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Infant temperament, pleasure in parenting, and marital happiness in adoptive families

✍ Scribed by Leslie D. Leve; Laura V. Scaramella; Beverly I. Fagot

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 186 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0163-9641
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.1017

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Temperamental characteristics have been related to later externalizing and internalizing behavioral outcomes. To assess the relationship between temperament and the early family environment, we measured infant temperament, pleasure in parenting, and marital happiness via parent report in 99 families with a nonrelative adoptive infant. Perceptions of child temperament were assessed using two subscales of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ; Rothbart, 1981). Mothers and fathers who rated their adoptive child as showing more Distress to Limitations (on the IBQ) reported less pleasure in routine parenting activities; this effect was mediated by marital happiness for fathers. Mothers reported less pleasure in parenting with infants perceived to be more temperamentally fearful (on the IBQ). The bidirectional relationship between temperamental characteristics and pleasure in parenting is discussed. © 2001 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

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