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Modalities of Infant–Mother Interaction in Japanese, Japanese American Immigrant, and European American Dyads

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Cultural variation in relations and moment-to-moment contingencies of infant-mother person-oriented and object-oriented interactions were compared in 118 Japanese, Japanese American immigrant, and European American dyads with 5.5-month-olds. Infant and mother person-oriented behaviors were related in all cultural groups, but infant and mother object-oriented behaviors were related only among European Americans. Infant and mother behaviors within each modality were mutually contingent in all groups. Culture moderated lead-lag relations: Japanese infants were more likely than their mothers to respond in object-oriented interactions; European American mothers were more likely than their infants to respond in person-oriented interactions. Japanese American dyads behaved like European American dyads. Interactions, infant effects, and parent socialization findings are set in cultural and accultural models of infant-mother transactions.

Source: Child Development

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01822.x

Authors: Marc H Bornstein, Linda R Cote, O Maurice Haynes, Joan T D Suwalsky, Roger Bakeman

Institutions: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Marymount University, Georgia State University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Animal Learning Development

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: Child and Family Development across the First Two Decades of Life