Temperament Is Associated with the Use of Communicative Gestures in Infancy

Autor/inn/en	Ollas, Denise; Rautakoski, Pirkko; Nolvi, Saara; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea
Titel	Temperament Is Associated with the Use of Communicative Gestures in Infancy
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 29 (2020) 3, (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ollas, Denise)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.2166
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Infants; Correlation; Nonverbal Communication; Receptive Language; Vocabulary; Expressive Language; Emotional Response; Communication Skills; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Korrelation; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Wortschatz; Emotionales Verhalten; Kommunikationsstil; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Temperament is important to consider when investigating factors influencing communicative development in infancy. Existing research supporting the assumption that temperament and verbal language development are interrelated covers mainly verbal development in toddlerhood onward, but few studies focus on these relations in infancy. The present study of 91 infants from a general population pregnancy cohort in Finland used parent reports to investigate associations between temperament and the development of preverbal gesturing and receptive vocabulary in infancy. We found that infant temperament explained a substantially larger proportion of the variance in expressive communicative gesturing compared to receptive vocabulary. High Duration of "orienting" and "Soothability," indicators of orienting/regulation capacity, and higher positive emotionality were found to be favourable for the use of communicative gestures. These temperament characteristics might promote interaction and thus advance communicative development. Knowledge on associations between infant temperament and communicative development is important in supporting outcomes in children with temperament characteristics possibly less favourable for communication development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01