The perception of infant crying

Autor	Zuzana Masopustová
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita
Year	2011
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	The main research objective of the study was to determine whether the perception of infant crying is influenced by psychological characteristics of the mother. The data on 310 women were collected during their pregnancy and after delivery. Maternal psychological characteristics were obtained from self-report questionnaires (STAI-T, BDI-II, MSRI-s, IRA) during the first data collection (in the third trimester of pregnancy). The data about infant’s crying behaviour was obtained during the second data collection (between 4th and 8th week after delivery). The second data collection also included the original questionnaire Feelings about Infant Crying and Infant Crying Characteristics.Respondents were asked to see a videoclip of an unknown crying infant and then to rate (on 7-point Likert scale) their agreement/disagreement with adjectives describing the infant’s crying behaviour and with nouns describing their feelings about the behaviour. The relationships between maternal characteristics and their perception of infant crying and emotional response to it were found.
Keywords	perception of infant crying; infant crying; educational attitudes; mother´s self-evaluation
Research type	quantitative
Start date	1. 1. 2008
End date	1. 1. 2011
Obor	AN Psychology
Email	7421@mail.muni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita , Joštova 10, Brno 60200
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita
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