title: Infant emotion regulation: relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament.
abstract: The present study examines the influences of mothers' emotional availability toward their infants during bedtime, infant attachment security, and interactions between bedtime parenting and attachment with infant temperamental negative affectivity, on infants' emotion regulation strategy use at 12 and 18 months. Infants' emotion regulation strategies were assessed during a frustration task that required infants to regulate their emotions in the absence of parental support. Whereas emotional availability was not directly related to infants' emotion regulation strategies, infant attachment security had direct relations with infants' orienting toward the environment and tension reduction behaviors. Both maternal emotional availability and security of the mother-infant attachment relationship interacted with infant temperamental negative affectivity to predict two strategies that were less adaptive in regulating frustration.
authors.affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, United States. Electronic address: bkim317@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Bo-Ram
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, United States.
authors.forename: Cynthia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Stifter
authors.affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, United States.
authors.forename: Lauren E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Philbrook
authors.affiliation: Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, United States.
authors.forename: Douglas M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Teti
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013694:Temperament / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Attachment security; Emotion regulation; Infant temperament; Maternal emotional availability