| Summary: | The first year of life is an essential phase for all psychological areas in the child development.
The key competences, vital for all development processes of the child, focus on the
communication and the socio-emotional competencies, mostly because the infant is strongly
dependent of adult care environment. The quality of the primary caregiving relationship
can configure the cognitive, affective and social development of the child in the first year of
life. This study is aiming to identify the objective and psychological factors related to the
development of early communication competences of the child in the first year of life and to
identify the best predictors of these competencies, in order to conceptualize the best
strategies to help the parents in their parental educational tasks and to prevent any delays
in infant development. The study identifies a complex system of factors influencing the
infant's communication skills, the prerequisites of communication being in relation both
with the individual characteristics of the child in the first year of life, mainly the
temperament and resilience, and with maternal and paternal factors, such as emotional
maturity, patterns of primary attachment of the parents and the mother/father reflective
functioning.
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