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Mothers' interactions with temperamentally frustrated infants

✍ Scribed by Susan D. Calkins; Anne Hungerford; Susan E. Dedmon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
218 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A sample of 162 six‐month‐old infants was selected from a larger sample of 346 infants on the basis of mothers' report of their infants' temperament and a laboratory assessment of temperament. Infants were classified as easily frustrated or less frustrated and observed in several types of interactions with their mothers in the laboratory. Mothers completed several measures that indicated their level of parenting stress, psychological functioning, and marital adjustment. Maternal behavior with infants was coded along the dimensions of sensitivity, intrusiveness, and physical stimulation. Results indicated that maternal intrusiveness was related to infant temperament and that maternal physical stimulation was predicted by an interaction of infant temperament and mothers' perceived parenting stress. Implications of these findings for mother–infant interaction and subsequent child adjustment are discussed. ©2004 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

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