Field T, Pawlby S
Child Dev. 1980 Mar;51(1):250-3.
Face-to-face interactions were compared for mother-infant dyads from working- and middle-class groups living in the United States and England. The dyads engaged in equivalent amounts of proximal interaction but varying amounts of distal interaction. Distal interaction behaviors occurred less frequently in working-class dyads. While there were no differences between the British and American dyads on total time spent in distal interaction, the British dyads engaged in more toy-related games and American dyads exhibited more socially oriented interactions and games. The findings highlight the importance of cultural context in investigating early interactions.
对生活在美国和英国的工人阶级和中产阶级母婴二元组的面对面互动进行了比较。这些二元组进行了等量的近距离互动，但远距离互动的量各不相同。远距离互动行为在工人阶级二元组中出现的频率较低。虽然英美二元组在远距离互动的总时间上没有差异，但英国二元组参与了更多与玩具相关的游戏，而美国二元组表现出更多以社交为导向的互动和游戏。这些发现凸显了文化背景在研究早期互动中的重要性。
