Infant Predictors of Behavioural Inhibition

Autor/inn/en	Moehler, Eva; Kagan, Jerome; Oelkers-Ax, Rieke; Brunner, Romuald; Poustka, Luise; Haffner, Johann; Resch, Franz
Titel	Infant Predictors of Behavioural Inhibition
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26 (2008) 1, S.145-150 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1348/026151007X206767
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Crying; Infants; Inhibition; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Child Behavior; Predictor Variables; Young Children; Personality Traits; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Weinen; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Hemmung; Angst; Prädiktor; Frühe Kindheit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	Behavioural inhibition in the second year of life is a hypothesized predictor for shyness, social anxiety and depression in later childhood, adolescence and even adulthood. To search for the earliest indicators of this fundamental temperamental trait, this study examined whether behavioural characteristics in early infancy can predict behavioural inhibition, as previously postulated. The results show that infant crying to unfamiliar stimuli at 4 months of age is a significant predictor (p=0.002) of behavioural inhibition in the second year of life. These data implicate the possibility of measuring a temperamental anxiety disposition at a very young age simply by assessing crying in the face of novel stimuli. (As Provided).
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