Donnot Julien, Vauclair Jacques, Bréjard Vincent
Centre for Research in Psychology of Cognition, Language and Emotion (Centre PsyCLE), University of Provence, 29 Avenue R. Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France.
Infant Behav Dev. 2008 Sep;31(3):352-60. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.12.013. Epub 2008 Feb 14.
This study examines the relationships between infant holding preferences and maternal depression according to the newborn feeding mode. Links between depression and infant holding biases have been observed in mothers [Vauclair, J., Scola, C. (in press). Dépression, alexithymie et latéralisation dans la façon de porter un nouveau-né [Infant holding biases in relation to depression, alexithymia and laterality]. Annales Médico-psychologiques; Weatherill, R. P., Almerigi, J. B., Levendosky, A. A., Bogat, G. A., von Eye, A., & Harris, L. J. (2004). Is maternal depression related to side of infant holding? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 421-427] but the fact that breastfeeding has never been studied in relation to these two factors is surprising as breastfeeding has some influence on depression (e.g., [Mezzacappa, E. S., Guethlein, W., Vaz, N., & Bagiella, E. (2000). A preliminary study of breast-feeding and maternal symptomatology. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 22, 71-79]) and must also affect holding biases. Mothers who just gave birth (N=100) were tested few days after delivery. Measures of handedness, infant holding-side preferences, and level of depressive symptoms expressed by mothers (assessed with the CES-D scale) were collected via questionnaires. Asymmetries in emotional perception were assessed via a Chimeric Figure Task and a Dichotic Listening Task. Results showed that breastfeeding (1) reduced left-side bias for holding newborns and (2) was associated with lowest levels of depressive symptoms. Moreover, holding biases were related to maternal depression in bottle-feeding but not in breastfeeding mothers, namely that holding on the right-side while bottle-feeding was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. These results were not due to hemispheric specialization as auditory and visual asymmetries were similar between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding mothers. The discussion emphasizes the striking role of the early mother/child relationship's establishment on infant holding biases.
本研究根据新生儿喂养方式，考察婴儿抱持偏好与母亲抑郁之间的关系。母亲中已观察到抑郁与婴儿抱持偏好之间的联系[沃克莱尔，J.，斯科拉，C.（即将发表）。《抑郁症、述情障碍与抱新生儿方式的偏侧性》[与抑郁症、述情障碍和偏侧性相关的婴儿抱持偏好]。《医学心理学年鉴》；韦瑟里尔，R.P.，阿尔梅里吉，J.B.，莱文多斯基，A.A.，博加特，G.A.，冯·艾，A.，&哈里斯，L.J.（2004年）。母亲抑郁与抱婴儿的一侧有关吗？《国际行为发展杂志》，28，421 - 427]，但母乳喂养与这两个因素之间从未被研究过这一事实令人惊讶，因为母乳喂养对抑郁有一定影响（例如，[梅扎卡帕，E.S.，格特林，W.，瓦斯，N.，&巴吉埃拉，E.（2000年）。母乳喂养与母亲症状学的初步研究。《行为医学年鉴》，22，71 - 79]），而且必然也会影响抱持偏好。刚分娩的母亲（N = 100）在产后几天接受测试。通过问卷收集母亲的利手、抱婴儿侧偏好以及抑郁症状水平（用CES - D量表评估）的测量数据。通过嵌合体图形任务和双耳分听任务评估情绪感知的不对称性。结果表明，母乳喂养（1）减少了抱新生儿时的左侧偏好，（2）与最低水平的抑郁症状相关。此外，抱持偏好与瓶喂母亲的抑郁有关，但与母乳喂养母亲无关，也就是说，瓶喂时抱持在右侧与较高水平的抑郁症状相关。这些结果并非由于半球特化，因为母乳喂养和瓶喂母亲之间的听觉和视觉不对称性相似。讨论强调了早期母婴关系建立对婴儿抱持偏好的显著作用。
