Infant affect and affect regulation during the still-face paradigm with mothers and fathers

This laboratory study examined mothers' and fathers' sensitivity during face-to-face interactions with their infants as well as infants' affective and regulatory responses during mother-infant versus father-infant still face (SF). The degree to which infant gender and temperament as well as parental sensitivity predicted SF responses was also examined. Participants included 94 healthy, primarily White, middle-class 4-month-olds and their parents. Results indicated that mothers and fathers were equally sensitive toward their infants. Infants' affect and regulatory behaviors were also significantly stable across mother- and father-infant SF situations, although several differences in mean levels of regulation emerged. Finally, the extent to which exogenous and endogenous variables predicted infant SF responses differed as a function of which affect or regulatory variable was being examined and with which parent the infant was experiencing SF.

Affect (linguistics · Developmental psychology · Face (sociological concept · Infant development · Maternal sensitivity · Personality · Temperament · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Communication · Early Childhood Education and Development · Infant Health and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology

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