Emotional resilience in early childhood: developmental antecedents and relations to behavior problems

To test whether the development of emotional resilience is a function of sensitive caregiving and child negative affect, we tested the joint contributions of 7-month maternal sensitivity and infant negative affect to the prediction of 33-month emotional resilience across the first 3 years of life. T...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2006-12, Vol.1094 (1), p.272-277
Main Authors: Conway, Anne M, McDonough, Susan C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Emotions
Humans
Infant
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers - psychology
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Summary:To test whether the development of emotional resilience is a function of sensitive caregiving and child negative affect, we tested the joint contributions of 7-month maternal sensitivity and infant negative affect to the prediction of 33-month emotional resilience across the first 3 years of life. The aims of this study were to examine whether maternal sensitivity and infant negative affect predict long-term emotional resilience and whether this was associated with preschool behavior problems. Using a sample of 181 mother-infant dyads, we found that (a) maternal sensitivity at 7 months, but not infant negative affect, longitudinally predicted emotional resilience during preschool and (b) emotional resilience was negatively associated with anxiety/depression in preschool.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1196/annals.1376.033