Maternal Worry Socialization and Toddler Inhibited Temperament: Transactional Associations and Stability across Time.

ABSTRACT: Caregiver socialization of child emotions has consequences for both typical development and anxiety risk, with caregivers' non-supportive responses to worry perhaps especially salient to children's anxiety development. Children, in turn, impact the caregiving environment they receive through their temperament. We investigated transactional relations between maternal non-supportive responses to child worry (mother-reported) and two differently-measured child inhibited temperament indices (i.e., mother-perceived child inhibition to novelty, laboratory-observed child dysregulated fear) in a sample of 136 predominantly non-Hispanic, White mother-toddler dyads. Worry socialization and mother-reported inhibition to novelty were measured at each of three time points (toddler age 2, 3, 4 years), a

SUBMITTER: Price NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9201259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature