title: Infants with colic: their childhood characteristics.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare 40 six- to eight-year-old children, 20 with prospectively ascertained infantile colic and a matched sample of 20 without colic, on characteristics of emotional regulation and on parent stress. Children completed tests of cognitive ability, and mothers completed childhood behavioral questionnaires and a parenting stress assessment. Children with colic had maternal ratings suggestive of more difficulty with emotional regulation than their noncolic matches and displayed a more impulsive cognitive style. However, the mean scores of both groups were in the normal range.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver 80262, USA.
authors.forename: Madalynn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neu
authors.forename: JoAnn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003085:Colic / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012016:Reference Values; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013694:Temperament