Child Temperament and Mother's Personality as a Predictors of Maternal Relation to Child

Maternal personality influences the relationship between maternal reports and laboratory measures of child temperament.

Previous research has indicated that agreement between maternal reports of child temperament and laboratory measures is modest; however, it is unclear whether maternal characteristics influence convergence between methods. We examined whether mothers' personality influenced agreement between maternal reports and observational measures of child traits. A total of 64 mothers and children particip...

Caring power of mothers who have a child with cancer and its predictors

Background: Attention to the family care provider needs and their caring power is essential. Since mothers are considered as the child’s main care provider, this study aimed to determine the caring power and its predictors among mothers of children with cancer. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study, 196 mothers who had a child with cancer were selected through purposiv...

Relation between Social Determinants of Maternal Health and Child Development: A Path Analysis

Background: Since several factors, rather than a single cause, contribute to developmental delay in children, identification of the condition's risk factors and their pathway of effects are critical to the design and implementation of appropriate intervention .This study aimed to determine the relation between social determinants of maternal health and child development in Iranian mothers and t...

Distinctive personality attributes of child-abusing mothers.

Temperament and trait anxiety as predictors of child behavior prior to general anesthesia for dental surgery.

Children's individual styles of interaction with the environment (temperament) influence stable tendencies towards distress (trait anxiety) and context-specific manifestations of distress (state anxiety). Measures of temperament and trait anxiety were examined as predictors of state anxiety (i.e., disruptive behaviors) in the presurgical setting. During a 2-month period, 51 nonpremedicated, hea...