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A simplified method for measuring infant temperament.
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A questionnaire has been developed for assessing temperamental characteristics of babies in the 4 to 8 month range and has been initially standardized on 101 babies in a single private practice, determining the presence of the characteristics of the difficult baby syndrome.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Pediatrics.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Private practice.read more
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Measurement of Temperament in Infancy
TL;DR: RoTHBABT et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a caretaker-report instrument of the assessment of infant temperament, and longitudinal findmgs are reported Temperament dimensions were selected for mvestigation from the work of Thomas, Chess et al, Escalona, Diamond, and others.
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Gender differences in temperament: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The authors used meta-analytical techniques to estimate the magnitude of gender differences in mean level and variability of 35 dimensions and 3 factors of temperament in children ages 3 months to 13 years, finding moderate gender differences favoring girls, consistent with boys' greater incidence of externalizing disorders.
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Social support, infant temperament, and parenting self-efficacy: a mediational model of postpartum depression.
Carolyn E. Cutrona,Beth Troutman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model of maternal postpartum depression was tested in which difficult infant temperamental difficulty was construed as a stressor and supportive interpersonal relationships were interpreted as a protective resource.
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A prospective longitudinal study of attachment disorganization/disorientation.
TL;DR: Structural models suggest that disorganization may mediate the relations between early experience and later psychopathology and dissociation, as a pattern of adaptation constructed by individuals in their environments.
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A prospective longitudinal study of attachment disorganization/disorientation
TL;DR: In this paper, the antecedents and consequences of attachment disorganization from a prospective longitudinal perspective were explored, with 157 participants in the longitudinal study, finding that attachment disorder was correlated significantly with environmental antecedent (e.g., maternal relationship and risk status, caregiving quality, and infant history of maltreatment).
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Paroxysmal fussing in infancy, sometimes called "colic"
TL;DR: "Paroxysmal fussing" or "infantile colic" is possibly one of the earliest somatic responses to the presence of tension in the environment and the particular degree to which any infant reacts is probably determined by constitutional factors.