Department of Behavioral Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
Department of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Infant Behav Dev. 2019 Nov;57:101367. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.101367. Epub 2019 Oct 23.
The effect of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact on Ghanaian infants' developing social expectations for maternal behavior was investigated. Infants with high and low mother-infant skin-to-skin contact experience in the infants' first month engaged with their mothers in a Still Face Task at 6 weeks of age. Infants with high skin-to-skin contact experience, but not those with low skin-to-skin contact experience, demonstrated the still face effect with their smiles. Infants with both high and low skin-to-skin contact experience demonstrated the still face effect with their visual attention. The behaviors of the Ghanaian infants and their mothers during the task were compared to archival evidence of Canadian mother-infant dyads' behaviors in skin-to-skin and control groups who engaged in the Still Face Task at the infant ages of 1 and 2 months. Similarities and differences between the behaviors of the mother-infant dyads in the two cultures were assessed.
研究了母婴皮肤接触对加纳婴儿发育中的母婴行为社会期望的影响。在婴儿出生后的第一个月，具有高和低母婴皮肤接触经验的婴儿在 6 周大时参与了静止面孔任务。具有高皮肤接触经验的婴儿，但没有低皮肤接触经验的婴儿，用微笑表现出静止面孔效应。具有高和低皮肤接触经验的婴儿都用视觉注意力表现出静止面孔效应。在任务期间，加纳婴儿及其母亲的行为与加拿大母婴对子的行为档案证据进行了比较，这些母婴对子在婴儿 1 个月和 2 个月大时分别处于皮肤接触组和对照组，参与了静止面孔任务。评估了两种文化中母婴对子行为的相似性和差异。
