Influence of Infant Temperament and Home Environment on Infant Development: Focusing on 6~7 Month Infants

This study examines the influence of infant temperament and home environment on infant development. It, used data from the 1st year of the Korea Panel on Early Childhood Education and Care (2022) and selected 655 6~7-month-old infants and their mothers as the study subjects. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were conducted to analyze the study results, which were as follows. First, it can be seen that there is a close relationship between the whole of infant development and the temperament of each area of infant temperament, and that fine motor skills and language during infant development are only related to extraversion and behavior/control among infants’ temperaments. In addition, infant development and the home environment were closely related, and it can be seen that fine motor and language development during infant development were less correlated than other developments in the home environment. Second, it can be seen that the extroversion of infant quality has the most influence on infant development as a whole, followed by the home environment. Looking at the results of each sub domain of infant development, gross motor, cognitive, language, and social development have the greatest influence on the home environment rather than temperament, and only fine motor development influences extroversion among temperament. It is significant that it recognized the importance of the home environment of early infants and young children, organized various programs linked to the family, and suggested active parental education.