Maternal Sensitivity and Child Responsiveness: Associations with Social Context, Maternal Characteristics, and Child Characteristics in a Multivariate Analysis

Abstract

This study examined unique associations of multiple distal context variables (family socioeconomic status [SES], maternal employment, and paternal parenting) and proximal maternal (personality, intelligence, and knowledge; behavior, self-perceptions, and attributions) and child (age, gender, representation, language, and sociability) characteristics with maternal sensitivity and child responsiveness in 254 European American mothers and their firstborn 20-month-olds. Specific unique relations emerged in hierarchical regression analyses. Mothers who worked fewer hours per week and reported less dissonance in their husbands' didactic parenting, whose children spoke using more vocabulary, and who reported less limit setting in their parenting and attributed their parenting failures to internal causes were observed to be more sensitive in their interactions with their children. Children in higher SES families, whose mothers worked fewer hours and attributed their parenting failures to internal causes, and who themselves used more vocabulary were observed to be more responsive in their interactions with their mothers. Although potential associations are many, when considered together, unique associations with maternal sensitivity and child responsiveness are few, and some are shared whereas others are unique.

Relación Entre Mentalización y Sensibilidad de Madres de Infantes de Un Año de Edad y su Efecto en su Desarrollo Socioemocional

“…Estudios anteriores ya han descrito que el NSE influye en el DSE infantil (Bornstein et al, 2007;Landry et al, 2001). Los resultados sugieren, además, que las madres de NSE bajo tienden a evidenciar una disminución de su comportamiento sensible y mentalizador, lo cual concuerda con lo reportado por otros estudios (Emmen et al, 2012;Farkas et al, 2015;Landry et al, 2001;Santelices et al, 2015).…”

“…De ellos, el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) familiar es el que ha sido más estudiado: un mayor NSE ha demostrado predecir una mayor calidad en la sensibilidad materna (Emmen, Malda, Mesman, Ekmekci & van IJzendoorn, 2012;Farkas et al, 2015;Landry et al, 2001;Santelices et al, 2015) y el DSE infantil (Bornstein, Hendricks, Haynes & Painter, 2007;Landry et al, 2001), siendo, por tanto, una variable importante de considerar.…”

Nursing Approach in Accordance with ''Parents-Child Interaction Model'': Review

“…9,28 Fakat, çocuğun ebeveyn ile arasındaki etkileşimi etkileyen bir engele sahip olması, uyumaya meyilli olması, istenmeyen cinsiyette olması, bebek bakımında diğer kişilerden destek alamama, zorlu doğum süreci, ağrı ve yorgunluk gibi çevresel faktörler ebeveyn-çocuk etkileşimini negatif yönde etkileyebilir. 29,30 Ebeveynlerin bebeği önemsememe, dikkate almama, kendisinden uzak ve uygun olmayan pozisyonda tutma, dokunmaktan, kucak lamaktan ve bebeğe bakım vermekten korkma gibi uyumsuz davranışlar göstermesine neden olabilir. 10,15,31,32 İPUÇLARINA DUYARLILIĞI ARTIRMA Barnard'ın ebeveyn-çocuk etkileşim modelinin odak noktasını ebeveyn-çocuk-çevre arasında etkileşim süreci oluşturur.…”

Social-emotional behaviors in African-American toddlers : the role of risk and protective factors.

“…Caregiver sensitivity and parenting strategies, such as family routine and parenting structure and control, function as protective factors and buffer the effects of the deficiency in social-emotional skills (Bornstein, Hendricks, Haynes, & Painter, 2007) Alternatively, primary caregivers' depression characterized by disengagement, hostility, critical and less sensitive caregiver-child interactions has been identified as a risk factor and is associated with deficits in social-emotional skills in both majority (Field, Pickens, Fox, Nawrocki, & et aI., 1995) and minority families (Aikens, Coleman, & Barbarin, 2008;Koblinsky, Kuvalanka, & Randolph, 2006b). As noted above, these risk factors can be cumulative.…”

“…Murray & Brody, 1999). Bornstein, Hendricks, Haynes, and Painter (2007) expanded on the ecological/risk and resilience model and argued that within the family system which influences the child's development and maternal sensitivity, there are three domains of influence: maternal personal characteristics, child personal characteristics and maternal social context. These three domains are organized in a nested arrangement of distal-to-proximal in relation to the child (see Figure I) with the child's personal characteristics buffered by the mother's personal characteristics and the mother's social context (Bornstein, et aI., 2007).…”