TY - JOUR
T1 - Neonatal stability and one-month behavior
AU - Worobey, John
N1 - Funding Information: * Revised version of a paper presented at the October 1984 meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Baltimore, MD. Data collection was supported in part by a grant from the University of Oklahoma’s College of Arts and Sciences. The author wishes to thank Diana Anderson-Goetz, Lynn Dethlefsen, Linda Linhardt. and Terry Tinker for their assistance. as well as the mothers and infants who participated. Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to John Worobey. Hall, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - To explore the functional advantage of behavioral variability in newborns, 49 infants were tested twice with the Brazelton Scale over the first month postpartum. With regard to performance across examinations, degree of stability predicted the observed infant and mother behaviors, but their relationship appeared as somewhat curvilinear. Based on these results, the merits of variability versus stability are discussed.
AB - To explore the functional advantage of behavioral variability in newborns, 49 infants were tested twice with the Brazelton Scale over the first month postpartum. With regard to performance across examinations, degree of stability predicted the observed infant and mother behaviors, but their relationship appeared as somewhat curvilinear. Based on these results, the merits of variability versus stability are discussed.
KW - NBAS
KW - behavioral stability
KW - newborns
KW - test/retest reliability
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/0163-6383(86)90043-3
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/0163-6383(86)90043-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-6383
VL - 9
SP - 119
EP - 124
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
IS - 1
ER -