Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains
Duration: 5 mins
Publication Date: 5 May 2025
Next Review Date: 5 May 2028
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13713
Description
In this Video Abstract, Dr. Robert Eves discusses his co-authored JCPP Original Article ‘Interactions between infant characteristics and parenting factors rarely replicate across cohorts and developmental domains’. Whether, and how, infant characteristics and parenting quality interact is one of developmental psychology's key questions. However, whether specific interaction patterns replicate across cohorts or developmental outcomes is largely unknown. This study investigates whether infant characteristics and parenting quality are independent predictors (additive effects) of child outcomes or interact such that certain infants particularly suffer from poor parenting (diathesis stress), particularly benefit from good parenting (vantage sensitivity) or both (differential susceptibility).
Learning Objectives
1. Investigate each model of person-environment interplay for its specificity vs generality across developmental domains.
2. Explore its universality across cohorts.
3. Examine its robustness to methodological change
