Landry S H, Smith K E, Miller-Loncar C L, Swank P R
University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Pediatrics 77225, USA.
Child Dev. 1998 Feb;69(1):105-23.
This study evaluated the changing nature of mothers' interactive behaviors to understand alterations in children's social development across 6, 12, 24, and 40 months of age. Social skills were observed during daily activities and toy play in the home for medically high risk (HR; n = 73) and low risk (LR; n = 114) very low birthweight (VLBW) preterm and full-term (FT; n = 112) children. Variations in mothers' responses to children's changing capabilities predicted rates of change in children's social skills. For example, mothers who showed higher levels of maintaining measured across 6 to 40 months had children who displayed greater increases in initiating, but this was more apparent in daily activities than toy play and for the VLBW children compared to the FT children. Those VLBW children at the highest degrees of biological risk displayed faster gains in initiating than the other groups when their mothers provided even greater levels of support. Results demonstrate the importance of using methodologies that test more complex models of growth when evaluating parent-child relations.
本研究评估了母亲互动行为的变化性质，以了解6个月、12个月、24个月和40个月大儿童社会发展的变化。在家庭日常活动和玩玩具过程中，观察了患有高医疗风险（HR；n = 73）和低医疗风险（LR；n = 114）的极低出生体重（VLBW）早产儿以及足月儿（FT；n = 112）儿童的社交技能。母亲对儿童能力变化的反应差异预示着儿童社交技能的变化速度。例如，在6至40个月期间表现出更高水平维持能力的母亲，其孩子在发起互动方面的增长更大，但这在日常活动中比在玩玩具时更明显，并且与足月儿相比，极低出生体重儿更为显著。当母亲提供更高水平的支持时，那些处于最高生物风险程度的极低出生体重儿在发起互动方面的进步比其他组更快。结果表明，在评估亲子关系时，使用能够测试更复杂成长模型的方法非常重要。
