University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Laterality. 2011 May;16(3):280-91. doi: 10.1080/13576500903548390. Epub 2010 Jun 9.
Among the various interactions between an adult and an infant, postural behaviours and their lateral biases expressed by adults for holding an infant represent a growing field of investigation. To better understand the building up of mother/child relationships, the current study reports data concerning infant-holding biases collected in a new population, namely childcare professionals, where experience with and emotional relationships with infants could be classified as intermediate between basic and advanced. Two sub-populations of childcare professionals were studied: women who work in maternity hospitals and women who work in day-care centres. Their infant-holding side preferences were correlated with emotional perceptive biases to ascertain whether hemispheric specialisation influences holding side biases as well as in basic holding relationships. Results showed that childcare professionals behaved like mothers, which means like participants with advanced holding relationships. The discussion emphasises the complexity of infant-holding behaviours and the importance of considering the nature of holding relationships in the study of side-of-hold biases.
在成人与婴儿之间的各种互动中，成人抱婴儿的姿势行为及其侧向偏好是一个日益受到关注的研究领域。为了更好地理解母婴关系的建立，本研究报告了在一个新人群（即儿童保育专业人员）中收集的有关婴儿抱持偏好的数据，他们与婴儿的经验和情感关系可以被归类为基本和高级之间的中间状态。研究了两类儿童保育专业人员：在妇产科医院工作的女性和在日托中心工作的女性。她们的婴儿抱持侧偏好与情感感知偏好在一起进行了相关分析，以确定半球专业化是否会影响抱持侧偏好以及基本抱持关系。结果表明，儿童保育专业人员的行为与母亲相似，这意味着与具有高级抱持关系的参与者相似。讨论强调了婴儿抱持行为的复杂性，以及在研究抱持侧偏好时考虑抱持关系性质的重要性。
