Infant temperament, mother's mode of interaction, and attachment in Japan: an interim report.

Abstract

The objective of our research is to investigate the possible relationships among several variables: the infant's temperamental disposition, the mother's mode of interaction, and the quality of the subsequent motherinfant attachment. Our ultimate objective is to understand how processes in early infancy lay the basis for important individual differences in both personality and cognitive style in later childhood (Azuma, Kashiwagi, & Hess, 1981; Miyake, Tajima, & Usui, 1980). Specifically, our research concerns the relationship between the infant's temperamental characteristics and the attachment to his or her mother; the