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Peer reviewedDiener, Marissa L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined associations among parents' characteristics, prenatal expectations for and postpartum perceptions of infant temperament, and observers' ratings of temperament. Found that parents shared expectations for infant's emotional expressivity but differed in expectation for predictability and adaptability. Parent's postpartum ratings of…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants
