Interacción madre-hijo y desarrollo mental infantil: Implicaciones para la atención temprana
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objective: We pretend to analyze the relation between the maternal sensitivity and the motherchild\ninteraction quality, and how the last affects child’s mental development in his/her first year.\nMethodology: The participants in this study were 19 children (11 boys and 8 girls) 12 month\nold, who were born in term and without pre or postnatal complications, with normal weight and high\nat the birth; and their respective mothers. The dyads came from intact families of medium socioeconomic\nlevel, residents in the Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia (Spain). The Mental Development\nof children was assessed with the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley, 1993); and the\nmother-child interaction was analyzed with the “CARE Index: Child-Adult Relation Experimental\nIndex “designed by Crittenden (2001).\nResults: Maternal sensitivity has a significant relation with the child’s cooperative behaviour;\nboth aspects together, promotes a synchronic and good-quality interaction; which is positive related\nwith better mental development indexes.\nConclusions: Maternal sensitivity is not an individual characteristic; it is a factor which emerges\nfrom the dynamic of the mother-child interactions. The relevance of this construct in the Early\nIntervention context is it relevance as a protective factor, in the implementation of intervention lines\nand the promotion of the infant’s development.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W208189829