Journal article
If You Go Down to the Woods Today: Infants’ Distress During a Teddy Bear's Picnic in Relation to Peer Relations and Later Emotional Problems
DF Hay, SHM van Goozen, L Mundy, R Phillips, S Roberts, M Meeuwsen, I Goodyer, O Perra
Infancy | WILEY | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12172
Abstract
Infants’ emotional reactions to an unusual event were assessed at a simulated birthday party during which two costumed characters enacted a Teddy Bear's Picnic. Two hundred and fifty-eight firstborn infants in a representative British community sample were observed at a mean age of 12.8 months in the presence of their parents and other participating families, in a laboratory sitting room decorated with balloons and banners. The picnic scenario was followed by free play with the other participating infants. At a mean of 36 months of age, mothers, fathers, and another informant who knew the child well completed the Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL). The majority of infants showed no vocal dist..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Dale Hay and Stephanie van Goozen are joint first authors of this article. The Cardiff Child Development Study has been funded by the Medical Research Council, UK, through Programme Grant GO400086 and Project Grant MR/J013366/1. We are very grateful to the students and colleagues who donned costumes or filmed the experimental procedure and helped with observational coding (Raffaella Carta, Rhiannon Fyfield, Mary Halsey, Britt Hallingberg, Sarah-Louise Hurst, Georgia Ktistaki, Jessica Lazo, and Wentao Liang) and especially to the families who have given so generously of their time to the CCDS.