Department of Psychology, York University.
Pain Res Manag. 2011 Jul-Aug;16(4):234-8. doi: 10.1155/2011/707615.
To investigate how maternal culture (ie, individualist versus collectivist) influences soothing techniques and infant distress.
Archival data were analyzed using a subsample of 80 motherinfant dyads selected from a larger database of infant pain expression.
Mothers belonging to the individualist group used more affection behaviours when attempting to regulate their infants' distress. No differences were observed in mothers' touching, holding, rocking, vocalizing, caregiving or distracting their infants. Mothers' culture did not appear to be related to the level of distress expressed by their infants.
These results suggest that the similarities in soothing and infant pain expression between individualist and collectivist cultures are more prominent than their differences.
探讨母系文化(即个人主义与集体主义)如何影响安抚技术和婴儿的痛苦。
利用从婴儿疼痛表达的较大数据库中选择的 80 对母婴对子的样本,对档案数据进行分析。
试图调节婴儿痛苦的个人主义群体的母亲使用了更多的情感行为。在母亲抚摸、抱持、摇晃、发声、照顾或分散婴儿注意力方面没有观察到差异。母亲的文化似乎与婴儿表达的痛苦程度无关。
这些结果表明,个人主义和集体主义文化在安抚和婴儿疼痛表达方面的相似之处比差异更为突出。