Interactional regulations between mothers and their infants during the first 3 months of life. Develpmental trajectories in Cameroonian Nso farmers and German middle-class families

关于幼儿早期亲子互动的研究主要基于西方的研究，主要集中在面对面的情境和这种情境下的行为规范。本研究旨在纵向分析两个截然不同的文化社区：西非Nso农民（N=26）和德国中产阶级家庭（N=20）的亲子互动。这两个文化共同体可以看作是相互依存和独立的社会文化取向的典型代表。在婴儿出生后的头三个月，每周对母婴互动情况进行录像评估。除了面对面的调节外，还将研究身体接触和身体刺激的发展以及对婴儿积极和消极信号的温暖和偶然性。此外，本文还将从文化符码的角度分析这些互动情境中母亲的幼儿导向语。将为国家统计局样本制定具有文化敏感性的互动质量定义。

Research on parent-child interactions during the early months of life ist mainly based on Western studies focusing on the face-to-face context and behavioral regulations within this context. The present study is aimed at analyzing parent-infant interactions longitudinally in two distinctly different cultural communities: West African Nso farmers (N=26) and German middle-class families (N=20). These two cultural communities can be regarded as prototypically representing interdependent and independent sociocultural orientations. Weekly video recordings of mother-infant interactional situations were assessed during the first three months of infants' life. Besides the face-to-face regulation, also the development of body contact and body stimulation and the warmth and contingency towards positive and negative infant signals will be examined. Moreover the maternal infant-directed language during these interactional situations will be analyzed in therms of its cultural codes. A culturally sensitive definition of interactional quality for the Nso sample will be developed.