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He, Jie; Hane, Amie Ashley; Degnan, Kathryn Amey; Henderson, Heather A.; Xu, Qinmei; Fox, Nathan A. – Infancy, 2013
We examined two aspects of temperamental approach in early infancy, positive reactivity and anger, and their unique and combined influences on maternal reports of child surgency and attention focusing at 4 years of age. One hundred and fourteen infants were observed for their positive reactions to novel stimuli at 4 months, and their anger…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Psychological Patterns
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Porter, Christin L.; Jones, Blake L.; Evans, Cortney A.; Robinson, Clyde C. – Infancy, 2009
This study examined both differential patterns and the stability of infants' (N = 70) distress reactivity across mother and stranger arm-restraint conditions when infants were 6 and 9 months of age. Reactivity measures included observational variables for the rise, intensity, and duration of infant distress as well as motor activities associated…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Stranger Reactions, Infant Behavior
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Jeon, Hana; Moulson, Margaret C.; Fox, Nathan; Zeanah, Charles; Nelson, Charles A., III – Infancy, 2010
The current study examined the effects of institutionalization on the discrimination of facial expressions of emotion in three groups of 42-month-old children. One group consisted of children abandoned at birth who were randomly assigned to Care-as-Usual (institutional care) following a baseline assessment. Another group consisted of children…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Familiarity, Parents, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Lin, Hung-Chu; Green, James A. – Infancy, 2007
Acoustic properties of the cries of 14 infants were evaluated at both 2 and 4 weeks of age when the infants were lying in a supine position and when they were sitting upright in a car seat. In the upright position, infants' breathing was more rapid and showed less individual variability. The fundamental frequency of their cries increased in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Individual Differences, Acoustics, Human Posture
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Jahromi, Laudan B.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Infancy, 2007
This study investigates individual differences in the contribution of specific maternal regulatory behaviors to the mother-infant dyad's regulation of infant distress response. Additionally, we examined the stability of infants' stress responses and the stability of specific maternal soothing behaviors. The sample included 128 mother-infant dyads…
Descriptors: Mothers, Crying, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hendricks, Charlene; Haynes, O. Maurice; Painter, Kathleen M. – Infancy, 2007
This study examined unique associations of multiple distal context variables (family socioeconomic status [SES], maternal employment, and paternal parenting) and proximal maternal (personality, intelligence, and knowledge; behavior, self-perceptions, and attributions) and child (age, gender, representation, language, and sociability)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Multivariate Analysis