Campbell S B
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 1979 Winter;10(2):67-76. doi: 10.1007/BF01433498.
Mother-infant pairs (N = 38) were observed at home when infants were three months old; mothers also completed a questionnaire measure of infant temperament. Infants who were rated as irregular in biological functioning received somewhat less responsive mothering. A subgroup of infants rated as difficult, that is, extremely irregular, nonadaptable, and negative in mood, were then compared with matched controls; mothers interacted less and were less responsive to the social bids of infants they rated as difficult. This pattern of lowered maternal responsiveness was still in evidence at an eight-month follow-up observation, suggesting that negative perceptions of infant behavior can be persistent effects on the quality of caretaking.
当婴儿三个月大时，对38对母婴进行了家访观察；母亲们还完成了一份关于婴儿气质的问卷调查。被评定为生理功能不规律的婴儿得到的母亲回应相对较少。然后，将一组被评定为难养型的婴儿，即极度不规律、难以适应且情绪消极的婴儿，与匹配的对照组进行比较；母亲们与她们评定为难养型的婴儿互动较少，对这些婴儿的社交示意反应也较少。在八个月的随访观察中，这种母亲反应性降低的模式仍然存在，这表明对婴儿行为的负面看法可能会持续影响照顾质量。
