Establishing the Measurement Invariance of the Very Short Form of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised for Mothers Who Vary on Race and Poverty Status

Leerkes, Esther M.; Su, Jinni; Reboussin, Beth A.; Daniel, Stephanie S.; Payne, Chris; Grzywacz, Joseph G.

doi:10.1080/00223891.2016.1185612

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“…For example, items from the IBQ-R VSF SUR scale were taken from longer scales measuring activity level, smiling and laughter, high intensity pleasure, perceptual sensitivity, and approach, and the modified CFA model allowed correlated errors for items from activity level, smiling, and laughter, etc. Although modification indices suggested additional correlated errors, Leerkes et al (2017) did not allow additional correlations on these bases. As previous research (e.g., Gartstein & Rothbart, 2003; Rothbart et al, 2001) typically demonstrates correlations between factors, these were allowed in the base and error-correlated models.…”

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confidence: 91%

The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations.

Putnam,

Sehic,

French

et al. 2024

Developmental Psychology

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Data from 83,423 parent reports of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulatory capacity) in infants, toddlers, and children from 341 samples gathered in 59 countries were used to investigate the relations among culture, gender, and temperament. Between-nation differences in temperament were larger than those obtained in similar studies of adult personality, and most pronounced for negative affectivity. Nationlevel patterns of negative affectivity were consistent across infancy, toddlerhood, and childhood, and patterns of regulatory capacity were consistent between infancy and toddlerhood. Nations that previously reported high extraversion, high conscientiousness, and low neuroticism in adults were found to demonstrate high surgency in infants and children, and countries reporting low adult openness and high adult neuroticism reported high temperamental negative affectivity. Negative affectivity was high in Southern Asia, Western Asia, and South America and low in Northern and Western Europe. Countries in which children were rated as high in negative affectivity had cultural orientations reflecting collectivism, high power distance, and short-term orientation. Surgency was high in Southeastern and Southern Asia and Southern Europe and low in Eastern Asian countries characterized by philosophies of long-term orientation. Low personal income was associated with high negative affectivity. Gender differences in temperament were largely consistent in direction with prior studies, revealing higher regulatory capacity in females than males and higher surgency in males than females, with these differences becoming more pronounced at later ages. Public Significance StatementThis study is the largest existing effort (59 nations and 83,423 parent reports) to document and understand between-nation differences in the social and emotional behaviors of infants and young children. The results suggest that children in collectivist nations of South America and Southern Asia expressed more negative emotions than those from Northern and Western Europe. Gender differences were relatively consistent across nations and grew stronger with increasing age.

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confidence: 91%

The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations.

Putnam,

Sehic,

French

et al. 2024

Developmental Psychology

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“…Differences in findings between orienting/regulation versus negative affect and positive affect/surgency may be related to interactions amongst temperament traits. Regulation includes the capacity to modulate emotional affect and reactivity, and psychometric studies of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire have shown an inverse relationship between orienting/regulation and negative affect (Castro Dias et al, 2021;Leerkes et al, 2017). Thus, infants of mothers with higher posttraumatic stress symptoms and higher orienting/regulation capacity may also exhibit patterns of lower negative affect and reactivity.…”

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“…Each subscale demonstrated adequate internal consistency (Cronbach's alphas were as follows: PAS = .73, NEG = .80, ORC = .79). In prior research, the IBQ-VSF has demonstrated adequate test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and interrater agreement (Putnam et al, 2014) and established reliability in samples that vary on race and socioeconomic status (Leerkes et al, 2017).…”

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Maternal mental health mediates the effect of prenatal stress on infant temperament: The Harvey Mom Study

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Prenatal maternal stress and mental health problems are known to increase risk for developmental psychopathology in offspring, yet pathways leading to risk or resiliency are poorly understood. In a quasi-experimental design, we prospectively examined associations between disaster-related prenatal stress, maternal mental health symptoms, and infant temperament outcomes. Mothers who were pregnant during Hurricane Harvey (N = 527) reported on objective hardships (e.g., loss of belongings or income, evacuation, home flooding) related to the storm and subsequent mental health symptoms (anxiety/depression, posttraumatic stress) across time. At a postpartum assessment, mothers reported on their infant’s temperament (negative affect, positive affect, orienting/regulatory capacity). Greater objective hardship indirectly predicted higher levels of infant orienting/regulatory capacity through its association with increased maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms. Greater objective hardship also indirectly predicted higher levels of infant negative affect through its association with increased maternal anxiety/depression symptoms across time. Our findings suggest a psychological mechanism linking prenatal stress with specific temperamental characteristics via maternal mental health symptoms. Findings point to the importance of high-quality assessment and mental health services for vulnerable women and young children.

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“…The Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Very Short Form (IBQ-R VSF) was used to assess infant negative affect. Psychometric properties of the negative affect scale have been examined with racially and economically diverse samples and are adequate (Leerkes et al, 2017).…”

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Depressed and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Mothers’ Progression Into a Randomized Controlled Mobile Mental Health and Parenting Intervention: A Descriptive Examination Prior to and During COVID-19

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Infants of low-income and depressed mothers are at high risk for poor developmental outcomes. Early parenting mediates infant experiences from birth, and early intervention can support sensitive and responsive parent practices that optimize infant outcomes via promoting developmental competencies. However, low-income and depressed mothers experience substantial challenges to participating in early intervention. They also have extremely limited access to interventions targeting depression. Interventions targeting maternal depression and parent practices can improve maternal and infant outcomes. Mobile internet-based interventions overcome numerous barriers that low-resource mothers face in accessing home-based interventions. Pandemic-related stressors likely reduce family resources and exacerbate distress of already heavily-burdened mother-infant dyads. During crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence-based remote coaching interventions are paramount. This article reports on a mobile intervention for improving maternal mood and increasing parent practices that promote infant development. An ongoing randomized controlled trial study provided a unique opportunity to monitor progression from referral to intervention initiation between two groups of depressed mothers: those prior to the pandemic and during the pandemic. The study also examines mother and infant characteristics at baseline. The sample consisted primarily of Black mothers experiencing extreme poverty who self-referred to the study in a large southern city, which is one of the most income disparate in the United States. Prior to the pandemic, 97% of study participants successfully progressed from consent to intervention, as compared to significantly fewer–86%–during the pandemic. Mother-infant dyads during COVID-19, as compared to those prior to COVID-19, displayed similar pre-intervention demographic characteristics and intrapersonal characteristics.

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Establishing the Measurement Invariance of the Very Short Form of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised for Mothers Who Vary on Race and Poverty Status

Cited by 14 publications

References 49 publications

The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations.

The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers, and children from 59 nations.

Maternal mental health mediates the effect of prenatal stress on infant temperament: The Harvey Mom Study

Depressed and Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Mothers’ Progression Into a Randomized Controlled Mobile Mental Health and Parenting Intervention: A Descriptive Examination Prior to and During COVID-19

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