Interactions between mothers and infants showing food refusal
✍ Scribed by Lene Lindberg; Gunilla Bohlin; Berit Hagekull; Kerstin Palmérus
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 766 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
This study examined the interactional patterns of mothers and their infants who showed food refusal (N = 24) and of mothers and infants in a control group (N = 24) during feeding and play. The observations revealed significant group differences in both infant and maternal behavior. Infants in the case group rejected food more often and showed less clear communication signals than control infants, and mothers of case infants were less sensitive, less cooperative. and had more verbal teaching/control behavior than the
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