Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy.

ABSTRACT: Parents use music, especially singing, to interact with their young children, supporting parent-child bonding and social communication. Little is known about the parental attributes that support musical interactions with their infants. In this exploratory study, we analyzed self-report data from 43 caregiver/infant dyads at up to four time points (9, 12, 15, and 18 months) to assess parent social motivation and musical training as predictors of the home music environment overall, parental singing, and parental beliefs in the benefits of music. We also investigated the home music environment as a predictor of language development longitudinally. Parent social motivation was a stronger predictor of the home music environment than musical training. Parents' social motivation was positively re

SUBMITTER: Boyne AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12015385 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature