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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Infant temperament"”.
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Bridging the Attachment Transmission Gap with Maternal Mind-mindedness and Infant Temperament
… (from the Adult Attachment Interview) and infant attachment (in the Strange Situation), and (b) whether infant temperament moderates this model of attachment transmission. Eighty-four racially diverse, economically stressed mothers and their infants were assessed three times: newborn, 5, …
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Examining Associations Between Infant Temperament, Parental Competence, and Family Resources and Their Effects on Parental Sensitivity
… The combination of how these parent and infant factors predict parental sensitivity has not been examined with both mothers and fathers. The current study involved 30, 4-month old infants and their mothers and fathers. Parents completed questionnaires measuring infant temperament and …
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Developmental Origins of Infant Emotion Regulation: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Infant Temperament and Maternal Sensitivity
… study examined perinatal factors that impact infant emotion regulation (ER) development. Prenatal depression, generalized anxiety, pregnancy-specific anxiety (PSA), and diurnal cortisol levels were assessed in 256 pregnant women in early and late pregnancy. Infant temperamental negativity was …
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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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The Role of Infant Locomotor Onset in Shaping Mother-Infant Communication
This study examines the relation between infant locomotor onset and emotional communication during prohibition scenes. Forty-one infants were videotaped at home with their mothers when the infants were 6 and 8 months of age. At 6 months all infants were pre-locomotor. At 8 months 23 infants were …
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Influences Of Early Child Characteristics And Health On Later Parent And Parent-Child Relationship Factors
… aim of this study was to evaluate ways in which infant temperament and health difficulties influence maternal characteristics over the first three years as well as the mother child relationship. We used longitudinal data from 1364 families, collected as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care …
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Evaluation of a Multicomponent Oral Health Education Intervention in a Vulnerable Infant Population: A Mixed Methods Study
… vulnerable caregivers in the first year of their infant’s life. The study explored three engagement approaches: in-person (IP), a social messaging platform (two-way text messaging and/or a social messaging group) (SMP), or both (IP-SMP). The intervention supported a caregiver’s self-efficacy in …
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Factors affecting paternal adjustment during the transition to parenthood
… marital satisfaction, paternal stress, infant temperament, maternal marital satisfaction, maternal postpartum depression, the presence of external support and maternal change in employment status. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to identify which variables significantly …
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Continuity and Discontinuity in Parent -Infant Relationships: Parenting Behaviors Over the First Year of Life
… and fathers' parenting behaviors with their infants at 3.5 months and 1 year postpartum, and (2) contexts of continuity and discontinuity in mothers' and fathers' sensitivity to their infants from 3.5 months to 1 year. Mothers' and fathers' parenting behaviors were assessed at both 3.5 months …
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Infant-father attachment: Infant and father antecedents
… has been done examining the antecedents of infant-mother attachment, far less research has explored the antecedents of infant-father attachment. This study examines paternal and infant antecedents of infant-father attachment in the first year. One-hundred-twenty infant-father dyads …
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The Relationships Between Parenting Stress, Growth, and Development in Infants with Congenital Heart Defects During the First Six Months of Life
… time of diagnosis and hospitalization for their infant’s congenital heart defect (CHD) is well recognized by healthcare professionals. Increased parenting stress has been negatively correlated with development in low birthweight infants. The primary purpose of this study was to explore the …
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Behavioral entrainment of human milk-fed infants' sleep patterns
"To investigate whether infants who were exclusively breast-fed could be taught to sleep through the night (defined from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m.) from an early age, twenty- six first-time parents and their infants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: treatment and control. Treatment parents were …
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Parenting Beliefs During the Infant Year: Effects on Infant Growth
Rapid infant weight gain (RIWG) has been established as an infant predictor of adult diseases such as, coronary artery disease, hypertension, obesity, and diabetes type two. RIWG is well established in the literature with several key contributing factors, including infant feeding modality, …
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Linking child care to infant attachment : what lies in-between?
… in non-maternal child care and security of motherinfant attachment in early infancy. <br></br><br></br>Design: Prospective. Methods: The participants for this study were 67 mothers and their infants enrolled in a large scale prospective study. The first 100 women were sent a letter outlining the …
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Postpartum Fatigue in the Active Duty Military Woman
… depression, anxiety, maternal sleep, and infant temperament correlated with fatigue during hospitalization and at 2 weeks postpartum. Depression, anxiety, maternal sleep, and performance correlated with fatigue at 6–8 weeks postpartum. Regression analyses indicated that maternal anxiety …
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Breastfeeding Influencing Factors in Thai Adolescent Mothers
… as the optimal method for ensuring healthy infant nutrition. However, many adolescents remain unaware of the role of breastfeeding. Adolescent mothers continue to have the lowest rate of breastfeeding in many countries including Thailand, with only 17% of Thai adolescent mothers continuing …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Mothers' Use of Food to Soothe, Feeding Type and Mode, Maternal Feeding Style, Infant Behavior, and Infant Weight-Related Outcomes During Early Infancy
<p>Rapid infant weight gain (RWG) in the first six months postpartum is a strong predictor for obesity during childhood and adolescence. Although biological factors can influence infant weight gain trajectories, the modifiable factor of parent feeding practices can also have an influence. The use …
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