1.
J Pediatr Psychol
; 13(3): 423-33, 1988 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3199297
2.
Child Dev
; 50(3): 794-803, 1979 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-498854
RESUMO
The Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ) was developed as a short, factor-analytic screening device for difficultness. Responses of 322 mothers of 4-6-month-old infants suggested that they regard the fussy, hard-to-soothe, labile infant as difficult. Mother report on the ICQ, particularly on the main fussy-difficult factor was found to have adequate reliability over time and convergence with the Carey Survey of Temperamental Characteristics, with father report on the ICQ, and, to a lower degree, with home data collected by independent observers. It was also found that mother characteristics may affect perceptions of infant difficultness: multiparous, extraverted mothers tended to rate their infants as easy.