Hill-Soderlund Ashley L, Braungart-Rieker Julia M
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.
Infant Behav Dev. 2008 Sep;31(3):386-97. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.12.007. Epub 2008 Feb 14.
This longitudinal study tested the hypothesis that early temperament is associated with later effortful control. Fear reactivity and object orientation was assessed in a sample of 53 children at 8, 12, and 16 months during a stranger-approach paradigm and at 4.5 or 5.5 years on a battery of effortful control tasks. A latent growth curve analysis was used to model change in reactivity and object orientation across infancy and the prediction of each on later effortful control. Infants who increased in fear reactivity were significantly more likely to show poor performance on effortful control tasks in early childhood. Findings are discussed with respect to the importance of examining early temperamental precursors that contribute to the development of regulation.
这项纵向研究检验了早期气质与后期努力控制相关的假设。在一项陌生人接近范式中，对53名8个月、12个月和16个月大的儿童样本进行了恐惧反应性和目标定向评估，并在4.5岁或5.5岁时对一系列努力控制任务进行了评估。采用潜在增长曲线分析来模拟婴儿期反应性和目标定向的变化以及各自对后期努力控制的预测。恐惧反应性增加的婴儿在幼儿期的努力控制任务中表现不佳的可能性显著更高。针对研究有助于调节发展的早期气质先兆的重要性，对研究结果进行了讨论。
