Maternal characteristics and perception of temperament associated with infant TV exposure

AL Thompson, LS Adair, ME Bentley - Pediatrics, 2013 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the development of television (TV) behaviors across the
first 18 months of life and identifies maternal and infant predictors of infant TV exposure.
METHODS: We used longitudinal TV exposure, maternal sociodemographic, and infant
temperament data from 217 African-American mother-infant pairs participating in the Infant
Care and Risk of Obesity Study. Longitudinal logistic models and ordered regression
models with clustering for repeated measures across subjects adjusted for infant gender and …