Journal of pediatric psychology
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Caregiver Emotional Availability, Caregiver Soothing Behaviors, and Infant Pain During Immunization.
To determine whether caregivers with more extreme emotional availability scores enact different levels of soothing behaviors and whether infants of these caregivers differ in their pain scores across the first year of life. ⋯ This study suggests that caregiver emotional availability, in the extremes, do have clinically meaningful relationships with infant pain regulation.