Parents of crying infants may experience frustration and anger towards their infant and parental perception of crying as a problem is the most common proximal risk factor for Shaken Baby Syndrome [ 11].
This longitudinal study builds on existing research exploring the developmental course of infants' negative reactivity to frustration in a sample of 84 irritable infants.
Through the inevitable experience of frustration the infant learns to adapt itself to the exigencies of reality.
Through these interactions, the infant learns to manage frustration, accept delay and disappointment, operate in the environment autonomously, and cooperate with others.
As a result of feelings of need and moments of frustration, the infant becomes differentiated from its primary caregiver and develops a sense of separate identity.
We investigated whether infants' negative reactivity to frustration differed during the first year as a function of infant attachment classification.
To investigate the differential association of three modes (fussing, crying, unsoothable crying) and three properties (duration/day, frequency/day, maximum bout length) of infant distress with daily caregiver frustration.
If she mourns the death, many years earlier, of her infant son, or experiences boredom or frustration with her daily routines, these feelings stay far below the surface.
But the day was easier than I had worried it would be, maybe because living with an infant had raised my threshold for frustration.
To assess the extent that anticipated maternal emotions in response to infant care (infant care emotionality or frustration and dissatisfaction with infant crying or fussing, or both), several forms of social support, and socioeconomic status explain fourth‐week postpartum depressive symptoms of adolescent mothers.
