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- - The study explored if infant temperament could predict whether babies would drop out of research tasks at 3.5 and 7 months old.
- - Findings revealed that temperament did not influence dropout rates, and dropout varied between different tasks over time.
- - The results imply that individual temperament doesn't consistently relate to study participation, suggesting benefits for using diverse methods in research to handle dropout.
Article Abstract
In this study, we examined whether infant temperament predicted study dropout at 3.5 and 7 months and whether dropout was stable across time. Dropout was measured across four experimental tasks (free-play, ERP, still-face, and eye tracking). Temperament was not related to dropout at either timepoint. Dropout was not stable across time, nor was it stable across tasks. These findings suggest that individual differences in temperament are not systematically related to study completion across experimental tasks with varied requirements. These findings additionally suggest that dropout is not consistent across tasks, which may support the utility of multi-study data collection methods.
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