Prenatal origins of temperament: Fetal cardiac development & infant surgency, negative affectivity, and regulation/orienting.

ABSTRACT: Temperament, i.e. individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation, emerges early in infancy; might temperament originate during fetal development? Mixed findings and methodological issues in the literature examining this consideration limit our understanding of the continuity between these fetal indices and infant temperament. The primary aims of the current study were to improve on published studies by (a) using standardized and well-accepted fetal cardiac (actocardiograph) and infant temperament measures (the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised; IBQ-R) (b) expanding fetal assessments to include coupling (the cross correlation of heart rate with movement), and (c) examining a diverse sample to determine if findings of associations between fetal neurobehavior and infant temperam

SUBMITTER: Pingeton BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11915220 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature