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DEVELOPING PERCEPTIONS OF TEMPERAMENT AND THEIR CHILDREN TO MOTHER AND INFANT BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Zeanah Charles H.,
Keener Marcia A.,
Anders Thomas F.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00637.x
Subject(s) - psychology , temperament , developmental psychology , perception , infant development , personality , social psychology , neuroscience
Controversies about temperamental assessments raise questions about whether questionnaires, which assess parental perceptions of temperament, validly measure within‐child characteristics. Thirty‐eight couples were recruited from childbirth classes for a short‐term longitudinal study. Mother's perceptions of activity, rhythmicity and mood were moderately stable from late pregnancy to 6 mth postnatally. Only father's perceptions of activity were stable during this time. Infants rated by parents as difficult on the Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaire at 6 mth were rated by observers as less responsive while being fed by their mothers. Results are discussed in the context of influences on parental perceptions of temperament.