MATERNAL EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR INFANTS‘ DEVELOPMENT: SOME CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
MATERNAL EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR INFANTS‘ DEVELOPMENT: SOME CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
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母亲对婴儿发育的期望：一些文化差异
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
T. Westra
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作者：
B. Hopkins;T. Westra
来自三个文化群体的124位母亲被要求给出他们期望一个月大的婴儿达到三个运动里程碑的年龄。牙买加的母亲希望她们的婴儿比英国和印度的母亲更早学会坐和走路。印度母亲对爬行的估计比其他两组晚。获得这些能力的实际年龄密切反映了牙买加和英国母亲在期望方面的文化差异。牙买加的母亲在预测坐着的年龄方面特别准确。这些结果进行了讨论，在儿童发展的文化理论，以及他们对儿童健康的影响，在多元文化的社会。
A total of 124 mothers from three cultural groups living in the same British city were asked to give the ages at which they expected their one‐month‐old infants to achieve three motor milestones. Jamaican mothers expected their infants to sit and walk much earlier than their English and Indian counterparts. The Indian mothers gave later estimates for crawling than those of the other two groups. The actual ages at which the abilities were attained closely reflected the cultural differences in expectations between the Jamaican and English mothers. Jamaican mothers were particularly accurate in predicting sitting age. These results are discussed in relation to cultural theories of child development, together with their implications for child health in multicultural societies.