TY - JOUR
AU - Bohlin, Gunilla
AB - The purpose of the study was to establish dimensions of functioning that account forinterindividual variation in behavior in the middle infancy period and toinvestigate the stability of the dimensional structure during a large part of theinfancy period. Factor analyses were performed on parent questionnaire data for 357infants, aged 11 to 15 months. An orthogonal 8-factor solution was preferred andcross-validated on subsamples. Comparisons with factor solutions previously obtainedfor 3 to 6 and 6 to 10 month-old infants revealed similarity for seven of thefactors, both in terms of general dimensional content and item loading patterns.Thus, the dimensional structure of infants' behavioral repertoire was shown to behighly stable over the 3 to 15 months age period. The seven factors were namedIntensity/Activity, Regularity, Approach-With drawal, Sensory Sensitivity,Attentiveness, Manageability, and Sensitivity to New Food. The additional eighthfactor, appearing only in the oldest sample, was named Adaptability.
TI - Behavioral Dimensions in One-Year-Olds and Dimensional Stability in Infancy
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
DO - 10.1177/016502548000300401
DA - 1980-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/behavioral-dimensions-in-one-year-olds-and-dimensional-stability-in-G223Ex9HRL
SP - 351
EP - 364
VL - 3
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -