Infant Crying and Maternal Responsiveness

Bell, Silvia M.; Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1972.tb02075.x

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“…Other studies have emphasized a correlation between interpersonal touch and enhanced child development in the early years of life. In an observational study of infants and their mothers, conducted between the end of the infant's first month and the end of their first year, infants frequently touched by their mothers were comparatively more cooperative and independent and less anxious and rejecting than those whose mothers were inconsistent in their tactile support (Ainsworth 1979;Bell and Ainsworth 1972). The experience of early touch has also been found to be associated with personality later in life, in areas such as self-esteem, social competence, and satisfaction with life (Deethardt and Hines 1983;Fromme et al 1989;Jones and Brown 1996).…”

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The Effect of Interpersonal Touch During Childhood on Adult Attachment and Depression: A Neglected Area of Family and Developmental Psychology?

Takeuchi¹,

Miyaoka

Tomoda

et al. 2009

J Child Fam Stud

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Interpersonal touch has been little studied empirically as an indicator of parent-and peer-child intimacy. Undergraduate students (n = 390) were studied using a questionnaire survey regarding the frequencies of interpersonal touch by father, mother, same-sex peers, and opposite-sex peers during preschool ages, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, and grades 7-9, as well as their current attachment style to a romantic partner and current depression. A path model indicated that current depression was influenced significantly by poorer self-and otherimages as well as by fewer parental interpersonal touches throughout childhood. Other-image was influenced by early (up to grade 3) parental interpersonal touch. Our findings suggest that a lower frequency of parental touching during childhood influences the development of depression and contributes to a poorer image of an individual's romantic partner during later adolescence and early adulthood.

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The Effect of Interpersonal Touch During Childhood on Adult Attachment and Depression: A Neglected Area of Family and Developmental Psychology?

Takeuchi¹,

Miyaoka

Tomoda

et al. 2009

J Child Fam Stud

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“…For example, in a classic study, Bell and Ainsworth (1972) investigated the modification of infant crying in the first year of life. Learning theory and evolutionary attachment theory (Bowlby 1969) led to opposite predictions: According to learning theory (e.g., Gewirtz 1976), consistently responding to a crying infant will reinforce crying, and thus lead to its increase.…”

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Are stone-age genes created out of whole cloth? Evaluating claims about the evolution of behavior

Nash

2014

Dialect Anthropol

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This paper provides an overview of historical and current standard scientific practices for investigating the evolution of behavior. I argue that Evolutionary Psychology (EP) ignores its historical precedents-ethology and the instinct critics-and while acknowledging current perspectives-epigenetics and developmental systems theories-does so only in terms of lip service. In particular, EP does not investigate the dynamic interplay between genes and context that is essential for understanding the development and evolution of behavior. Thus, EP does not conform to the rigorous standards of biology or psychology, is often unresponsive to methodological critiques, skirts theoretical controversies, and is disconnected from a large body of scholarship on issues surrounding the evolution of behavior.

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“…Based on the work of Ainsworth and associates (Bell & Ainsworth, 1972;Blehar et al, 1977), Brazelton and collaborators (Brazelton et al, 1974), Field (1977), Stern (1974), and others, she is trained to recognize potential problems during the interaction, e.g., problems in the timing of social transactions; distance between the orientation of parent and child; frequency and duration of responses to each other; tone, volume, frequency of utterances; pauses between utterances. She also is trained to identify potential family difficulties, e.g., behavior problems in the older child or marital problems, which she regularly reviews with her supervisor and with the consultant social worker or pediatrician as necessary.…”

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The transactional model of early home intervention

Barrera

Rosenbaum

1986

Infant Ment. Health J.

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This article describes a developmental model for early home intervention and treatment of environmentally and biologically at‐risk infants and their parents: The Transactional Model of Home Intervention. The model identifies the development of both infants and parents as targets of intervention and considers their ongoing interactions or transactions within the family context as the vehicle of intervention. The child and his physical/social environment are conceptualized as actively influencing one another in their reciprocal transactions. An early intervention program based on this transactional model is described. The intervention is tailored to suit the needs of both child and parents and, more generally, the needs of the family. The intervention process involves a problem‐solving model of education by which parents acquire cognitive strategies that will enable them to assess the needs of their child and to design a program to fulfill these needs.

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Infant Crying and Maternal Responsiveness

Cited by 120 publications

References 7 publications

The Effect of Interpersonal Touch During Childhood on Adult Attachment and Depression: A Neglected Area of Family and Developmental Psychology?

The Effect of Interpersonal Touch During Childhood on Adult Attachment and Depression: A Neglected Area of Family and Developmental Psychology?

Are stone-age genes created out of whole cloth? Evaluating claims about the evolution of behavior

The transactional model of early home intervention

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