THE MOTHER-INFANT RELATIONSHIP AS A CO-REGULATORY SYSTEM

作为共同调节系统的母婴关系

• 批准号: 6205381
• 负责人: AMANDA J MORENO
• 金额: $ 2.45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6205381
• 关键词: child behavior; child psychology; clinical research; cryings; emotions; female; human subject; infant human (0-1 year); interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; mother child interaction; personal log /diary; social behavior; touch; young adult human (21-34)

The proposed research has two major goals. First, an experimental component will examine whether mother-infant dyads (3 1/2 month-old infants) display improved co-regulation (continuous mutual coordination) in face-to-face interactions across three conditions that increase the amount of physical contact, i.e., no touch, touch only, and holding. Second, a longitudinal component will examine whether co-regulation at 3 1/2 months predicts infant emotion regulation and mother-infant relationship quality at 8 1/2 months. Several features areincluded to bolster knowledge about ongoing processes in the dyad such as naturalistic home visits, bi-weekly infant diaries (assessing variables such as time spent in physical contact, fussiness, and time spent with other caregivers), and measures of maternal stress, social support, and satisfaction with parenting. This work could have implications for the understanding of key processes in early socioemotional development. The experimental component assesses whether physical contact serves not just as a regulator of infant distress, but as a promoter of coordination and mutual responsivity between mothers and infants. The longitudinal component provides an examination of the developmental progression from initially mutually controlled, to self-directed regulation, as well as an assessment of early co- regulation as a window onto the "attachment-in-the-making" phase - a relatively neglected period of relationship formation in the empirical attachment literature since the advent of measures that are not valid until a theoretically stable attachment representation exists.

拟议的研究有两个主要目标。首先，实验部分将检验母子二人组（3个半月大的婴儿）是否在三种增加身体接触的情况下，即不接触、只接触和抱着，在面对面互动中表现出更好的共同调节（持续的相互协调）。其次，纵向成分将检验3个半月的共同调节是否预测婴儿情绪调节和8个半月的母婴关系质量。包括几个特征，以加强对二联体中正在进行的过程的了解，如自然的家访，双周婴儿日记（评估变量，如花在身体接触上的时间，忙碌，和与其他照顾者一起度过的时间），以及母亲压力，社会支持和育儿满意度的测量。这项工作可能会对理解早期社会情感发展的关键过程产生影响。实验部分评估身体接触是否不仅作为婴儿痛苦的调节者，而且作为母亲和婴儿之间协调和相互反应的促进者。纵向部分提供了从最初的相互控制到自我导向调节的发展过程的检查，以及对早期共同调节的评估，作为“形成中的依恋”阶段的窗口——在实证依恋文献中，这是一个相对被忽视的关系形成时期，因为测量的出现在理论上稳定的依恋表征存在之前是不有效的。