NDLI: Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 37 Issue: 1)

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Differences in practices of body stimulation during the first 3 months: ethnotheories and behaviors of Italian mothers and West African immigrant mothers.

The relationship between motor development, gestures and language production in the second year of life: a mediational analysis.

Tolerance of geometric distortions in infant's face recognition.

An integrative model of rational imitation in infancy.

Happy babies, chatty toddlers: infant positive affect facilitates early expressive, but not receptive language.

Young adults' reactions to infant crying.

Motherhood in adolescent mothers: maternal attachment, mother-infant styles of interaction and emotion regulation at three months.

The homogeneity effect on figure/ground perception in infancy.

Infant shy temperament predicts preschoolers Theory of Mind.

The impact of object carriage on independent locomotion.

Early interactive behaviours in preterm infants and their mothers: influences of maternal depressive symptomatology and neonatal birth weight.

The joint role of trained, untrained, and observed actions at the origins of goal recognition.

Paternal influences on infant temperament: effects of father internalizing problems, parenting-related stress, and temperament.

Extrapolation and direct matching mediate anticipation in infancy.

Infants' ability to associate motion paths with object kinds.

Year: 2013 Volume: 36

Year: 2012 Volume: 35

Year: 2011 Volume: 34

Year: 2010 Volume: 33

Year: 2009 Volume: 32

Year: 2008 Volume: 31

Year: 2007 Volume: 30

Year: 2006 Volume: 29

Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 37 Issue: 1)

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Cohen-Bendahan, C. C. C. Van Doornen, L. J. P. de Weerth, C.
Description	Author Affiliation: Cohen-Bendahan CC ( Department of Developmental Psychology - Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: c.cohen@psych.ru.nl.); van Doornen LJ ( Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.); de Weerth C ( Department of Developmental Psychology - Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Montessorilaan 3, PO Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands.)
Abstract	An infant's optimal development is determined to a great extent by the adequate and sensitive responses of the caregiver. The adequacy and sensitivity of a reaction to an infant in distress (i.e. crying) will partly depend on the causal attributions of the crying and on the individual's sympathy for the infant. Being female, prior caring experiences, and multiparity have shown to be linked to more sympathetic, tolerant and less hostile emotional responses to crying. However, little is known about other factors explaining inexperienced future caregivers' reactions to infant crying. The present paper's goal is to shed more light on the subject by looking at how personality factors, caregiving interest, sex, promptness of the reaction, and gender identity are related to emotional reactions and causal attributions to crying in a population of young adults without children. One hundred and ninety-one childless university students participated (126 females; ages 18-35 years). The participants completed questionnaires on personality, gender identity and caregiving interest, and listened to an audio sample of an infant crying, reporting their emotions and their causal attributions to the crying. The results showed that experiencing anger was associated with more child-blaming attributions to the crying, while quickness of response and feelings of sympathy predicted more child-oriented attributions. The latter was stronger in males. Explicit care interest decreased child-blaming causal attributions more for men than for the women. Interestingly, solely in the females' personality factors neuroticism and conscientiousness played a role in child blaming attributions together with anger. These findings suggest that the motives that young adults attribute to a crying infant depend in males on the emotions triggered by the crying, responsiveness and care interest. While in females, emotions, responsiveness and personality affect the causal attribution to the crying. Future research is needed in order to determine whether these attributions are also linked to young adults' actual behaviour towards a crying infant.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	01636383
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	37
e-ISSN	19348800
Journal	Infant Behavior and Development
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2014-02-01
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Discipline Behavioral Sciences Discipline Pediatrics Caregivers Psychology Crying Emotions Physiology Personality Social Perception Adolescent Adult Anger Child Development Female Humans Infant Male Questionnaires Young Adult Journal Article Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Developmental and Educational Psychology

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 38)

Empathy and distress: two distinct but related emotions in response to infant crying.

Changes in empathy-related cry responding as a function of time: A time course study of adult's responses to infant crying.

Intended sensitive and harsh caregiving responses to infant crying: the role of cry pitch and perceived urgency in an adult twin sample.

Stability and antecedents of coparenting quality: the role of parent personality and child temperament.

The Infant Crying Questionnaire: initial factor structure and validation.

Is cyberbullying related to trait or state anger?

Mother-infant interaction and children's socio-emotional development with high- and low-risk mothers.

Mother's personality and infant temperament.

Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 37 Issue: 1)

Similar Documents

Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 38)

Empathy and distress: two distinct but related emotions in response to infant crying.

Changes in empathy-related cry responding as a function of time: A time course study of adult's responses to infant crying.

Intended sensitive and harsh caregiving responses to infant crying: the role of cry pitch and perceived urgency in an adult twin sample.

Stability and antecedents of coparenting quality: the role of parent personality and child temperament.

The Infant Crying Questionnaire: initial factor structure and validation.

Is cyberbullying related to trait or state anger?

Mother-infant interaction and children's socio-emotional development with high- and low-risk mothers.

Mother's personality and infant temperament.

Young adults' reactions to infant crying. (Journal: Infant Behavior and Development Volume: 37 Issue: 1)