Books and Babies
The Books and Babies study explores how families share books during their child’s earliest years and their impressions of Reach Out and Read, a national program that provides books through pediatric well-child visits. The results from this study indicate that parents’ mental health symptoms and the quality of parent-provider relationships can play a role in the frequency of shared book reading.
Click here to read an article on the Books and Babies study featured in the Auburn Research Magazine!
*We will begin the third wave of data collection for the Books and Babies study in late Fall 2025!
COMBO Collaboration
The EARLY Lab collaborates with the Center for Early Relational Health at Columbia University. Currently, our team is coding hundreds of mother-infant interaction videos to better understand the foundations of early relational health.
A second project, conducted with Reach Out and Read and the Center for Early Relational Health, explored the use of a unique QR code approach to engaging with families around the research process.
Learning About Parents and Infants Study (LAPIS)
The Learning About Parents and Infants Study (LAPIS) explores the associations among parental burnout, parent self-care practices, infant negative emotionality, and couple relationship characteristics. Preliminary findings suggest that parents who perceive their infant as less negative report fewer anxiety and depression symptoms and lower levels of parental burnout. We are also finding that a more supportive coparenting relationship may help to buffer parents from the experience of parental burnout.
*We will begin the second wave of data collection for the Learning About Parents and Infants Study in late Fall 2025!
