Relations of Early Goal-Blockage Response and Gender to Subsequent Tantrum Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Sullivan, Margaret W.; Lewis, Michael
Titel	Relations of Early Goal-Blockage Response and Gender to Subsequent Tantrum Behavior
Quelle	In: Infancy, 17 (2012) 2, S.159-178 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00077.x
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Males; Infants; Mothers; Gender Differences; Child Behavior; Longitudinal Studies; Nonverbal Communication; Questionnaires; Age Differences; Goal Orientation; Rothbart Infant Behavior Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; Geschlechterkonflikt; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Fragebogen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung
Abstract	Infants and their mothers participated in a longitudinal study of the sequelae of infant goal-blockage responses. Four-month-old infants participated in a standard contingency learning and goal-blockage procedure during which anger and sad facial expressions to the blockage were coded. When infants were 12 and 20 months old, mothers completed a questionnaire about their children's tantrums. Tantrum scores increased with age and boys tended to show more tantrum behavior than girls. Anger expressed to goal blockage at 4 months was unrelated to tantrum behavior. There was a gender by sad expression interaction. Girls who expressed sadness in response to the goal blockage had lower total tantrum scores than boys; otherwise there was no difference. These results suggest that tantrums of infants who display sad, not anger expression, in response to goal blockage, are differentially influenced by children's gender. (Contains 3 tables, 3 figures and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10