Cortisol reactivity, maternal sensitivity, and infant preference for mother's familiar face and rhyme in 6-month-old infants.

This study investigated how cortisol (stress) reactivity and mothers' behavioural sensitivity affect familiarity preferences in 6-month-old infants. Relations between sensitivity and stress were explored using saliva samples taken from mothers and infants before, and 20 min after, two preferential l...

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Publicado en:Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 143 - 168
Autores principales: Thompson LA, Trevathan WR
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2009
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          Thompson LA
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          Cognition In Infancy and Childhood
          Hydrocortisone Metabolism
          Mother-Child Relations
          Mothers Psychosocial Factors
          Adult
          Analysis of Variance
          Child Development
          Coefficient alpha
          Descriptive Statistics
          Face
          Female
          Infant
          Infant Behavior
          Interrater Reliability
          Male
          Nonexperimental Studies
          One-Tailed Test
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Photography
          Reading
          Stress, Psychological
          T-Tests
          Two-Tailed Test
          Videorecording
          Visual Perception In Infancy and Childhood
          Human
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Female
          Male
      ab: This study investigated how cortisol (stress) reactivity and mothers' behavioural sensitivity affect familiarity preferences in 6-month-old infants. Relations between sensitivity and stress were explored using saliva samples taken from mothers and infants before, and 20 min after, two preferential looking experiments. Photographs and voice recordings from infants' mothers were incorporated into standard visual preference tasks. Sensitivity was assessed by determining the degree of behavioural synchrony between mother and infant from a 10-min interaction period preceding the preferential looking experiments. Results showed that decreasing infant cortisol reactivity and greater maternal sensitivity were associated with familiarity preferences for mother's face stimuli. For the experiment with voice stimuli, a sex difference was obtained in the relationship between the directionality of cortisol reactivity and familiarity preferences. Results are related to a parallel study with 3-month-old infants, and issues are discussed in terms of infants' developing emotional independence from mother.
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