Continuity and discontinuity in infant negative and positive emotionality: Family antecedents and attachment consequences.

Belsky, Jay; Fish, Margaret; Isabella, Russell A.

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“…Higher levels of child fear and irritability and lower levels of effortful control were related to higher initial levels of rejection and inconsistent discipline. These relations are consistent with the findings of previous studies that demonstrated relations between temperament and parenting (e.g., Bates et al, 1995;Belsky et al, 1991;Halverson & Deal, 2001;Kochanska et al, 2000;Malatesta & Haviland, 1986). However, when the mutual prediction of changes in temperament and parenting was examined, a more specific pattern emerged, and each temperament variable had a distinct pattern of relations with parenting.…”

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Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

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2006

Developmental Psychology

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The author examined relations among demographic risk (income, maternal education, singleparent status), growth in temperament (fear, irritability, effortful control), and parenting (rejection, inconsistent discipline) across 3 years and the prediction of children's adjustment problems in a community sample (N = 190; ages 8-12 years at Time 1). Family income was related to higher initial levels of fear, irritability, rejection, and inconsistency and lower effortful control but was not related to changes in these variables. Higher initial rejection predicted increases in child fear and irritability. Higher initial fear predicted decreases in rejection and inconsistency. Higher initial irritability predicted increases in inconsistency, and higher initial effortful control predicted decreases in rejection. When growth of parenting and temperament were considered simultaneously, increases in effortful control and decreases in fear and irritability predicted lower Time 3 internalizing and externalizing problems. Increases in rejection and inconsistent discipline predicted higher Time 3 externalizing, although sometimes the effect appeared to be indirect through temperament. The findings suggest that temperament and parenting predict changes in each other and predict adjustment during the transition to adolescence. Keywords demographic risk; temperament; parenting; adjustment problems; early adolescence Both parenting (Frick, 1994;Loeber & Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986; Maccoby & Martin, 1993) and temperament (Rothbart & Bates, 1998;Sanson, Hemphill, & Smart, 2004) are important predictors of children's adjustment, and their effects are additive, with each contributing unique variance above the other (e.g., Bates, Pettit, Dodge, & Ridge, 1998;Halpern, Garcia Coll, Meyer, & Bendersky, 2001;Rubin, Hastings, Chen, Stewart, & McNichol, 1998;Smith & Prior, 1995). Moreover, transactional models in which parenting and child characteristics are mutually influential have been suggested to explain the development of adjustment problems (e.g., Halpern et al., 2001;Maccoby, 1992;Reiss & Price, 1996;Rothbart & Bates, 1998;Sanson et al., 2004). However, few studies have examined the relations between temperament and parenting during the transition to adolescence using longitudinal, growth analyses. In fact, data on the development of temperament and NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript parenting during this transitional period are sparse (e.g., Conger, Lorenz, & Wickrama, 2004). This study examines changes in parenting and temperament as predictors of children's adjustment problems during middle childhood and early adolescence.Temperament is believed to play an important role in children's social and personality development and psychological adjustment Hartup & van Lieshout, 1995;Prior, 1992). It is thought to directly affect children's social, personality, and psychological development and influence or moderate key socialization experiences, such as parent-child relationships and stressful...

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Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

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“…Few investigators have directly addressed the problem of the infiuence of infant negative emotionality on the developing attachment relationship; the studies by Belsky, Fish, and Isabella (1991) and Crockenberg (1981) are notable exceptions. Second, few if any investigators have experimentally manipulated the aspect of behavior called maternal sensitivity, which in attachment theory is deemed crucial for the development of a secure attachment bond.…”

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The Influence of Temperament and Mothering on Attachment and Exploration: An Experimental Manipulation of Sensitive Responsiveness among Lower‐Class Mothers with Irritable Infants

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1994

Child Development

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infants selected on irritability shortly after birth and their mothers were randomly assigned to 2 intervention and 2 control groups to test the hypothesis that enhancing maternal sensitive responsiveness will improve quality of mother-infant interaction, infant exploration, and attachment. The intervention lasted 3 months and ended when the child was 9 months of age. When infants were 9 months of age, intervention group mothers were significantly more responsive, stimulating, visually attentive, and controlling of their infant's behavior than control group mothers. Intervention infants had higher scores than control infants on sociability, self-soothing, and exploration, and they cried less. Quality of exploration also improved, with intervention infants engaged in cognitively sophisticated kinds of exploration more than control infants. At 12 months of age, significantly more intervention group dyads were securely attached than control group dyads.Over the last 15 years, researchers have attachments have been identified. The presdemonstiated that insecurely attached in-ent study is an intervention study conceptufants function less well than their securely ally linked to attachment theory, attached peers on a variety of tasks during their toddler, preschool, and beginning According to attachment theory, differschool years. Insecurely attached youngsters ences in attachment as assessed in the appear less effective in interpersonal rela-Strange Situation are related

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“…The development of secure attachment, which can act as a basic protective system, is considered an indicator of a satisfactory interaction throughout the first year of life (Belsky, Fish & Isabella, 1991;Cerezo, Trenado & Pons-Salvador, 2012). According to various studies carried out in the United States and Europe, in the non-clinical population the percentage of children with secure attachment is 67 %, while 33 % have insecure attachment (Brisen, 2002 for a review).…”

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Título: Efecto de la dosis de intervención del Programa de Apoyo Psicoló-gico P/Materno Infantil © sobre las madres y sus bebés. Resumen: Se analizan los efectos de la dosis de intervención del Programa de Apoyo Psicológico P/Materno Infantil © (Cerezo 1992). Es un Programa dirigido a toda la población, que apoya a los padres durante los primeros 18 meses de vida del bebé, cuyo objetivo es promover sistemas adaptativos protectores en los niños. Los efectos de la dosis de intervención se evalúan sobre las madres, en sus niveles de distrés o malestar psicológico informado por ellas, y sobre sus bebés, en el tipo de apego que desarrollan evaluado con la "Situación Extraña" de Ainsworth y colaboradores (1978). La muestra son 342 familias que acuden al Programa entre 2 y 4 visitas antes de la evaluación post-intervención. Los resultados indican que se requieren al menos 3 sesiones de intervención para que se produzcan descensos significativos de las puntuaciones que obtienen las madres en distrés entre la evaluación pre y post. La proporción de niños con apego seguro es mayor cuando la familia acude 3 ó 4 visitas que cuando acude 2. También, se observa que las madres de niños con apego inseguro tienen puntuaciones más altas en distrés, y en otros factores que afectan la parentalidad, que las madres de niños con apego seguro. Palabras clave: Evaluación Programa de Apoyo Psicológico P/Materno Infantil (PAPMI); efecto de la dosis de intervención; prevención de conflictos familiares y de maltrato infantil. Abstract:This paper presents an analysis of the intervention dose-effect of the Parent Child Psychological Support Program © (Cerezo 1990) a program aimed at promoting protective adaptive system in children which is offered to all new-borns in a given catchment area. The program offers support to parents during the first 18 months of the baby"s life. The program doseeffect is examined regarding the parents by examining the level of distress reported by them and with babies by examining the development of attachment using the Strange Situation test of Ainsworth et al. (1978). The study is based on 342 families who made between 2 and 4 visits to the Program before being evaluation post-intervention. The results indicate that at least 3 program sessions are required to produce a significant decrease in the distress scores for mothers, between pre and post evaluation. The proportion of children with secure attachment is greater when the family attends 3 or 4 times, compared to those who attend on 2 occasions. It was also noted that mothers of children with insecure attachment had higher scores on the maternal distress and other factors affecting parenting than mothers of children with secure attachment.

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Continuity and discontinuity in infant negative and positive emotionality: Family antecedents and attachment consequences.

Cited by 208 publications

References 59 publications

Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

Growth in temperament and parenting as predictors of adjustment during children's transition to adolescence.

The Influence of Temperament and Mothering on Attachment and Exploration: An Experimental Manipulation of Sensitive Responsiveness among Lower‐Class Mothers with Irritable Infants

Efecto de la dosis de intervención del Programa de Apoyo Psicológico P/Materno Infantil© sobre las madres y sus bebés.

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