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Infant visual preference for the mother’s face and longitudinal associations with emotional reactivity in the first year of life

Past research has focused on infants’ visual preference for the mother’s face, however it is still unknown how these responses change over time and what factors associate with such changes. A longitudinal study (N ~ 60) was conducted to investigate the trajectories of infant visual preference for th...

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Autores principales: Rigato, Silvia, Stets, Manuela, Charalambous, Sophia, Dvergsdal, Henrik, Holmboe, Karla
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10290679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37355764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37448-8
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author Rigato, Silvia
Stets, Manuela
Charalambous, Sophia
Dvergsdal, Henrik
Holmboe, Karla
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description Past research has focused on infants’ visual preference for the mother’s face, however it is still unknown how these responses change over time and what factors associate with such changes. A longitudinal study (N ~ 60) was conducted to investigate the trajectories of infant visual preference for the mother’s face and how these are related to the development of emotional reactivity in the first year of life. Two face stimuli (i.e., the infant’s mother and a consistent stranger face) were used in a visual preference task at 2 weeks, 4, 6, and 9 months of age. At each time point, mothers were asked to complete a measure of infant temperament via standardised questionnaires. Our results show that while at 2 weeks, 4 months and 9 months of age infants looked equally at both faces, infants at 6 months looked significantly longer at their mother’s face. We also observed prospective associations with emotional reactivity variables so that infants who looked longer at the mother’s face at 6 months showed higher falling reactivity, i.e. a better ability to recover from distress, at 9 months. We discuss these findings in light of the roles that both infant development and the caregiver play in emerging emotion regulation capacities during the first year of life.
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spelling pubmed-102906792023-06-26 Infant visual preference for the mother’s face and longitudinal associations with emotional reactivity in the first year of life Rigato, Silvia Stets, Manuela Charalambous, Sophia Dvergsdal, Henrik Holmboe, Karla Sci Rep Article Past research has focused on infants’ visual preference for the mother’s face, however it is still unknown how these responses change over time and what factors associate with such changes. A longitudinal study (N ~ 60) was conducted to investigate the trajectories of infant visual preference for the mother’s face and how these are related to the development of emotional reactivity in the first year of life. Two face stimuli (i.e., the infant’s mother and a consistent stranger face) were used in a visual preference task at 2 weeks, 4, 6, and 9 months of age. At each time point, mothers were asked to complete a measure of infant temperament via standardised questionnaires. Our results show that while at 2 weeks, 4 months and 9 months of age infants looked equally at both faces, infants at 6 months looked significantly longer at their mother’s face. We also observed prospective associations with emotional reactivity variables so that infants who looked longer at the mother’s face at 6 months showed higher falling reactivity, i.e. a better ability to recover from distress, at 9 months. We discuss these findings in light of the roles that both infant development and the caregiver play in emerging emotion regulation capacities during the first year of life. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10290679/ /pubmed/37355764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37448-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Infant visual preference for the mother’s face and longitudinal associations with emotional reactivity in the first year of life
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10290679/
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