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Maternal responsiveness with preterm infants and later competency

✍ Scribed by Professor Leila Beckwith; Sarale E. Cohen

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
663 KB
Volume
1989
Category
Article
ISSN
1520-3247

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✦ Synopsis

The field reflects differing conceptions of the significant dimensions of caregiver-infant interaction, the processes by which those interactions influence later development, and the contribution of the infant to those interactions.

How should the dimensions of interaction between caregivers and infants be characterized? There is no one answer. A recent review article points out that "choosing the most meaningful level of analysis" is one of the more perplexing problems in studying interaction (Maccoby and Martin, 1983, p. 4). One of the major dimensions that researchers are currently interested in is responsiveness. Responsiveness is conceptualized as prompt and appropriate behavior to infants' signals. It is often operationalized as either the proportion of the infant's bids to which the care-

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