Tempering Temperament: Exploring the Influence of Maternal Mind-Mindedness on Infant Temperament in Shaping Socioemotional Wellbeing

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI:10.1111/infa.70032

Allira Doyle, Emma E. Walter, Samudra Radhakrishnan, Frances L. Doyle

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Although several studies independently explore temperament and parenting, research on connections between temperament and mind-mindedness are largely absent. This study examined relationships between maternal mind-mindedness and infant temperament on infant socioemotional wellbeing. Participants comprised culturally diverse mother-infant dyads (n = 63; 52.38% girls). Infants, aged 4- (n = 32) and 8-months-old (n = 31), and their mothers completed a free-play task. While direct relationships between mind-mindedness and wellbeing were not supported, an indirect interactional relationship between mind-mindedness and temperament on wellbeing was supported. Mind-mindedness moderated the relationship between negative affect and socioemotional development whereby infants with higher negative affect who received higher appropriate comments had better socioemotional wellbeing than their lower negative affect counterparts. This highlights that, for higher negative affect infants, appropriate comments are particularly influential in enhancing wellbeing. Effortful control predicted wellbeing, suggesting that specific temperament traits experience optimal socioemotional development independently of mind-minded parenting. These findings broaden research knowledge regarding the differential susceptibility hypothesis. Overall, this study has shown how wellbeing can be affected by the temperamental dispositions that infants bring into the world as well as the parenting experiences that they encounter.

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调和气质：探讨母亲心智对婴儿气质在社会情绪健康塑造中的影响

虽然有几项研究独立地探讨了气质和养育子女之间的关系，但关于气质和心智之间关系的研究在很大程度上是缺失的。本研究考察了母亲心智和婴儿气质对婴儿社会情感健康的影响。参与者包括文化不同的母婴二人组(n = 63；52.38%的女孩)。4岁（n = 32）和8个月大（n = 31）的婴儿及其母亲完成了一项自由游戏任务。虽然心智与幸福感之间的直接关系不被支持，但心智与气质对幸福感之间的间接相互作用关系得到了支持。心智调节了负面情绪与社会情绪发展之间的关系，即负面情绪较高的婴儿在接受较高的适当评论时，其社会情绪健康状况优于负面情绪较低的婴儿。这突出表明，对于负面情绪较高的婴儿，适当的评论对提高幸福感特别有影响。努力控制预示着幸福，这表明特定的气质特征在独立于思想教育的情况下经历了最佳的社会情感发展。这些发现拓宽了关于差异易感性假说的研究知识。总的来说，这项研究表明，婴儿出生时的喜怒无常以及他们所遇到的育儿经历是如何影响幸福感的。

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Infancy PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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4.00

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期刊介绍： Infancy, the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, emphasizes the highest quality original research on normal and aberrant infant development during the first two years. Both human and animal research are included. In addition to regular length research articles and brief reports (3000-word maximum), the journal includes solicited target articles along with a series of commentaries; debates, in which different theoretical positions are presented along with a series of commentaries; and thematic collections, a group of three to five reports or summaries of research on the same issue, conducted independently at different laboratories, with invited commentaries.