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Peer reviewedRobinson, JoAnn; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Explored patterns of emotional communication in 70 mother-infant dyads, emphasizing both mother and child roles in affect regulation. Display of maternal positive and negative affects decreased with age; child affects were unchanged. Maternal sensitivity was associated with maternal matching of son's affects and daughter's creation of shared…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Emotional Development, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedCarter, Alice S.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Examined mothers' and infants' affect in play and infant sex as predictors of infants' response to the still-face situation. (PCB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedBraungart-Rieker, Julia M.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 1996
Examined continuity, stability, and change in behaviors reflecting infant reactivity and regulation. Subjects were 100 infants of 5 and 10 months old. Found that infant behaviors during frustrating situations showed both change and continuity, but the relationship between reactivity and regulation changed in that both factors became more…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Psychology
Download full textRiese, Marilyn L. – 1996
Irritability levels and activity reactivity to aversive tactile stimuli were compared for 144 full-term neonates and 191 preterm infants. Irritability ratings increased across the five trials both during and post stimulation for full-term females and males and for preterm females, but not for preterm males. Activity ratings decreased across trials…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior
PDF pending restorationParke, Ross D.; Sawin, Douglas B. – 1977
This short term longitudinal study of parent-infant interactions over 4 months beginning at birth examines interrelations among patterns of interactive behavior, characteristics of the parents and infants, and parental attitudes, knowledge and feelings in relation to their infants. Forty sets of mothers and fathers were observed interacting with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Family Characteristics, Family (Sociological Unit), Fathers
Mascolo, Michael, F. Ed.; Griffin, Sharon, Ed. – 1998
It is difficult to make progress in the study of emotions and emotional development if the meanings assigned to central constructs vary widely across investigators. This book clarifies and synthesizes the different ways in which emotion researchers approach fundamental questions about the nature of emotion and emotional development. Theorist and…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Anger
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Zehler, Annette M. – 1982
This document consists of four research reports and one research note focusing on several aspects of the cognitive and emotional development of young children. The first article explores two theories of the relationship between cognition and emotion, reporting on an investigation of that relationship in a simple learning task involving 60 Japanese…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability
