Speech, Language, and Hearing Department, Leader Center, Human Services Building, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA 16444, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Aug;113(1):281-99. doi: 10.2466/10.17.21.28.PMS.113.4.281-299.
This study examined the relation between mothers' sensitive responsiveness to their children and the children's expressive language skills during early childhood. Reciprocal effects were tested with dyads of mothers and their children participating in the National Institute of Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Sensitive maternal interactions positively affected children's later expressive language in the second and third years of life. Although maternal sensitivity predicted later language skills in children, children's language did not affect later maternal sensitivity as indicated in a structural equation model. These results do not support the 1975 transactional model of child development of Sameroff and Chandler. A consistent pattern of sensitivity throughout infancy and early childhood indicates the importance of fostering maternal sensitivity in infancy for prevention or remediation of expressive language problems in young children.
本研究考察了母亲对孩子的敏感反应与孩子在幼儿期的表达性语言技能之间的关系。通过参与美国国立卫生研究院和人类发展研究早期儿童保育和青年发展的母子二人组测试了互惠效应。敏感的母婴互动对儿童在第二和第三年的后续表达性语言产生了积极影响。尽管母亲的敏感性预测了儿童以后的语言技能，但正如结构方程模型所示，儿童的语言并没有影响以后母亲的敏感性。这些结果不支持 Sameroff 和 Chandler 于 1975 年提出的儿童发展的交互模型。整个婴儿期和幼儿期的敏感性一致模式表明，培养婴儿期母亲的敏感性对于预防或纠正幼儿表达性语言问题非常重要。
