Beebe Beatrice, Abdurokhmonova Gavkhar, Lee Sang Han, Dougalis Georgios, Champagne Frances, Rauh Virginia, Algermissen Molly, Herbstman Julie, Margolis Amy E
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Infant Behav Dev. 2024 Mar;74:101920. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101920. Epub 2024 Jan 17.
Although a considerable literature documents associations between early mother-infant interaction and cognitive outcomes in the first years of life, few studies examine the contributions of contingently coordinated mother-infant interaction to infant cognitive development. This study examined associations between the temporal dynamics of the contingent coordination of mother-infant face-to-face interaction at 4 months and cognitive performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at age one year in a sample of (N = 100) Latina mother-infant pairs. Split-screen videotaped interactions were coded on a one second time base for the communication modalities of infant and mother gaze and facial affect, infant vocal affect, and mother touch. Multi-level time-series models evaluated self- and interactive contingent processes in these modalities and revealed 4-month patterns of interaction associated with higher one-year cognitive performance, not identified in prior studies. Infant and mother self-contingency, the moment-to-moment probability that the individual's prior behavior predicts the individual's future behavior, was the most robust measure associated with infant cognitive performance. Self-contingency findings showed that more varying infant behavior was optimal for higher infant cognitive performance, namely, greater modulation of negative affect; more stable maternal behavior was optimal for higher infant cognitive performance, namely, greater likelihood of sustaining positive facial affect. Although interactive contingency findings were sparse, they showed that, when mothers looked away, or dampened their faces to interest or mild negative facial affect, infants with higher 12-month cognitive performance were less likely to show negative vocal affect. We suggest that infant ability to modulate negative affect, and maternal ability to sustain positive affect, may be mutually reinforcing, together creating a dyadic climate that is associated with more optimal infant cognitive development.
尽管有大量文献记载了早期母婴互动与生命最初几年认知结果之间的关联，但很少有研究探讨偶然性协调的母婴互动对婴儿认知发展的贡献。本研究在100对拉丁裔母婴样本中，考察了4个月大时母婴面对面互动的偶然性协调的时间动态与1岁时贝利婴儿发展量表认知表现之间的关联。分屏录像互动以1秒为时间基准，对婴儿和母亲的注视、面部表情、婴儿声音表情以及母亲触摸等沟通方式进行编码。多层次时间序列模型评估了这些方式中的自我和互动偶然性过程，揭示了与更高的1岁认知表现相关的4个月时的互动模式，这是先前研究中未发现的。婴儿和母亲的自我偶然性，即个体先前行为预测其未来行为的即时概率，是与婴儿认知表现相关的最有力指标。自我偶然性研究结果表明，婴儿行为变化更多对更高的婴儿认知表现最为有利，即对负面情绪有更大的调节；母亲行为更稳定对更高的婴儿认知表现最为有利，即保持积极面部表情的可能性更大。尽管互动偶然性的研究结果较少，但它们表明，当母亲看向别处，或面部表情转为感兴趣或轻度负面时，12个月认知表现较高的婴儿表现出负面声音表情的可能性较小。我们认为，婴儿调节负面情绪的能力和母亲保持积极情绪的能力可能相互促进，共同营造一种二元氛围，这与更优化的婴儿认知发展相关。
