The Unanticipated Side Effects of an Attachment Intervention: Parents Ask Higher Quality Questions

Caroline Gaudreau, Amanda Delgado, Rachel Confair-Jones, Sydney Flambaum,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,K. Lee Raby,Mary Dozier,Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY(2024)

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Research suggests foster children are at risk for poor language skills. One intervention, attachment and bio-behavioral catch-up (ABC), was shown to successfully improve not only young foster children's attachment to their parents, but also their receptive vocabulary skills (Bernard et al., 2017; Raby et al., 2019). Given that language acquisition is intricately linked to parents' sensitive interactions with their children, we ask whether the ABC intervention also improves the quality of parents' talk addressed to children. We test whether the ABC intervention results in more conversational turns between parents and their children. Crucially, we also look within these conversational turns, assessing the number and types of questions that parents ask children. Results suggest that parents who received the ABC intervention do not have more conversational turns or ask higher numbers of questions, compared to parents who received the control intervention. Rather, parents in the ABC group ask a higher proportion of child-led and restatement questions, and a lower proportion of parent-led and pedagogical questions, compared to the control. Additionally, the higher proportion of child-led questions were related to higher parental sensitivity scores. Together, these results suggest that an intervention originally designed to improve children's socioemotional outcomes had positive benefits for the quality of conversations between parents and children.
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foster children,conversational turns,questions,language development,sensitivity
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