Sadly, so many adults resort to
infantile behavior and pretend they have no control over what comes next.
It's
infantile behavior on the trolls behalf.
Many later problems of children are rooted in inadequacies in this first, trust - forming stage — depression, feelings of unworth, withdrawal from relationships, continued
infantile behavior such as thumbsucking and overeating, for example.
Developmental arrest, delays in physical, cognitive, social or emotional development, speech disorders,
infantile behavior.
Sorry little one but the only
infantile behavior and delusional flatulence is emitting from you... not anyone else.
«Fixated» means regressing to a certain type of
infantile behavior that was typical of a certain childhood stage.
Not exact matches
Now I get that you may not agree but that does not merit name calling and child like
behavior, so before calling me
infantile look in the mirror.
Do you even know what the word
infantile MEANS, or are you just parroting something you heard your mommy say concerning your own
behavior?
The primary focus in Homey's therapy is on the situation one is now facing and on the current function of
behavior, rather than on the discovery of the
infantile roots of the problem.
Psychoanalysis recognizes that promiscuous sexual
behavior springs from a disturbed personality, though exceptions are made in the case of the exploratory adolescent phase of development, which marks the transition between
infantile and mature love.
And by dealing with him, they revert into that dynamic, be it his brother, his ex-girlfriend: By the end of episode three, this
infantile Hollywood - like
behavior has spread throughout this 4 × 4 culture.
There, it exposes that the studies that make a pursuit to the children from the birth to the adult age show that, among the three characteristic keys of
infantile development (academic, emotional or
behavior), the emotional development is the best of the three predicting ones, and the academic field the worst one.
Cats have not been selectively bred for as long as dogs, so they retain far less
infantile (kittenish)
behavior.
I would suggest its
behavior is more
infantile than youthful.
Evaluate the longitudinal course of
infantile anorexia in both eating
behavior and emotional - adjustment during development.
In summary, the current study suggests that maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior assessed during their pregnancy might be a risk factor for
infantile aggression at 18 months of age.
In addition, we identified an indirect pathway between maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior and
infantile aggression at 18 months of age via maternal PDS.
problems in reciprocal social
behavior were neither directly (estimate = − 0.030, 95 % CI [− 0.110, 0.041]-RRB- nor indirectly associated with
infantile aggression through the mediation of the maternal PDS (estimate = 0.010, 95 % CI [− 0.001, 0.028]; table not shown).
This study investigated the influence of maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior and PDS on
infantile aggression at 18 months of age using a birth cohort in Japan.
The first is a direct pathway leading from maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior to
infantile aggression; the other is an indirect pathway stemming from maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior to
infantile aggression via maternal PDS.
First, we calculated descriptive statistics related to maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior, maternal PDS, and
infantile aggression.
Next, we conducted a mediation analysis using the SEM to test whether the association between maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior and
infantile aggression at 18 months of age could be explained by maternal PDS (the bottom of Figure 1).
Furthermore, previous reviews have suggested that early
infantile aggression is associated with hostile social cognitive biases and impaired self - regulation of
behavior and emotions, which in turn potentially increase antisocial
behavior during childhood or later in life (Shonkoff, Boyce, & McEwen, 2009; Tremblay, 2010).
Table 2 shows descriptive statistics for the three major variables: maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior during mid-pregnancy, maternal PDS at four weeks after childbirth, and
infantile aggression at 18 months
The results of mediation analysis using structural equation modeling showed that maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior directly increased
infantile aggression (estimate = 0.100, 95 % CI [0.011, 0.186]-RRB-, and indirectly increased
infantile aggression via maternal postpartum depressive symptoms (estimate = 0.027, 95 % CI [0.010, 0.054]-RRB-, even after controlling for covariates.
The results demonstrated that maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior was positively associated with
infantile aggression (estimate = 0.123, 95 % CI [0.032, 0.215]-RRB-, after controlling for covariates including maternal age, paternal age, maternal years of education, paternal years of education, marital status, annual household income, maternal history of depression and / or anxiety disorders, and infant gender (Table 4).
In addition, we performed a supplemental analysis to rule out the possibility that paternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior, which were assessed during mid-pregnancy, simultaneously with maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior, increased the risk for
infantile aggression at 18 months of age.
behavior reported higher levels of PDS and had children with higher levels of
infantile aggression.
Then, we examined whether maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior directly or indirectly influenced
infantile aggression at 18 months of age by including maternal PDS into the model (see bottom of Figure 1).
This is the first study to demonstrate two separate processes in the effects of maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior on early
infantile aggression.
This study investigated whether maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior were predictive of higher
infantile aggression at 18 months of age, and whether maternal postpartum depressive symptoms mediated the association.
We found a direct pathway between maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior and
infantile aggression at 18 months of age.
Previous studies have led to the assumption that maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior might play an important role in
infantile aggression.
We focused on whether maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior increase the likelihood of
infantile aggression and whether the association was mediated by maternal PDS after controlling for potential covariates.
As seen in Table 3, maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior were positively correlated with maternal PDS (ρ = 0.119, p = 0.002) and
infantile aggression (ρ = 0.078, p = 0.020), indicating that mothers with higher scores for problems in reciprocal social
Structural equation model predicting
infantile aggression stemming from maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior (N = 769).
Structural equation model predicting
infantile aggression stemming from maternal postpartum depressive symptoms and problems in reciprocal social
behavior (N = 769).
Fourth, we could not establish causality, namely whether maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior during pregnancy actually caused changes in maternal PDS 4 weeks after childbirth, which in turn caused changes in the
infantile aggression at 18 months of age.
Maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior were evaluated during mid-pregnancy; maternal postpartum depressive symptoms were assessed at 4 weeks after childbirth; and
infantile aggression was evaluated at 18 months of age.
Using data from a Japanese birth cohort, the current study tested whether maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior were associated with increased
infantile aggression at 18 months of age, and whether maternal PDS mediated the association between maternal problems in reciprocal social
behavior and
infantile aggression.