Exploring the relationship between mother-infant interactions, maternal interoceptive sensibility and body part vocabulary development among 6 to 18 month old infants
| Autor: | Drysdale, Rosie, Tsakiris, Manos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Infancy
Social touch Mother-infant dyad Mother-infant tactile behaviours Life Sciences Bodily self Development Embodied interactions Vocabulary development Social and Behavioral Sciences Interoceptive sensibility Interoception FOS: Psychology Body image Touch Developmental Psychology Psychology Caregiver-infant dyad Child Psychology Mother-infant interaction Body-part vocabulary Body satisfaction in pregnancy |
| DOI: | 10.17605/osf.io/stbja |
| Popis: | Research has shown that neural indices associated with interoceptive processing in the parental brain shape long-term child social and emotional outcomes, and are mediated by caregiving practices (Abraham et al., 2019). Caregiving practices form mechanisms through which parents actively infer from their children’s interoceptive and emotional states and manage the regulation of these states, by resolving allostatic demands such as changes in temperature (Atzil, Gao, Fradkin & Feldman Barrett, 2018). In particular, optimal affective non-verbal and verbal communication and embodied interactions, such as caressing and stroking, provide sensory channels through which the infant and caregiver express affection and emotion (Field, 2010). These bodily interactions also provide a foundation for learning about one’s own and another individual’s body parts (Fausey, Jayaraman and Smith, 2016), and likely contribute to children’s understanding and production of body part words. Although the sensory and affective components of caregiver-infant interactions have been thoroughly investigated, little is known about whether the extent to which mothers engage in parent-infant tactile behaviours may be influenced by the way mothers perceive their own ability to be aware of, and pay attention to, interoceptive bodily signals. In a sample of mothers with 6 to 18 month old children, we will examine mothers’ reported frequency of stroking, holding and affective behaviours with their children, alongside mothers’ self-reported general tendency to attend to and be aware of interoceptive signals. To assess whether cognitive-evaluative attitudes towards one’s body and tactile sensations influences mother-infant tactile behaviours, we will explore the possible contribution of mothers' retrospective attitudes towards their body during pregnancy, as well as their general attitudes towards social touch. Finally, we will examine the relationship between mother-infant stroking, holding and affective behaviours, and infants’ comprehension and production of words relating to body parts. |
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