A three-month-old infant and his mother were observed for this study. The infant’s cognitive, emotional and social development was observed through the infant’s responsiveness with his mother. The responsiveness of the infant’s mother to her baby’s cues was also measured.
There is a significant impact of the mother-infant relationship on the social competency of an infant to the people around them. Evaluation of the mother-infant relationship was made at three months. Social competency was evaluated in three-week day camp sessions when the children were about three months old. The mother’s receptiveness at three months was associated to the child’s social skill with adults, while the infant’s receptiveness to mother at three months was not connected with procedures of social competence with any adults or with peers. Organization at one year was correlated to the achievement of offers for relations, intricacy of bids, and whether the child spent time near peers or near adults at three years, as well as to camp staff members’ ratings of social competence with peers and with adults. Staff ratings of social competence with both peers and adults consistently correlated positively with more objective behavioral measures.
Mothers were asked to feed their babies during a 30-minute observation. The observation took place in a hospital clinic when the mother conveys her baby for a three-month check up with his doctor. There were two observers, employing a catalog of around 120 pre-determined behavioral codes, documented the incidence of particular behaviors of the mother and the infant each focusing attention on one member of the group. The infant’s skill in feeding, responsiveness, frequency of cues to the mother and general temperament were measured using a six-point scale. The mother was also evaluated through the her skill in feeding baby, responsiveness to her baby’s cues, interest in her infant, amount of talking to her baby, face-to-face contact, closeness in cuddling and expression of positive emotion. The scores of both the mother and the infant’s responsiveness were all computed using a mean, resulting to a responsiveness score for the mother and a responsiveness score for the infant at three months of birth life. Because of their face validity, these measures and not measures derived from frequencies and durations of discrete behaviors are analyzed. Mothers and their babies were also observed and rated just before hospital discharge
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