Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Marymount University, USA;2. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA;3. Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK;4. UNICEF, New York, NY, USA;1. Division of Developmental Neuroscience, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;2. Department of Medical Innovation, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan;3. Department of Medical Physics and Engineering, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan;4. Department of Children and Women’s Health, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan;1. Department of Primary Education, University of Potsdam, Germany;2. Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany;3. Department of Inclusive Education, University of Potsdam, Germany;4. Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany;1. Early Cognitive Development Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia;2. ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia;3. Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
| |
| Abstract: | This report extends a previous cross-cultural study of synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions (Bornstein et al., 2015) to immigrant samples. Immigrant dyads from three cultures of origin (Japan, South Korea, South America) living in the same culture of destination (the United States) were compared to nonmigrant dyads in those same cultures of origin and to nonmigrant European American dyads living in the same culture of destination (the United States). This article highlights an underutilized analysis to assess synchrony in mother-infant interaction and extends cross-cultural research on mother-infant vocal interaction. Timing of onsets and offsets of maternal speech to infants and infant nondistress vocalizations were coded separately from 50-min recorded naturalistic observations of mothers and infants. Odds ratios were computed to analyze synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions. Synchrony was analyzed in three ways -- contingency of timed event sequences, mean differences in contingency by acculturation level and within dyads, and coordination of responsiveness within dyads. Immigrant mothers were contingently responsive to their infants’ vocalizations, but only Korean immigrant infants were contingently responsive to their mothers’ vocalizations. For the Japanese and South American comparisons, immigrant mothers were more contingently responsive than their infants (but not robustly so for South American immigrants). For the Korean comparison, mean differences in contingent responsiveness were found among acculturation groups (culture of origin, immigrant, culture of destination), but not between mothers and infants. Immigrant dyads’ mean levels of responsiveness did not differ. Immigrant mothers’ and infants’ levels of responsiveness were coordinated. Strengths and flexibility of the timed event sequential analytic approach to assessing synchrony in mother-infant interactions are discussed, particularly for culturally diverse samples. |
| |
| Keywords: | Mother-infant interaction Synchrony Timed event sequences Immigrant Japanese Korean South American |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
