Infant attention to audiovisual events and social competence predict childhood temperament.

ABSTRACT: Individual differences in child temperament predict socioemotional skills, academic achievement, and psychopathology in middle to late childhood. However, early predictors of child temperament remain understudied. Here, we investigate the role of multisensory attention skills (sustained attention, intersensory matching, and shifting/disengaging) and social competence in infants and toddlers as early predictors of child temperament (effortful control, negative affect, and surgency). Although much of the research on social competence and temperament has focused on individual differences, until now, there were no individual difference measures appropriate for assessing attention to multisensory events. The Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol is a newly developed measure that assesses f

SUBMITTER: Ramirez BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12252253 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature