scholarly journals Longitudinal Study of Maternal Beliefs About Infant Crying During the Postpartum Period: Interplay With Infant’s Temperament

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiki Hiraoka ◽  
Michio Nomura ◽  
Masaharu Kato
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Infant Crying ◽  
Maternal Beliefs ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
Longitudinal Study Design ◽  
First Time

Infant crying is an important signal for their survival and development, and maternal beliefs about crying predict responsiveness to crying. Most studies have considered caregivers’ reactions to crying to be fixed, and it is unclear how they change with their caregiving experience. Additionally, it has recently been suggested that there is a bidirectional relationship between changes in mothers’ beliefs about crying and infants’ temperament. This study examined that relationship using a longitudinal study design. Maternal beliefs about crying and infant temperament of 339 Asian first-time mothers (mean age = 28.7 years, SD = 4.1) were measured at 1-month intervals over 4 months. There were 289 participants in Wave 2, 240 in Wave 3, and 164 in Wave 4. Prior to the main survey, we conducted a pre-survey to confirm the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Infant Crying Questionnaire. The results showed that parent-oriented beliefs, which focus on the caregiver rather than the crying infant, increased in mothers who had infants aged 3 months or older at Wave 1. We also found that the process of change in maternal beliefs was not uniform, and that infants high on surgency predicted changes in maternal beliefs about infant crying. Longitudinal studies of caregivers’ changes, such as the present study, are expected to contribute to understanding the co-development of caregivers and infants.

scholarly journals Effect of postpartum experience and infant temperament on maternal beliefs about infant crying

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiki Hiraoka ◽  
Michio Nomura ◽  
Masaharu Kato
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Infant Temperament ◽  
Infant Crying ◽  
Maternal Beliefs ◽  
Early Postpartum ◽  
Mother's Experience ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Longitudinal Study Design ◽  
First Time

Abstract Infant crying is an important signal for their survival and socio-cognitive development, and maternal beliefs about crying predict responsiveness to crying. Most studies have considered caregivers’ reactions to crying to be fixed, and it is unclear how they change with their caregiving experience. Additionally, it has recently been suggested that there is a bidirectional relationship between changes in mothers’ beliefs about crying and infants’ temperament. This study examined that relationship using longitudinal study design. Maternal beliefs about crying and infant temperament of first-time mothers were measured at 1-month intervals over a 4-month period. Prior to the main survey, we conducted a pre-survey to confirm the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Infant Crying Questionnaire. We found that parent-oriented beliefs, which focus on the caregiver rather than the crying infant, increased with the mother’s experience, and that infants high on surgency predicted changes in maternal beliefs about infant crying. The current results suggest that the beliefs required by caregivers change with an infant’s development and parenting experience in the early postpartum period. Longitudinal studies of caregivers’ changes, such as the present study, are expected to contribute to the understanding of co-development of caregivers and infants.

scholarly journals Effect of postpartum experience and infant temperament on maternal beliefs about infant crying

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiki Hiraoka ◽  
Michio Nomura ◽  
Masaharu Kato
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Infant Temperament ◽  
Infant Crying ◽  
Early Postpartum Period ◽  
Maternal Beliefs ◽  
Early Postpartum ◽  
Mother's Experience ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Longitudinal Study Design ◽  
First Time

Abstract Infant crying is an important signal for their survival and socio-cognitive development. It is unclear how maternal beliefs about infant crying change with their caregiving experience. Additionally, this study examined a bidirectional relationship between maternal beliefs and infants’ temperament using longitudinal study design. Maternal beliefs about crying and infant temperament of first-time mothers were measured at 1-month intervals over a 4-month period (N = 339 at Wave 1 and N = 164 at Wave 4). We found that parent-oriented beliefs about crying increased with the mother’s experience, and that infants high on surgency predicted changes in maternal beliefs. The current results suggest that the maternal beliefs change with an infant’s development and parenting experience in the early postpartum period.

Further Validity of the Japanese Version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-J)

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Oshio ◽  
Shingo Abe ◽  
Pino Cutrone ◽  
Samuel D. Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Big Five Personality

The Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003 ) is a widely used very brief measure of the Big Five personality dimensions. Oshio, Abe, and Cutrone (2012) have developed a Japanese version of the TIPI (TIPI-J), which demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Until now, all studies examining the validity of the TIPI-J have been conducted in the Japanese language; this reliance on a single language raises concerns about the instrument’s content validity because the instrument could demonstrate reliability (e.g., retest) and some forms of validity (e.g., convergent) but still not capture the full range of the dimensions as originally conceptualized in English. Therefore, to test the content validity of the Japanese TIPI with respect to the original Big Five formulation, we examine the convergence between scores on the TIPI-J and scores on the English-language Big Five Inventory (i.e., the BFI-E), an instrument specifically designed to optimize Big Five content coverage. Two-hundred and twenty-eight Japanese undergraduate students, who were all learning English, completed the two instruments. The results of correlation analyses and structural equation modeling demonstrate the theorized congruence between the TIPI-J and the BFI-E, supporting the content validity of the TIPI-J.

Reliability and validity of Japanese version of Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayaka Chikada ◽  
Jun Mitsui ◽  
Takashi Matsukawa ◽  
Hiroyuki Ishiura ◽  
Tatsushi Toda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple System Atrophy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version

scholarly journals Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Ocular Surface Disease Index for dry eye disease

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e033940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akie Midorikawa-Inomata ◽  
Takenori Inomata ◽  
Shuko Nojiri ◽  
Masahiro Nakamura ◽  
Masao Iwagami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Dry Eye ◽  
Ocular Surface ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Disease Index ◽  
Eye Disease ◽  
Ocular Surface Disease Index ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

ObjectivesThe Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire is widely used to evaluate subjective symptoms of dry eye disease (DED) as a primary diagnostic criterion. This study aimed to develop a Japanese version of the OSDI (J-OSDI) and assess its reliability and validity.Design and settingHospital-based cross-sectional observational study.ParticipantsA total of 209 patients recruited from the Department of Ophthalmology at Juntendo University Hospital.MethodsWe translated and culturally adapted the OSDI into Japanese. The J-OSDI was then assessed for internal consistency, reliability and validity. We also evaluated the optimal cut-off value to suspect DED using an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) analysis.Primary outcome measuresInternal consistency, test–retest reliability and discriminant validity of the J-OSDI as well as the optimal cut-off value to suspect DED.ResultsOf the participants, 152 had DED and 57 did not. The J-OSDI total score showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha=0.884), test–retest reliability (interclass correlation coefficient=0.910) and discriminant validity by known-group comparisons (non-DED, 19.4±16.0; DED, 37.7±22.2; p<0.001). Factor validity was used to confirm three subscales within the J-OSDI according to the original version of the questionnaire. Concurrent validity was assessed by Pearson correlation analysis, and the J-OSDI total score showed a strong positive correlation with the Dry Eye-Related Quality-of-Life Score (γ=0.829). The optimal cut-off value of the J-OSDI total score was 36.3 (AUC=0.744).ConclusionsThe J-OSDI was developed and validated in terms of reliability and validity as an effective tool for DED assessment and monitoring in the Japanese population.

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