Mother–toddler interaction patterns associated with maternal depression

Autor: Penny B. Jameson, Donna M. Gelfand, Douglas M. Teti, Elisabeth Kulcsar
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Development and Psychopathology. 9:537-550
ISSN: 1469-2198
0954-5794
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579497001296
Popis: Interactive coordination was observed in laboratory play interactions of pairs of 29 clinically depressed and 14 nondepressed mothers and their 13-29-m onth-old children (M = 18.9 months). Nondepressed mothers and their children displayed more interactive coordination than depressed-m other dyads ( p < .001). Depressed mothers were less likely to repair interrupted interactions, and their toddlers were less likely to maintain interactions than nondepressed controls. Toddlers m atched their nondepressed but not their depressed m others’ negative behavior rates. Results suggested that early interventions focus on training mothers to attend to, maintain, and repair m other-child interactions to more closely approxim ate normal levels of interactive coordination. Adaptive success in infancy requires develop­ ment of the baby’s ability to coordinate activi­ ties in the social and physical environment while maintaining affective equilibrium (Tronick & Cohn, 1989). In normal social devel­ opment, infants are helped by their mothers to develop effective strategies to coordinate their actions with those of interactional partners in a mutually satisfying manner. Tronick (1986) described interactions as coordinated when participants achieve a joint focus of attention on a mutual goal over a majority of the inter­ action period. Coordination may be accom­ plished by maintaining the interaction over an extended period of time with few breaks in Videotaped interactions analyzed in this study came from a longitudinal study directed by authors Gelfand and Teti and supported by NIM H grant num ber 41474. W e thank participants and the maternal depression research group
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