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Infant negative affectivity at 6 months predicts more complex and stable motor systems, while maternal anxiety is linked to less organized infant motor skills. These findings highlight early links between infant temperament, caregiver well-being, and motor development.

Keywords:

Accelerometry IBQ-R Infancy Limb movement Maternal anxiety Motor development Multidimensional Recurrence Quantification Analysis Negative affectivity Temperament

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Area of Science:

Developmental Psychology
Infant Motor Development
Behavioral Neuroscience

Background:

Infant temperament, or behavioral responses to stimuli, develops alongside significant motor system changes.
Caregiver mental well-being, particularly maternal anxiety, can influence infant development.
Understanding the interplay between infant temperament, motor organization, and caregiver factors is crucial for early development.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the associations between infant temperament and motor system organization at 6 and 12 months.
To examine the influence of maternal trait anxiety on infant motor development.
To explore how different social interaction tasks affect motor system complexity and stability.

Main Methods:

Longitudinal study of 83 infants at 6 months and 59 at 12 months.
Wearable accelerometers recorded infant limb movements during book-sharing, toy play, and rattle-shaking tasks.
Multidimensional Recurrence Quantification Analysis (MdRQA) quantified motor system Entropy (complexity) and Mean Line (stability).

Main Results:

Negative Affectivity (NEG) at 6 months predicted higher motor system Entropy and Mean Line at 6 and 12 months.
Temperament at 12 months did not predict concurrent motor system organization.
Maternal trait anxiety (at 4 months) predicted lower motor system Entropy and Mean Line at 12 months.
Task conditions modulated motor system complexity and stability at 12 months.

Conclusions:

Early infant negative affectivity is associated with more complex and stable motor systems.
Maternal anxiety negatively impacts infant motor system organization.
Contextual factors, like social interaction tasks, become more influential on motor development later in infancy.