title: Conditions of continuity and discontinuity in infant negative emotionality: newborn to five months.
abstract: This study investigated infant and caregiving-environment variables associated with continuity and discontinuity in infant negative emotionality between the newborn period and 5 months of age. Comparisons were made between groups of infants who evidenced similar levels of crying as neonates but differed by 5 months of age. For initially high-crying infants, mother personality traits, marital quality, and infant variables measured neonatally discriminated stable from changing infants. Ratings of mother sensitivity and infant responsiveness made at 5 months of age also related to continuity and discontinuity in negative emotionality over the first 5 months.
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fish
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Stifter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belsky
mesh_terms: D001143:Arousal; D003448:Crying; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000523:psychology*; D007508:Irritable Mood; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013694:Temperament