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Donovan, Wilberta; Leavitt, Lewis; Taylor, Nicole – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The impact of differences in maternal self-efficacy and infant difficulty on mothers' sensitivity to small changes in the fundamental frequency of an audiotaped infant's cry was explored in 2 experiments. The experiments share in common experimental manipulations of infant difficulty, a laboratory derived measure of maternal efficacy (low,…
Descriptors: Personality, Self Efficacy, Mothers, Helplessness

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