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Maternal Sensitivity: Vocalization During Infant Feedings
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The relationship between sensitive maternal behavior and mother-infant vocalization during feedings was examined in an effort to determine this situational meaning of Ainsworth's concept of sensitivity. Ss were 28 white, middle-class mothers and their infants. Excerpts of home feedings videotaped at 6 and 9 months were coded for frequency of contingent vocal interaction and quality of vocal affect. Sensitive mothers were distinguished from insensitive mothers at each age period by differing vocal patterns. At 6 months, infants of sensitive mothers vocalized significantly less than did infants of insensitive mothers. Mothers in both groups responded to their infants' vocalizations equally as often. At 9 months, infants in both groups vocalized the same amount, while sensitive mothers vocalized more often in response to their infants than did insensitive mothers. The only significant difference in vocal affect was found in the greater positive affect among sensitive mothers at 9 months.
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- Ainsworth M. D. S., 1969, Stimulation in Early Infancy
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- Authors
- Schlansker, J. T.
- Affiliations
- Intercultural Development Research Association (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schlansker, Jill Thrift
- Venue
- The Journal of Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1980-07
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 157-165
- ISSN
- 0022-3980 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-1019
- OpenAlex
- W2048254426
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2020: 1
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- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- maternal sensitivity, mother-infant interaction, infant feeding, vocalizations, infant vocalizations, Ainsworth, infant development
- MeSH terms
- Affect, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant Care, Maternal Behavior, Mother-Child Relations, Verbal Behavior
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