Maternal rejection and infant play in rhesus monkey infants

Tartabini, Angelo; Simpson, M. J. A.

doi:10.1007/bf02442069

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“…It can be confirmed the idea that with maternal rejection the infant's initiatives with others are less rather than more playful, although the overall rates of social contact initiatives may not be less frequent [5,6]. Moreover the maternal rejection does not depend on the fact that the infants were creating a nuisance by a high rate of playing.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…One argument arising from the results already obtained [see 5,6,11] is that the infants' social activities are rather different from each other, especially in the cases in which the social contact is preceded by maternal rejection. This means that we have to dismiss the idea that rejecting behaviour has a generic effect on the social behaviour of all infants when they are far from their mothers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Conflict arises when the mother begins to limit the infant's access to her nipple. In rhesus monkeys some data [5,6] indicate that the reduction of access to the mother's nipple increases dramatically at the age of about three or four months, a little earlier than the four to five months reported by Gomendio [20].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Through evolution, humans have lost this ability. However, this loss has been substituted by greater maternal attention and care toward the child [4,5,6]. Also, among different species of monkeys body contact between mother and offspring develops differently and results in differences in offspring care.…”

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Rejecting Behaviour and Separation Initiatives as Aspects of the Mother-infant Independence Dynamics in Rhesus Monkeys

Tartabini¹

2015

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This paper suggests that attachment, rejecting behaviour and independence initiatives among rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) constitute the most critical elements of mother-infant interactions. Results of previous studies of different family groups indicate that both the mothers' rejecting behaviour and the infants' independence initiatives (or social activities) are not homogeneus but instead differ from each other, depending on subjects' individual differences and on the diverse relationships and experiences among members of the family groups. These findings underline the relevance of a methodology that takes into account individual, dyadic and social variables among subjects. This complex of variables represents a potentially useful methodology for studies on the attachment-independence process in mother-infant interactions in rhesus monkeys and in many other species of monkeys.

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Rejecting Behaviour and Separation Initiatives as Aspects of the Mother-infant Independence Dynamics in Rhesus Monkeys

Tartabini¹

2015

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“…They were cousins but the difference among them was that Sebastian's mother (Amalia) was lightly sub-dominant to Gringo's mother (Harriet). The hierarchical order of all the groups was established in prevoius studies (Tartabini, et al, 1986(Tartabini, et al, -1987.…”

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AQS/SBQS: Re-adapted Q-sort Procedure To Study Infant Differences In Rhesus Monkey Attachment Behaviour

Tartabini¹

2015

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It can be affirmed that the Q-sorting procedure has not been applied until now to depict the individual attachment differences in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). In this research the Q-sort test procedure in which descriptive items (93 for AQS and 101 for SBQS) put in order ranging from Most Descriptive to Least Descriptive both for mothers-infants observed in two subsequent years (First Year and Second Year), was applied the way that Stony Brook University researchers Everett Waters and Kathleen Deane did for assessing individual difference relationships in children. In this study, the application of this new method to monkeys shows significant change between the First Year and the Second Year in some subjects both in AQS or SBQS. Some of infant groups' conditions (the presence of peers for play behaviour, aunts, older sisters, etc.) influenced the individual behaviour of the focus subjects (6 different composition groups kept in 6 different and not-communicating cages). In conclusion what is the advantage of using the Q-sort method in this research? Why have we not used an ordinary ethological observation method, as was done in many other studies on Attachment behaviour in rhesus monkeys? The main reason is that the Q-sorting can reveal complex details and nuances of behaviour that are impossible to obtain through ordinary ethological observation.

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Maternal rejection but not protectiveness predicts juvenile Japanese macaque behavior without direct maternal influence

Kuběnová,

MacIntosh

2024

American J Primatol

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Primates show large interindividual variability in the character and quantity of interactions between mothers and their immature offspring. Multiple studies have documented associations between maternal behavior and the occurrence or frequency of certain behaviors among offspring, but it remains unclear whether and how early maternal interactions generally affect behavioral development in offspring. We followed two wild groups of Japanese macaques on Yakushima island and investigated the relationship between maternal behavior and several types of behavior performed by 35 juvenile offspring. We further asked if the impact of maternal behavior on juvenile behavior persists regardless of the distance between mother and offspring, testing whether the influence extends beyond cases when the mother is nearby. We found that juveniles whose mothers frequently rejected them approached and played with others more often, independent of their mother's presence. Juveniles of more protective mothers were in proximity to fewer other individuals and played less, but only if their mothers were nearby. Maternal rejection appears to exert a generalized effect on offspring behavior that endures when mothers are absent. In contrast, effects of maternal protectiveness may be temporary and/or reflect direct maternal influences, such as active intervention in offspring interactions, or effects of the mother's own social relationships on offspring interactions. Our results suggest that understanding how maternal behavior affects offspring development requires paying attention to the context of juvenile behavior, including the mother's distance from her offspring.

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Maternal rejection and infant play in rhesus monkey infants

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Rejecting Behaviour and Separation Initiatives as Aspects of the Mother-infant Independence Dynamics in Rhesus Monkeys

Rejecting Behaviour and Separation Initiatives as Aspects of the Mother-infant Independence Dynamics in Rhesus Monkeys

AQS/SBQS: Re-adapted Q-sort Procedure To Study Infant Differences In Rhesus Monkey Attachment Behaviour

Maternal rejection but not protectiveness predicts juvenile Japanese macaque behavior without direct maternal influence

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