TY - JOUR
T1 - Infant emotion regulation
T2 - Relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament
AU - Kim, Bo Ram
AU - Stifter, Cynthia A.
AU - Philbrook, Lauren E.
AU - Teti, Douglas M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Albert M. Kligman Graduate Fellowship awarded to the first author, and a NIH grant ( R01-HD052809 ) awarded to the fourth author. We thank the families who participated in this study, and the graduate and undergraduate students for their assistance in data collection and coding.
PY - 2014/11
Y1 - 2014/11
N2 - The present study examines the influences of mothers' emotional availability toward their infants during bedtime, infant attachment security, and interactions between bedtime parenting and attachment with infant temperamental negative affectivity, on infants' emotion regulation strategy use at 12 and 18 months. Infants' emotion regulation strategies were assessed during a frustration task that required infants to regulate their emotions in the absence of parental support. Whereas emotional availability was not directly related to infants' emotion regulation strategies, infant attachment security had direct relations with infants' orienting toward the environment and tension reduction behaviors. Both maternal emotional availability and security of the mother-infant attachment relationship interacted with infant temperamental negative affectivity to predict two strategies that were less adaptive in regulating frustration.
AB - The present study examines the influences of mothers' emotional availability toward their infants during bedtime, infant attachment security, and interactions between bedtime parenting and attachment with infant temperamental negative affectivity, on infants' emotion regulation strategy use at 12 and 18 months. Infants' emotion regulation strategies were assessed during a frustration task that required infants to regulate their emotions in the absence of parental support. Whereas emotional availability was not directly related to infants' emotion regulation strategies, infant attachment security had direct relations with infants' orienting toward the environment and tension reduction behaviors. Both maternal emotional availability and security of the mother-infant attachment relationship interacted with infant temperamental negative affectivity to predict two strategies that were less adaptive in regulating frustration.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.06.006
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.06.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 24995668
AN - SCOPUS:84903737598
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 37
SP - 480
EP - 490
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 4
ER -