SPECIFICITY OF MOTHER-INFANT INTERACTION

这个项目调查了在儿童出生后的头十年里，有助于儿童认知和社会能力发展的内源性和外源性因素。在孩子们达到足够大的年龄进入正式的社交学习环境之前，他们几乎所有的经历都直接源于他们与主要照顾者的互动。该项目侧重于几个母亲特征(年龄、父母地位、生育状况、就业状况以及在母亲=S就业期间经历的替代照料的类型)对观察到的照料一方面与儿童发展认知和社会能力之间的关系的影响程度。在这种纵向方法中，受试者在5个月和20个月以及4岁和10岁时接受访问。5个月时，观察母婴之间的相互作用。在20个月时，对幼儿的功能(游戏能力、语言发展和社会适应)和母亲的行为(游戏和智力)进行测量。在4岁和10岁时，对不同的儿童=S的能力(表征能力、解决问题的能力、推理能力、数学能力、语言使用和话语，以及一般适应行为的选定方面)进行了详细的检查，并将与早期的测量相关。-人类科目

This project investigates endogenous and exogenous factors that contribute to the development of cognitive and social competencies in children during the first ten years of life. Before children are old enough to enter formal social learning situations, nearly all of their experiences stem directly from interactions they have with their primary caregivers. The project focuses on the extent to which several maternal characteristics (age, parenthood status, parity, employment status, as well as type of substitute care experienced during mother=s employment) influence observed relations between caregiving on the one hand and child developing cognitive and social competencies on the other. In this longitudinal approach, subjects are visited when they are 5 and 20 months and 4 and 10 years of age. At 5 months, mother-infant interaction is observed. At 20 months, measures of toddler functioning (play competence, language development, and social adaptation) and maternal behavior (play and intelligence) are obtained. At 4 and 10 years, diverse children=s abilities (representational competence, problem solving, reasoning skills, mathematical ability, language use and discourse, and selected aspects of generally adaptive behavior) are examined in detail and will be related to the earlier measures. - Human Subjects