Relationships between regulatory temperament dimensions and self-regulatory behaviors at 4 and 6 months of age |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 115 Health & Human Development Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA;2. Departments of Psychology and Communication, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 120, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;2. Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario, CA;3. Florida International University-Banyan Research Institute on Dissemination, Grants, & Evaluation, Miami, FL, USA |
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| Abstract: | The present study focused on relationships between temperament and behavior in early regulation development. Unlike most studies on the topic, we observed infant behavior in a naturalistic playful situation rather than in experimental stressful procedure, and employed temperament measures uniquely reflecting regulatory dispositions rather than a global measure of reactivity. The infant's self-regulatory behaviors were observed at 4 and 6 months during face-to-face interactions and regulatory dimensions were assessed at 4 months. We found that low intensity pleasure and soothability dimensions, related to the infant physical and social experience, respectively, significantly affected regulatory behavior and their influence showed to depend on the infant's age, with the former dimension being influential at the earlier age and the latter being influential when the behavior was observed at the later age. Results are interpreted on the light of a dynamic view of regulation development. |
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| Keywords: | Regulatory functioning development Temperament–behavior relationships Early dyadic interactions |
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