Donovan Wilberta, Taylor Nicole, Leavitt Lewis
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
Infant Behav Dev. 2007 Aug;30(3):436-52. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.12.008. Epub 2007 Jan 22.
This study examined the role of maternal cognitive sets regarding infant gender on maternal response; participants were 69 mothers, each with a 6-month-old infant. Signal detection methodology was used to assess maternal sensory sensitivity and response bias to subtle changes in positive and negative infant facial expressions as a function of maternal self-efficacy, operationalized by low, moderate, and high illusory control, and maternal perceptions of infant gender, experimental manipulated through labeling. For the positive expression, mothers who received the female manipulation exhibited greater sensory sensitivity and responded with a less conservative response bias compared with mothers who received the male manipulation. For the negative expression, only mothers with high illusory control were differentially sensitive to the manipulation; those who received the male manipulation exhibited less sensory sensitivity than those who received the female manipulation. Results are discussed in the context of the gendered socialization of emotion.
本研究考察了母亲关于婴儿性别的认知定势对母亲反应的作用；参与者为69位母亲，每位母亲都有一个6个月大的婴儿。采用信号检测方法，以母亲的自我效能感（通过低、中、高虚幻控制来操作化）以及母亲对婴儿性别的认知（通过标签进行实验操纵）为函数，评估母亲对婴儿正面和负面面部表情细微变化的感官敏感性和反应偏向。对于正面表情，与接受男性操纵的母亲相比，接受女性操纵的母亲表现出更高的感官敏感性，且反应偏向更不保守。对于负面表情，只有具有高虚幻控制的母亲对操纵有不同的敏感性；接受男性操纵的母亲比接受女性操纵的母亲表现出更低的感官敏感性。研究结果在情感的性别社会化背景下进行了讨论。
