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Parental Reflective Functioning Moderates the Relationship between Difficult Temperament in Infancy and Behavior Problems in Toddlerhood
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Wong, Kristyn; Stacks, Ann M.; Rosenblum, Katherine L.; Muzik, Maria – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study assessed the links between infant negative affect, parental reflective functioning (RF), and toddler behavior problems in a sample of 84 women and their infants. Mothers provided self-report demographic data and completed the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised during a home visit when the infant was 7 months old. They also completed…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship
Toddlers' Differential Susceptibility to the Effects of Coparenting on Social-Emotional Adjustment
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Altenburger, Lauren E.; Lang, Sarah N.; Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.; Kamp Dush, Claire M.; Johnson, Susan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The paper reports on a study which tested whether infants high in negative affectivity are differentially susceptible to observed coparenting behavior in relation to their subsequent social-emotional development. Data came from a longitudinal study of 182 US dual-earner, primiparous couples and their infant children. At nine-months postpartum,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, At Risk Persons, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Development of Behavior Problems: Contributions of Infant Temperament in Russia and U.S.
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Maria A. Gartstein,; Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Kirchhoff, Cornelia; Putnam, Samuel P. – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2013
The present study was designed to examine cross-cultural differences in longitudinal links between infant temperament toddler behavior problems in the U.S. (N= 250) and Russia (N= 129). Profiles of risk/protective temperament factors varied across the two countries, with fewer significant temperament effects observed for the Russian, relative to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Behavior Problems, Risk, Regression (Statistics)
Fetal Antecedents of Infant Temperament.
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DiPietro, Janet A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined fetal heart rate and movement in 31 healthy fetuses from 20 weeks through birth and at age 6 months. Found that more active fetuses were more difficult, unpredictable, unadaptable, and active as infants that were less active fetuses, and that higher fetal heart rate was associated with lower emotional tone, activity level, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
Young Children's Compliance and Noncompliance to Parental Discipline in a Natural Setting.
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Chapman, Michael; Zahn-Waxler, Carolyn – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Twenty-four mothers were trained to record emotional incidents involving their toddlers. Reports of disciplinary encounters were analyzed in terms of (1) the types of discipline used and children's responses to that discipline and (2) the relationship between compliance/noncompliance and type of misdeed. Love withdrawal was shown to be a highly…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Discipline
Infant Affective Responses to Mother's Still Face at 6 Months Differentially Predict Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors at 18 Months.
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Moore, Ginger A.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Campbell, Susan B. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated stability and change in infant affective responses to still-face interaction, impact of maternal depression, and whether infant responses predicted toddler problem behaviors. Found stable individual differences in gazing away and rates of negative affect. Gazing away increased over time. Mothers' current depressive symptoms and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, Eye Movements