Masataka N
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama.
Shinrigaku Kenkyu. 1996 Oct;67(4):285-91. doi: 10.4992/jjpsy.67.285.
Placing the infant in a device which restrained his/her movement was a traditional custom of infant caretaking in a number of parts of the world, and is still observed in some of them. An example of such practices, swaddling, was investigated with Native Americans, the Aymara, in Bolivia, and caretaking behaviors in 24 swaddling and 18 non-swaddling families were compared. Results did not support the notion that swaddling was a form of infant neglect on the part of caretakers. Swaddling caretakers actually exhibited as strong interest in the infant as non-swaddling caretakers, and spent more money on his/her clothes. The mother spent less time for infant care in the swaddling family. However, other members of the family took more time to take care of the infant than those in the non-swaddling family. It is argued that swaddling effectively encourages non-mother family members to participate in infant caretaking, in addition to serving a potentially beneficial function to protect infants from unsafe and unsanitary home environments.
将婴儿放置在限制其活动的器具中是世界上许多地方传统的婴儿照料习俗，并且在其中一些地方仍然存在。玻利维亚的艾马拉印第安人对襁褓这种此类做法的一个例子进行了研究，并比较了24个采用襁褓法和18个不采用襁褓法家庭的照料行为。结果并不支持襁褓是照料者忽视婴儿的一种形式这一观点。采用襁褓法的照料者实际上对婴儿表现出与不采用襁褓法的照料者同样强烈的兴趣，并且在婴儿衣物上花费更多。在采用襁褓法的家庭中，母亲用于照料婴儿的时间较少。然而，家庭中的其他成员比不采用襁褓法家庭的成员花更多时间照顾婴儿。有人认为，襁褓法除了可能具有保护婴儿免受不安全和不卫生家庭环境影响的有益功能外，还能有效鼓励非母亲家庭成员参与婴儿照料。
