Mother-infant interaction as a function of maternal ratings of temperament
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Child Psychiatry and Human Development
- Vol. 10 (2) , 67-76
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01433498
Abstract
Mother-infant pairs (N=38) were observed at home when infants were three months old; mothers also completed a questionnaire measure of infant temperament. Infants who were rated as irregular in biological functioning received somewhat less responsive mothering. A subgroup of infants rated as difficult, that is, extremely irregular, nonadaptable, and negative in mood, were then compared with matched controls; mothers interacted less and were less responsive to the social bids of infants they rated as difficult. This pattern of lowered maternal responsiveness was still in evidence at an eight-month follow-up observation, suggesting that negative perceptions of infant behavior can be persistent effects on the quality of caretaking.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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