Stability and correlates of change of early temperament in preterm and full-term infants

Coll, Cynthia T. Garcia; Halpern, Leslie F.; Vohr, Betty R.; Seifer, Ronald; Oh, William

doi:10.1016/0163-6383(92)80020-u

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“…Premature children have also been found to have more temper tantrums at 3-4 years of age (Minde et al, 1989;Prior et al, 1989). Other researchers have reported no differences in neither positive nor negative mood (Crnic et al, 1983;Garcia Coll et al, 1992;Plunkett et al, 1989;Prior et al, 1989;Roth et al, 1984;Schraeder & Medoff Cooper, 1983;Van Beek et al, 1994;Watt, 1987;Wiener et al, 1965). These studies, which cover infancy as well as early childhood, support our results of no observed differences between premature and normally developing children with respect to the temperament dimensions tapping mood (anger, soothability, fear, high intensity pleasure, low intensity pleasure, sadness or smiling and laughter).…”

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Temperament in children with Down syndrome and in prematurely born children

Nygaard

Smith

Torgersen

2002

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Parents of three groups of children completed the Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ). Participants were children with Down syndrome aged 4-11 years (n = 55), prematurely born children aged 5 years (n = 97), and a group of normally developing kindergarten children 5-7 years of age (n = 91). Mean levels and factor structures on the CBQ were compared between the three groups. The children with Down syndrome had less attentional focusing and expressed less inhibitory control and less sadness than the normally developing children. There were also group differences in temperament structures, especially a clearer emotional factor of "surgency" among the children with Down syndrome. The only significant difference in mean temperament scores between the premature children and the control group was that the former evinced less attentional focussing. The temperament structures in the Norwegian samples were very similar to those reported in earlier studies, conducted in China and the US.

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Temperament in children with Down syndrome and in prematurely born children

Nygaard

Smith

Torgersen

2002

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…These results are consistent with the generally similar stability of temperament in girls and boys (with some exceptions: Bornstein et al, 2015; Garcia Coll et al, 1992), in the only studies (to our knowledge), examining child sex as a moderator. However, any discrepancy, or instance of disagreement with respect to differences between girls’ and boys’ temperament stability, could represent a cultural difference, wherein South Korean female and male infants demonstrate stability across different attributes than their U.S. counterparts.…”

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“…Studies of infant temperament that considered child sex as a moderator suggest generally similar stability in girls and boys (with some differentiation by dimension; Bornstein et al, 2015; Garcia Coll et al, 1992). At the same time, biological differences between infant girls and boys are compounded by differential treatment they receive from caregivers (Bornstein, 2013).…”

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Stability of temperament in South Korean infants from 6 to 12 to 18 months: Moderation by age, gender, and birth order

Gartstein

Putnick

Kwak

et al. 2015

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…Four of the mediating variables chosen had been identified in previous research as potentially relevant to individual differences in neonatal temperament. These variables included neonatal state (Sameroff, Krafchuck, & Bakow, 1978), birth weight (Garcia-Coll, Halpern, Vohr, Seifer, & Oh, 1992;Riese, 1994;Sajaniemi, Salokorpi, & vonWendt, 1998), maternal medication during delivery (Lester, Als, & Brazelton, True directionality of relation reversed due to log transformation of activity in the structured laboratory assessment (low score means high activity) and alertness in the unstructured home assessment (low score means high alertness) or to reverse coding of soothability group (low score means high soothability).…”

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Relation of neonatal iron status to individual variability in neonatal temperament

Wachs

Pollitt

Cueto

et al. 2005

Developmental Psychobiology

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The relation between indices of neonatal iron status and individual differences in neonatal temperament were investigated in a sample of 148 low-income Peruvian women and their newborn infants. Using cord blood, at birth we obtained measures of neonatal ferritin, serum iron, and hemoglobin. While neonates were still in the hospital, their behavior during a structured anthropometry examination was videotaped and subsequently coded on four temperament dimensions: activity level, negative emotionality, alertness, and soothability. The same dimensions were coded using a videotape obtained during a subsequent visit to the neonates' homes. Results indicated that lower levels of neonatal hemoglobin and serum iron were related to higher levels of negative emotionality and to lower levels of alertness and soothability. A similar pattern was found for ferritin, but only for females. For the most part, relations between neonatal iron measures and neonatal temperament were linear, operating across the full range of iron values. Our pattern of iron-temperament results could not be attributed to variation in family demographics, low birth weight, gestational age, maternal dietary intake, or markers of neonatal illness and maternal diabetes. Our findings are consistent with prior research with older infants relating iron deficiency to temperament. These results support the importance of increased research on the early functional-behavioral consequences of individual differences in iron status as well as on the mechanisms that underlie such consequences.

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Stability and correlates of change of early temperament in preterm and full-term infants

Cited by 53 publications

References 40 publications

Temperament in children with Down syndrome and in prematurely born children

Temperament in children with Down syndrome and in prematurely born children

Stability of temperament in South Korean infants from 6 to 12 to 18 months: Moderation by age, gender, and birth order

Relation of neonatal iron status to individual variability in neonatal temperament

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