Whitt J K, Casey P H
Child Dev. 1982 Aug;53(4):948-56.
This study examined the impact of intervention provided in the context of pediatric health supervision visits on the mother-infant relationship during the first 6 months of life. 32 mother-infant dyads were randomly assigned at birth to either an intervention or attention control group, each of which received routine well-child care plus discussions regarding infant social development or accident prevention and nutrition, respectively. Blind assessment of infant and mother behavior frequencies, responsive behavior sequences, and affective relationship characteristics during a 21-min play observation revealed more sensitivity, cooperativeness, appropriateness of interaction, and appropriateness of play by the intervention group pairs, although differences in Bayley Mental Scales and the Uzgiris and Hunt subscales did not attain significance. Post hoc inspection of the behavioral correlates of the affective relationship characteristics provided support for molar assessment of mother-infant interaction as an adjunct to contemporary methods of behavioral microanalytic study.
本研究考察了在儿科健康监督访视背景下提供的干预措施对婴儿出生后头6个月母婴关系的影响。32对母婴在出生时被随机分为干预组或注意力控制组，两组分别接受常规儿童健康护理，并分别就婴儿社交发育、事故预防和营养问题进行讨论。在21分钟的游戏观察中，对婴儿和母亲的行为频率、反应性行为序列以及情感关系特征进行盲法评估，结果显示干预组母婴之间表现出更高的敏感性、合作性、互动适宜性和游戏适宜性，尽管贝利智力量表以及乌兹吉里斯和亨特分量表中的差异并不显著。对情感关系特征的行为相关性进行的事后检验为将母婴互动的整体评估作为当代行为微观分析研究方法的补充提供了支持。
