More Than Meets the Eye: Parental and Infant Contributors to Maternal and Paternal Reports of Early Infant Difficultness

作者: Lara D. Atella , Janet A. DiPietro , Barbara A. Smith , Ian St James-Roberts

DOI: 10.1207/S15327922PAR0304_1

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摘要: Objectives. This study examined correspondences among maternal and paternal ratings of infant temperament, parental psychological functioning, behavior. Design. Participants included 120 families. When infants were 6 weeks old, mothers fathers completed the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ); reported on their own levels anxiety, depressive symptoms, parenting stress; a 3-day diary infants' irritability was assessed in laboratory situation. Results. Fathers rated temperament somewhat more negatively, but there significant correspondence between factors fussiness, unadaptability, dullness, difficultness composite. Higher consistently associated with stress. behavioral as measured by diaries, significantly correlated both parents observed labo...

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