Erfassung des frühkindlichen Temperaments mit dem Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised

Vonderlin, Eva; Ropeter, Anna; Pauen, Sabina

doi:10.1024/1422-4917/a000187

Cited by 23 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Procedure and experimental design. Before the laboratory visit, families were sent the t-shirt (as described above) as well as a set of questionnaires, in particular the EPDS (Cox, Holden, & Sagovsky, 1987), the IBQ-R (Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003;Vonderlin, Ropeter, & Pauen, 2012), and a lab-internal questionnaire assessing demographic information as well as feeding and sleeping routines of the infant (One family, whose infant was assigned to the Stranger odor group, did not fill in the IBQ-R and the EPDS and is therefore not included in the control analyses with these two factors). After arriving in the laboratory, parents and infant were familiarized with the environment and parents were informed about the study and signed a consent form.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

Jessen

2019

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Maternal odor is known to play an important role in mother-infant-interaction in 1 many altricial species such as rodents. However, we only know very little about 2 its role in early human development. The present study therefore investigated the 3 impact of maternal odor on infant brain responses to threat signals. We recorded 4 the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal of seven-month-old infants watching 5 happy and fearful facial expressions. While infants in two control groups showed 6 the expected EEG fear response, this response was markedly absent in the group 7 exposed to their mother's odor. Thus, infants respond differently to fear signals in 8 the presence of their mother and the mother's odor is a sufficiently strong signal 9 to elicit this effect. Our data suggest that olfaction, a sensory modality that has 10 been largely neglected as a social signal in our own species, might function as a 11 crucial modulator in early social learning. 12

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

Jessen

2019

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Infant temperament was measured with the German version [43] of The Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised (IBQ-R) [30], a parent report on early child temperament at age 3-12 months (191 items, 8-point Likert scale) referring to child's behavior in concrete, daily situations and the frequency with which the behavior occurs. Child's temperament is averaged in three higher-level scores: surgency and extraversion, negative emotionality, and orienting and regulation.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postnatal Mother-to-Infant Attachment in Subclinically Depressed Mothers: Dyads at Risk?

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Dyadic interactions between children and depressed mothers have been characterized as less synchronous and with lower maternal sensitivity, fostering an inharmonious, insecure attachment relationship between mother and child. Thus, these children may experience enhanced early life stress and are at higher risk of disturbed socioemotional development. Recently, this association has also been found in women with mild depressive symptoms. However, potential confounding effects of mother's history of own rearing experiences or infant temperament on the link between depressive symptoms and postnatal mother-to-infant attachment have not yet been investigated. Methods: Differences in mother-to-infant attachment (e.g. quality of attachment, absence of hostility, and pleasure in interaction) between mothers with and without symptoms of depression 6-8 months postpartum were analyzed in a low-risk community sample (n = 38, 19 per group). Depressive symptomatology was measured with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS). Depressed mothers indicated mild-to-moderate depressive symptomatology (mean BDI-II 11.26 ± 3.86) but did not fulfill criteria for a major depressive episode and, thus, were referred to as ‘subclinically' depressed. Potential confounders, namely maternal history of own rearing experiences and infant temperament, were explored by multivariate AN(C)OVA. Results: Primiparous mothers with subclinical depression differed significantly from healthy control mothers, i.e. showed poorer mother-to-infant attachment and higher infant-related hostility 6-8 months postpartum. As expected, infant temperament and mother's history of own rearing experiences were both associated with mother-to-infant attachment but did not explain the negative effects of subclinical depression on the mother-infant relationship. Conclusions: Given the high prevalence of maternal depression, the current findings give reason for increased concern for the developing mother-child relationship. Therefore, early interventions are needed that focus on the mother-child dyad and target not only clinically but also subclinically depressed mothers.

show abstract

“…We utilized the mean score of the measurement across three timepoints ( r = .34–.41, p < .001), that is, when children were 7 (T1), 14 (T2), and 26 months (T3) old. With regard to children’s temperament, parents reported children’s Negative Affectivity—one dimension from the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised (Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003; Vonderlin et al, 2012)—on a 7-point scale ranging from 0 ( never ) to 6 ( always ) at T1, T2, and T3. We utilized the mean score of these measurements across the three timepoints ( r = .35–.45, p < .001), with higher scores indicating that children tended to react to stressors with a high degree of emotionality, including anger, irritability, fear, or sadness.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers’ language and social competence.

Huang¹,

Weinert²,

Maurice³

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Maternal sensitive parenting behavior has been shown to account, at least partially, for the relation between family background and children's language and behavioral outcomes. Yet, as previous studies often used a rather global or domain-general measure of maternal sensitivity, it remains an open question whether different domains of child development are influenced by the different facets of maternal sensitivity. Thus, this study investigated whether specific parenting behaviors differentially mediated the association between maternal education and children's language and social competence. Drawing on 2,478 mother-child dyads from the German National Educational Panel Study, we distinguished mothers' sensitive parenting behavior as cognitive-verbally stimulating and socioemotionally supportive parenting behaviors. These two observed specific parenting behaviors at 26 months were modeled as separate pathways linking maternal education and children's language outcomes at 26 months as well as children's social competence at 38 months. All analyses controlled for family net income, single parenthood, migration background, mother's depressive feelings, and child's negative affectivity. The results indicated that the mother's cognitive-verbally stimulating parenting behavior was specifically related to the children's language skills, whereas mother's socioemotionally supportive parenting behavior specifically predicted children's later social competence. Furthermore, these two separable parenting behaviors differentially mediated the association between maternal education and toddler's language and social competence. Most notably, children's language additionally mediated the relation between maternal education and children's social competence. The findings suggest that domain-specific intervention programs have the potential to promote early language and social development efficiently.

show abstract

Erfassung des frühkindlichen Temperaments mit dem Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

Maternal Odor Reduces the Neural Response to Fearful Faces in Human Infants

Postnatal Mother-to-Infant Attachment in Subclinically Depressed Mothers: Dyads at Risk?

Specific parenting behaviors link maternal education to toddlers’ language and social competence.

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About