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Mother-Infant Synchrony during Infant Feeding
MOTHER-INFANT SYNCHRONY DURING INFANT FEEDING By Barbara A. Reyna, PhD A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010. Major Director: Rita H. Pickler, PhD Endowed …
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Sex Differences in Mother-Infant Interaction
… in infancy to promote sex differences in infant behavior. Therefore, the present study sought to examine how sex differences in maternal behavior interact with differences in infant behavior. Maternal and infant behaviors were analyzed within the still-face paradigm, a paradigm which …
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An evaluation of a mother-infant seminar
There have been the formation of mother-infant support groups due to an awareness that women need support in their role as mother. The fifty-three women studied attended An Ongoing Seminar Series: Mothers and Infants in Alexandria, Virginia. The study was an exploratory, descriptive collection of …
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Childbirth experiences and mother-infant relationships in Uganda
… impact of maternal experiences on the mother and her baby in those countries. There is evidence from high income countries that the effects of posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth on mothers and their families can be long lasting. The aim of this exploratory mixed methods …
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The quality of mother-infant interactions in Khayelitsha
… depression and its effects on the face-to-face mother-infant interactions. Murray et at. (1996) conducted a research study of this kind in Britain. Results obtained in the study were used for comparisons with those of the current study, focused on investigating the quality of the face-to-face …
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The predictive value of role supplementation on mother-infant interaction
… the effect of role supplementation on mother-infant interaction. Sixty caucasian primiparas between 20-30 years of age were randomly placed in experimental and control groups. The experimental group received role supplementation on the second postpartum day in the form of support of the …
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Breastfeeding after a caesarean section: Mother-infant health trade-offs
… research that identifies distinct aspects of mother-infant interactions altered by this birth mode, my research explored the interrelated obstacles to breastfeeding from the mothers’ perspectives as the experiences were unfolding. I apply Trivers’s (1974) parent-offspring conflict model to …
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Emotional Availability and Touch among Deaf and Hearing Mother-Infant Dyads
… and their hearing or deaf/hard of hearing infants (Pipp-Siegel, Blair, Deas, Pressman, and Yoshinaga-Itano, 1998). The current study is a constructive replication because it examines EA and touch, which are the same constructs used in the Pipp-Siegel et al. (1998) study, but with the …
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Emotional Availability and Touch among Deaf and Hearing Mother-Infant Dyads
… and their hearing or deaf/hard of hearing infants (Pipp-Siegel, Blair, Deas, Pressman, and Yoshinaga-Itano, 1998). The current study is a constructive replication because it examines EA and touch, which are the same constructs used in the Pipp-Siegel et al. (1998) study, but with the …
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Mother-infant interaction and the development of mastery motivation in infancy
Infant motivation towards competence or mastery is said to be enhanced by contingent environmental feedback (White, 1959). This theory has been supported by research into the contingent responsiveness of the infant caretaking environment (e.g. Vondra & Belsky, 1989). Other caregiving variables have …
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The Role of Infant Locomotor Onset in Shaping Mother-Infant Communication
This study examines the relation between infant locomotor onset and emotional communication during prohibition scenes. Forty-one infants were videotaped at home with their mothers when the infants were 6 and 8 months of age. At 6 months all infants were pre-locomotor. At 8 months 23 infants were …
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A process-oriented approach in the evaluation of mother-infant literacy interactions
… early literacy intervention program aimed at mothers and their infants. Twenty intervention and eighteen control Mexican-American or Hispanic mother-infant dyads were observed in their homes while engaging in a book sharing interaction. In order to assess the effectiveness of the intervention …
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Early manifestations of aggression in infants of high risk mother-infant dyads
… füllten Fragebögen über ihre Kleinkinder (The Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment [ITSEA], Carter & Briggs-Gowan, 1993) und über sich selber aus (The Parenting Stress Index [PSI], Abidin, 1990, The Symptom CheckList-90-Revised [SCL-90-R], Derogatis, 1986, The Demographic …
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Mother-infant separation in prison: problematising attachment theory in policy and practice
… 2009; IAP, 2017). This thesis considers mother-child separations in English prisons from the perspectives of mothers and prison staff, alongside a critical examination of the use of attachment theory in prison policy and practice. Using a critical realist approach, this mixed-methods …
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Early attachment behavior in mother-infant dyad: a study on Maternal Physical Engagement
… types of physical proximity and contact between mothers and infants across different countries during the early child stage of life, and to discuss how those activities are modulated by contrasting cultural styles. We have compared the way in which mothers are physical engaged with their children …
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Mother-Infant Interactions in a Free-Ranging Population of Pigtail Macaques (Macaca nemestrina)
… Southern pigtail macaques to better understand mother-infant relationships. I observed five to six mother-infant dyads from April 2016 to September 2016 in the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. I used focal sampling methods to score mother and infant behaviors from two …
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