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The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The 'Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System'.
Marette AbdelmasehYvonne BohrGemma Pons-salvadorRosa M. TrenadoM. Angeles Cerezosubject
Socioemotional selectivity theoryProcess (engineering)05 social sciencesPerspective (graphical)Infant050105 experimental psychologyMother-Child RelationsMaternal sensitivityCaregiversMother child interactionInfant BehaviorDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesDimension (data warehouse)ContingencyConstruct (philosophy)Psychology050104 developmental & child psychologyCognitive psychologydescription
Abstract Caregiver-child interaction is known to play a central role in children’s socioemotional development, yet the diversity of measures commonly used to evaluate it call into question the nature of the construct being assessed. Contingency within caregiver-child interactions has been identified as a key dyadic process that requires taking a temporal perspective to evaluating interactions. The Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System is a psychometrically sound measure that sequentially code the flow of interactive and non-interactive behaviours within a caregiver-infant system. Its use of the framework of nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) expands our understanding of contingent caregiver-infant dyadic behaviour.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-01 | Infant behaviordevelopment |