Mothers and Fathers at Play with their Children with Down Syndrome: Influence on Child Exploratory and Symbolic Activity
Mothers and Fathers at Play with their Children with Down Syndrome: Influence on Child Exploratory and Symbolic Activity
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-3148.2010.00558.x
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Bornstein, Marc H.
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作者：
de Falco, Simona;Esposito, Gianluca;Bornstein, Marc H.
通过游戏，孩子们锻炼了他们正在形成的心理能力，而对于他们来说，在合作游戏中，照顾者经常调整他们的行为以帮助他们的孩子进步。在这项研究中，我们专注于比较唐氏综合征（DS）儿童与他们的父母双方之间的游戏，以及父母双方的游戏behaviors.Method共40亲子二人组参与：20名儿童DS（M年龄= 36.14个月）与他们的母亲和单独与他们的父亲。我们编码参与者的游戏行为在儿童单独和母亲-孩子和父亲-孩子的合作sessions.Results虽然儿童增加探索性的发挥，从单独的合作会议与父母双方，象征性的发挥增加，只有在联合发挥与父亲。与母亲相比，父亲表现出较少的象征性和更多的探索性活动。母亲和父亲都调谐到他们的孩子，虽然父亲表现出更高程度的协调。结论这项研究表明，母亲和父亲的贡献DS儿童游戏技能是积极的，但不同的。在合作游戏的儿童收到具体的和不重叠的脚手架从他们的父母，父亲的贡献是独一无二的。
Background Through play children exercise their emerging mental abilities, and for their part, when in collaborative play, caregivers often adjust their behaviours to assist their children's progress. In this study, we focused on comparisons between play of Down Syndrome (DS) children with their two parents as well as on comparisons between the two parents' play behaviours.Method Altogether 40 parent-child dyads participated: 20 children with DS (M age = 36.14 months) with their mothers and separately with their fathers. We coded participants' play behaviours during child solitary and mother-child and father-child collaborative sessions.Results Although children increased exploratory play from solitary to collaborative sessions with both parents, symbolic play increased only during joint play with fathers. Fathers displayed less symbolic and more exploratory activity compared to mothers. Mothers and fathers alike were attuned to their children, although fathers showed a higher degree of attunement.Conclusions This study shows that maternal and paternal contributions to DS child play skills are positive but different. During collaborative play children received specific and nonoverlapping scaffolding from their two parents, and fathers' contributions were unique.