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Peer reviewedLeger, Daniel W.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Parents, and adults inexperienced in child care rated intensities of infants' cries. The groups did not differ in their ratings. The cries of 6-month olds were rated more intense than 1-month olds. Amplitude and noisiness of cry predicted adult judgments of 1-year olds' cries. A measure of amplitude ratio predicted ratings of 6-month olds' cries.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Adults, Age Differences, Crying
Peer reviewedSt James-Roberts, Ian; Plewis, Ian – Child Development, 1996
Used multilevel analyses to examined the amounts of time infants spent asleep, awake, content, feeding, fussing, and crying at 2, 6, 12, and 40 weeks of age. Found that day-to-day fluctuations accounted for between 44 and 53% of the variance in amounts of time sleeping, fussing, and crying. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Crying, Developmental Stages, Eating Habits
Peer reviewedFish, Margaret; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Compared infants who had evidenced similar levels of crying as neonates but differed at five months of age. For initially high-crying infants, mothers' personality and marital quality, and infant variables discriminated stable from changing infants. Mother sensitivity and infant responsiveness at five months were related to continuity of infants'…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Crying, Heart Rate, Infant Behavior
