A cross-cultural study of infant temperament: Predicting preschool effortful control in the United States of America and Russia

Gartstein, Maria A.; Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Putnam, Samuel P.; Kinsht, Irina A.

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“…Surgency includes components of both positive affectivity and high activity level, and has been implicated both as a risk and protective factor for regulation (Gartstein, Slobodskaya, Putnam, & Kinsht, 2009; Rothbart, et al, 1992). The high levels of intensity associated with surgency may exaggerate expressions of negativity (Rothbart, Derryberry, & Hershey, 2000), but the positive affect associated with surgency may promote positive infant-caregiver interactions that facilitate caregiver responsiveness (Molfese, et al, 2010).…”

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Maternal prenatal stress and infant regulatory capacity in Mexican Americans

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Infant Behavior and Development

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The early postpartum period lays important groundwork for later self-regulation as infants' dispositional traits interact with caregivers' co-regulatory behaviors to produce the earliest forms of self-regulation. Although emerging literature suggests that fetal exposure to maternal stress may be integral in determining child self-regulatory capacity, the complex pathways that characterize these early developmental processes remain unclear. The current study considers these complex, transactional processes in a low income, Mexican American sample. Data were collected from 295 Mexican American infants and their mothers during prenatal, 6- and 12-week postpartum home interviews. Mother reports of stress were obtained prenatally, and mother reports of infant temperament were obtained at 6 weeks. Observer ratings of maternal sensitivity and infant regulatory behaviors were obtained at the 6- and 12-week time points. Study results indicate that prenatal stress predicts higher levels of infant negativity and surgency, both of which directly or interactively predict later engagement in regulatory behaviors. Unexpectedly, prenatal stress also predicted more engagement in orienting, but not self-comforting behaviors. Advancing understandings about the nature of these developmental pathways may have significant implications for targets of early intervention in this high risk population.

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Maternal prenatal stress and infant regulatory capacity in Mexican Americans

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Luecken

et al. 2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…The revision was aimed at evaluating a wider range of temperamental dimensions by providing 14 subscales from which three overarching factors typically emerge: Surgency (approach, vocal reactivity, high intensity pleasure, smiling and laughter, activity level, and perceptual sensitivity), Negative Affectivity (sadness, distress to limitations, fear, and low falling reactivity), and Orienting/Regulatory Capacity (low intensity pleasure, cuddliness, duration of orienting, and soothability). To date, reliability and validity of the questionnaire have been supported in Gartstein and Rothbart's work (2003), in cross-cultural studies comparing US and Russian infants' temperament (Gartstein, Peleg, Young, & Slobodskaya, 2009;Gartstein, Slobodskaya, & Kinsht, 2003;Gartstein, Slobodskaya, Putnam, & Kinsht, 2009), in longitudinal research predicting preschool temperament and toddler behavior problems (Putnam, Rothbart, & Gartstein, 2008;Gartstein et al, 2010), and in recent investigations of convergent validity of the IBQ-R in relation to observation-based indices of temperament (Gartstein & Marmion, 2008;Parade & Leerkes, 2008).…”

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Studying cross-cultural differences in temperament in the first year of life: United States and Italy

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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An Italian translation of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised (IBQ-R) was developed and evaluated with 110 infants, demonstrating satisfactory internal consistency, discriminant validity, and construct validity in the form of gender and age differences, as well as factorial integrity. Cross-cultural differences were subsequently evaluated for matched samples of Italian and United States (US) (N ¼ 110) 3-12-month-olds. Across infancy, parents of US infants reported higher levels of activity, high and low intensity pleasure, and vocal reactivity, whereas Italian infants, particularly males, were rated higher on cuddliness. In early infancy only, US infants were viewed as higher on high intensity pleasure and perceptual sensitivity.

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“…Rothbart and Ahadi () suggested that early‐developing attentional persistence may reflect self‐regulatory systems that “can [effortfully] assert control over other temperament systems” (p. 57). As early as infancy, attention‐based abilities to orient and regulate behavior were associated with increased effortful control (Gartstein, Slobodskaya, Putnam, & Kinsht, ) and self‐regulation (Vaughan Van Hecke et al., ) in toddlerhood, demonstrating the contribution of attentional processes to the development of self‐regulatory abilities. These results suggest a positive association between attentional control and self‐restraint.…”

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A Longitudinal and Multidimensional Examination of the Associations Between Temperament and Self‐Restraint During Toddlerhood

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Developing self‐restraint, or the inhibition of behavior in response to a prohibition, is an important process during toddlerhood. The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of individual differences in the development of self‐restraint during toddlerhood by examining stable elements and growth of temperament (i.e., attentional control, behavioral inhibition, negative emotionality), general intelligence, and self‐restraint. Participants were 412 same‐sex twin pairs (approximately 90% European American) from predominately middle‐class households in Colorado. Data were collected at 14, 20, 24, and 36 months. Results indicated that higher behavioral inhibition, attentional control, and intelligence were independently associated with better self‐restraint, whereas higher negative emotionality was an independent predictor of lower self‐restraint. The associations between temperament and self‐restraint generally appeared to be stable from 14 to 36 months.

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A cross-cultural study of infant temperament: Predicting preschool effortful control in the United States of America and Russia

Cited by 30 publications

References 46 publications

Maternal prenatal stress and infant regulatory capacity in Mexican Americans

Maternal prenatal stress and infant regulatory capacity in Mexican Americans

Studying cross-cultural differences in temperament in the first year of life: United States and Italy

A Longitudinal and Multidimensional Examination of the Associations Between Temperament and Self‐Restraint During Toddlerhood

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