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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Infant crying"”.
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The Relationship Between Infant Crying and Father Well-Being
<p>Infant excessive crying and fussing has been linked to adverse maternal outcomes such as increased depression and stress, and decreased feelings of parenting self-efficacy. Infant crying has also been identified as the number one trigger caregivers report prior to an abusive action, placing …
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Effects of Embodiment on Perceptual and Affective Responses to Infant Crying
… bodily states might be related to perceptions of infant vocalizations. In Study 1, participants were asked to hold a pencil between their lips, mimicking a smile, while listening to infant crying. Although there were no embodied effects for perceptual ratings, results indicated that this …
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Predicting Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood: The Impact of Maternal Well-Being, Infant Crying, and Dyadic Mutuality
… dyadic mutuality between the mother and infant may influence child emotion regulation capacity more than maternal behavior alone. To better understand the impact of maternal well-being and infant crying on the development of emotion regulation, parenting stress, maternal self-efficacy, …
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Exploration of parent perspectives and adaptation to shaken baby syndrome: An occupational therapy approach
… abuse. However, it is a preventable tragedy. Infant crying is the major precipitating factor that causes an adult to shake an infant or small child. The purpose of this research was to examine from an occupational therapy perspective current prevention strategies of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) …
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Exploration of parent perspectives and adaptation to shaken baby syndrome: An occupational therapy approach
… abuse. However, it is a preventable tragedy. Infant crying is the major precipitating factor that causes an adult to shake an infant or small child. The purpose of this research was to examine from an occupational therapy perspective current prevention strategies of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) …
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Examining the Role of Behavioral Inhibition in Harsh Parenting Preferences: An Analog Study
… addressed how parental stressors, specifically infant crying, can influence individuals’ self-regulatory cognitive capacities and ultimately their preference for harsh parenting strategies. Furthermore, little research has explored the link between these cognitive processes and harsh parenting …
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Do South African mothers shake their babies? incidence and risk factors for infant abuse in Cape Town
… highest reported under-five child mortality and infanticide rates worldwide. To determine whether infants under one-year are violently shaken, a cross-sectional study was conducted with 385 mothers and other primary female caregivers (ages 18 to 60 years; mean age = 27 years) from three high-risk …
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Electrophysiological, observed, and subjective emotional responses to infant vocalizations: the role of adult attachment
… and subjective emotional responding to infant distress and non-distress vocalizations. Results revealed that narrative-based adult attachment—as measured by the Attachment Script Assessment—was consistently associated with responding to infant distress. Individuals higher on secure base …
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Effects of a learned helplessness task and infant temperament on mothers' responsivity to infant cry sounds
… as a function of the perception of her own infants' temperament and exposure to varying degrees of control over infant crying was explored. Seventysix mothers were classified as having a difficult or easy infant based upon ratings of their infant on the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire. …
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Temporal organization of cry sounds: a comparison of cry rhythmicity in infants with and without colic
… durational components of naturally occurring infant cries was examined in 46 1-month-old infants, half of whom had been diagnosed as having colic. In a standard 90-sec crying bout for each infant, the presence or absence of expired cry sound was determined at .05-sec intervals. Binary spectrum …
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Maternal HPA Axis Function During Parenting is Associated with Reduced Brain Activation to Infant Cry and More Intrusive Parenting Behavior
… cortisol function and maternal brain response to infant stimuli are separately related to differences in parenting behavior. Evidence from animal models have demonstrated that chronically high cortisol concentration alters brain structure and function, suggesting that studying these two mechanisms …
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Detection by adults of differences in the duration of pauses in infant cries
Crying is the primary source of distal communication through which newborn and young infants’ needs are related to the caregiving environment and, as such, this social behavior is vital to the survival and development of the infant. Recently, a series of experimental studies has begun to isolate …
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Using Life-History Theory to Evaluate the Nighttime Parenting Strategies of First-Time Adolescent and Adult Mothers
… mothers are less well-prepared for nighttime infant care compared to more mature mothers. The second draws on evolutionary theory and suggests that nighttime parenting figures into the suite of behaviours that comprise parental investment, which varies depending on the life-history …