Orr Edna, Kashy Rosenbaum Gabriela
Graduate School, Gordon College of Education, Haifa, Israel.
Multidisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel.
Infancy. 2023 May;28(3):619-633. doi: 10.1111/infa.12531. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
This study aimed to focus on a niche that has not yet been investigated in infants' gesture studies that is the effect of the prior context of one specific gestural behavior (gives) on maternal behavior. For this purpose, we recruited 23 infants at 11 and 13 months of age yielded 246 giving gesture bouts that were performed in three contexts: typical when the object was offered immediately, contingent on exploration, and contingent on play. The analysis revealed that maternal responses to infants' giving gestures varied and were affected by their age and gesture context. Hence, mothers amended their responses according to the background that generated each gesture. The number of verbal responses to infants' giving gestures decreased as the infants aged, whereas the number of pretense responses increased. For infants aged 11 months, mothers generally provided motor responses to typical gestures. However, for infants aged 13 months, this trend declined and was replaced by a strong positive correlation between giving gestures contingent on play and verbal responses. We concluded that the type of activity with objects prior to employing giving gestures could enhance infants' symbolic skills because caregivers monitor the contingent act that yields the gesture that shapes their response.
本研究旨在聚焦婴儿手势研究中一个尚未被探究的细分领域，即一种特定手势行为（给予）的先前情境对母亲行为的影响。为此，我们招募了23名11个月和13个月大的婴儿，他们共做出了246次给予手势动作，这些动作在三种情境下进行：当物体立即被提供时为典型情境、取决于探索情境以及取决于玩耍情境。分析表明，母亲对婴儿给予手势的反应各不相同，且受到婴儿年龄和手势情境的影响。因此，母亲会根据产生每个手势的背景来调整她们的反应。随着婴儿年龄增长，对婴儿给予手势的言语反应数量减少，而假装反应的数量增加。对于11个月大的婴儿，母亲通常会对典型手势做出动作反应。然而，对于13个月大的婴儿，这种趋势有所下降，取而代之的是取决于玩耍的给予手势与言语反应之间的强正相关。我们得出结论，在做出给予手势之前与物体进行的活动类型可以提高婴儿的象征技能，因为照顾者会监测产生手势的偶然行为，而这种行为会塑造他们的反应。
