Maternal responsiveness and infant mental abilities: Specific predictive relations
Maternal responsiveness and infant mental abilities: Specific predictive relations
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DOI：
10.1016/s0163-6383(97)90001-1
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发表时间：
1997-07-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Tamis-LeMonda, CS
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作者：
Bornstein, MH;Tamis-LeMonda, CS
在一项短期的前瞻性纵向研究中，研究了母亲对5个月大孩子的非痛苦活动和声音痛苦的反应与13个月大的婴儿的注意力持续时间、象征性游戏和语言理解之间的特定预测关系。母亲在5个月时对婴儿无痛苦活动的反应，而不是对婴儿痛苦的反应，可以唯一地预测婴儿的注意力持续时间和象征性游戏，但不能预测婴儿的语言理解。13个月大的母亲的反应与婴儿的三种能力都是正相关的，一致的，但不显著的。结果支持母性反应对婴儿心理发展的影响是特定的和间接的，而不是一般的和直接的，并建议在儿童早期心理发展的研究中进一步区分婴儿活动、母体反应和儿童结局。
Specific predictive relations between mothers' responsiveness to their 5-month-olds' nondistress activities and vocal distress and infants' attention span, symbolic play, and language comprehension at 13 months were examined in 36 dyads in a short-term prospective longitudinal study. Maternal responsiveness to infant nondistress activities at 5 months, but not responsiveness to infant distress, uniquely predicted infant attention span and symbolic play, but not infant language comprehension. Mothers' responsiveness at 13 months was positively and consistently, but not significantly, associated with all three infant abilities. The results support a view that the effects of maternal responsiveness on infant mental development are specific and indirect rather than generic and direct and recommend further differentiation of infant activity, maternal responsiveness, and child outcome in studies of children's early mental development.