University of Leuven, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Research Unit Parenting and Special Education, Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 32, Box 3765, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
University of Leuven, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Research Unit Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Tiensestraat 102 - Box 3713, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Res Dev Disabil. 2020 Aug;103:103672. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2020.103672. Epub 2020 Jun 5.
Knowledge on the long-term interactive interplay between children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay and their parents is very scarce. We aimed to characterize the (in)variability and potential mutual influence of parent's interactional style and child interactive engagement throughout early childhood. Every six months over the course of two years, thirty-five parent-child dyads (children aged 6-59 months) living in Flanders (Belgium) or the Netherlands were video-taped during a 15-minute unstructured play situation. Video-taped observations were scored using the Child and Maternal Behavior Rating Scales. No consistent group-level trend was found. Within singular interactions, parent's responsive behavior and child interactive engagement (attention and initiation) seem to be strongly related. Initial child initiation seems to positively predict parents' achievement orientation and directive behavior two years later. Parental responsiveness might be an effective interactional strategy to increase child engagement and higher levels of engagement in children possibly can facilitate parental responsiveness within a concrete interaction. The more initiative children show, the more parents might have hope for developmental benefits resulting from a directive/achievement oriented approach. Further research is warranted applying more differentiated and dynamically evaluated outcome measures and a longer follow-up time frame, with specific attention to inter-individual differences.
关于认知和运动发育迟缓儿童与其父母之间长期相互作用的知识非常匮乏。我们旨在描述整个幼儿期父母互动方式和儿童互动参与的（不变）和潜在相互影响的特征。在两年的时间里，每隔六个月，35 对居住在佛兰德斯（比利时）或荷兰的父母-儿童二人组（6-59 个月大的儿童）在 15 分钟的非结构化游戏场景中进行录像。使用儿童和母婴行为评分量表对录像观察进行评分。没有发现一致的组水平趋势。在单一互动中，父母的反应行为和儿童的互动参与（注意力和主动性）似乎密切相关。最初的儿童主动性似乎可以积极预测两年后父母的成就取向和指令行为。父母的反应能力可能是一种有效的互动策略，可以提高儿童的参与度，而儿童更高的参与度可能会在具体的互动中促进父母的反应能力。表现出更多主动性的孩子，父母可能会对通过指令/成就导向的方法获得发展益处抱有更大的希望。进一步的研究需要应用更具差异化和动态评估的结果测量方法和更长的随访时间框架，并特别关注个体差异。
