Family dynamics as predictors of infant disposition

In this longitudinal study of mothers, their families, and their infants, both discriminant and regression analyses showed that prenatal reports of family dynamics predicted infant disposition at 8 months with considerable accuracy. The most important predictive component was organization and consistency within the family unit as well as the dependability of other family members. Possible mechanisms by which family dynamics might affect the infant's developing disposition are discussed.

Affect (linguistics) · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Dependability · Developmental psychology · Disposition · Dynamics (music) · Artificial Intelligence · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Computer Science · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology

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  Open Access•Margaret McGrath, C F Zachariah Boukydis et al.•Infant Mental Health Journal•1993

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• Cross‐national comparison of family dynamics during the third trimester of pregnancy in the United States and Iceland

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• Transmission of Risk Factors across Three Generations

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• Transmission of Risk Factors Across Three Generations

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• Families of the slums

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• The Black family in modern society

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• Cycles of disadvantage

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• Families and Family Therapy

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• Young Children's Responses to Expressions of Anger and Affection by Others in the Family

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• Revision of the Infant Temperament Questionnaire

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• Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems

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• The Ecology of Human Development

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• Subjectivity in parent-infant relationships

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• Children's dispositions and mother–child interaction at 12 and 18 months

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• Maternal characteristics measured prenatally are predictive of ratings of temperamental "difficulty" on the Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaire

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• Interparental conflict and the children of discord and divorce

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• Healthy Family Systems

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