The COVID-19 pandemic presents acute, ongoing relationship challenges. The current research tested how (1) preexisting vulnerabilities assessed prior to the pandemic (attachment insecurity) and (2) stress as couples endured a mandated quarantine predicted residual changes in relationship functioning. Controlling for prequarantine problems, relationship quality, and family environment, greater partners’ attachment anxiety predicted greater relatio…
A Survey of Screen Media Access and Use in Primary School Children’s Households
Our primary aim was to gain a better understanding of current technology availability and use in the homes of primary school children. The online-accessible questionnaire was made available for families with a child enrolled at primary school, with over 300 families participating. The results suggest that it is common for children to be introduced to screen media early in life and that they watch a wide range of content. While many families have …
Enduring Covid-19 lockdowns
Have the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic risked declines in parents' health and family functioning, or have most parents been resilient and shown no changes in health and family functioning? Assessing average risk versus resilience requires examining how families have fared across the pandemic, beyond the initial months examined in prior investigations. The current research examines changes in parents' health and functioning over the first 1.5 y…
Feeling loved as a strong link in relationship interactions
Feeling loved (loved, cared for, accepted, valued, understood) is inherently dyadic, yet most prior theoretical perspectives and investigations have focused on how actors feeling (un)loved shapes actors' outcomes. Adopting a dyadic perspective, the present research tested whether the established links between actors feeling unloved and destructive (critical, hostile) behavior depended on partners' feelings of being loved. Does feeling loved need …
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions
Men’s hostile sexism predicts harmful behavior toward women. Yet, most investigations have relied on self-report assessments, and overlooked a critical, consequential behavioral outcome: responsive parenting. The current studies provide the first behavioral evidence of the associations between hostile sexism and parenting. Fathers higher in hostile sexism reported lower authoritative (warm, involved) and higher authoritarian (directive, controlli…
Calls over cuddles
Based on past research showing negative associations between parents' use of mobile technologies whilst parenting (so-called “technoference”) and parental responsiveness and attachment, we hypothesised negative associations of technoference and parental warmth for parents of infants. Linear regression with bootstrapping was used to test the associations of several forms of mobile phone use and self-rated parental warmth in a sample of 64 predomin…
The role of parent talk in connected and unconnected conversations on children’s theory-of-mind development
Previous studies have consistently found a positive relationship between parental mental state talk (MST) about desires, emotions, and cognitions as crucial for children's subsequent theory-of-mind development. The present study examined whether connected conversations between the parent and child yielded more parental MST. We employed a within-subjects longitudinal design, testing 48 parents and their children (18- to 26-month-olds) in a series …
The importance of relationship history on parents’ scaffolding of children’s mental states
Parent mental state talk (MST) is an important contributor for children's theory-of-mind development, with cognitive MST for Western children being more advanced, often being used with older children relative to talk about desires or emotions. We investigated the contexts in which cognitive MST is most prevalent, as well as the conditions that prompted mothers to provide scaffolding of MST with toddlers. We tested 89 mother-toddler dyads, examini…
Examining the association between mothers’ life logistics and screen time of children aged 4 – 5 years old
The recent proliferation of mobile technology has dramatically changed the media landscape experienced by today’s preschool children, which presents an opportunity to re-appraise the predictors of screen time for children in this age group. Previous research conducted by Beyens and Eggermont has shown mothers’ life logistics to be longitudinally predictive of one- to fouryear-old children’s hours of TV viewing. Their Observed Life Logistics Model…
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure
BackgroundMany people fear failure and making mistakes. This fear can be transmitted from parents to children, suggesting that parental communication regarding failures and setbacks may play a critical role in shaping a child's perception of mistakes.AimsIn this study, we investigated how everyday parent-child conversations about setbacks influence children's fear of making mistakes.SampleDrawing on the large pre-birth Growing Up in New Zealand c…
Intergenerational Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Hostile and Benevolent Sexism
Research has confirmed that adults’ hostile sexism and benevolent sexism harm adult women and men. Yet, men’s and women’s sexist attitudes also shape parenting behavior, and children agree with hostile and benevolent sexism at a young age. Our research connects these emerging insights to test the intergenerational links between parents’ and children’s sexism in 175 family triads: mothers, fathers, and their 8-year-old child (51% girls, 49% boys).…
Examining associations between Adult Attachment Interview responses and multiple indicators of parental mentalizing
Parental mentalization has been identified as a key mechanism in attachment transmission (Sharp & Fonagy, 2008; Van IJzendoorn & Bakermans‐Kranenburg, 2019). With a community sample of 63 mothers of infants, this study examined associations between adult attachment state of mind (using the Adult Attachment Interview), parental mental health and parental mentalizing: both self‐reported parental reflective functioning (PRFQ; Luyten et al., 2017) an…
Psychology (20 obras) · Developmental psychology (15 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras) · Cognitive psychology (9 obras) · Child and Animal Learning Development (8 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Cognition (5 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (5 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras)