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INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 117-122Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.10.005
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Infant; Crying; Maternal responses; Maternal behavior
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This study evaluated physiological, affective, and perceptual factors hypothesized to predict how quickly 45 primiparous mothers of 7-9-month-old infants would respond to non-distressed infant crying. Aversiveness ratings of the non-distressed cries of one's own infant and physiological reactivity to one's own infant crying accounted for a significant amount of the variance in a Cox proportional hazards regression analysis of speed of response. These findings suggest that mothers who have strong affective and physiological responses to non-distressed infant cries may be more likely to respond indiscriminately to attention-seeking infant behaviors. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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