Six-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency and 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies |
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Authors: | Beebe Beatrice Jaffe Joseph Buck Karen Chen Henian Cohen Patricia Blatt Sidney Kaminer Tammy Feldstein Stanley Andrews Howard |
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Affiliation: | New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. beebebe@pi.cpmc.colombia.edu |
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Abstract: | Associations of 6-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency with 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies during face-to-face play were investigated in 126 dyads. Infant and mother face, gaze, touch, and vocal quality were coded second by second from split-screen videotape. Self- and interactive contingencies were defined as auto- and lagged cross-correlation, respectively, using multilevel time-series models. Statistical significance was defined as p<.05. Regarding self-contingency, (a) more self-critical mothers showed primarily lowered self-contingency, whereas their infants showed both lowered and heightened, and (b) infants of more dependent mothers showed primarily lowered self-contingency, whereas findings were absent in mothers. Regarding interactive contingency, (a) more self-critical mothers showed lowered attention and emotion contingencies but heightened contingent touch coordination with infant touch, and (b) more dependent mothers and their infants showed heightened facial/vocal interactive contingencies. Thus, maternal self-criticism and dependency have different effects on mother-infant communication. |
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