Modalities of Infant–Mother Interaction in Japanese, Japanese American Immigrant, and European American Dyads

• Autores: Marc H. Bornstein, Linda R. Cote, O. Maurice Haynes, Joan T.D. Suwalsky, Roger Bakeman
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 83, Nº. 6, 2012, págs. 2073-2088
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cultural variation in relations and moment-to-moment contingencies of infant–mother person-oriented and object-oriented interactions were compared in 118 Japanese, Japanese American immigrant, and European American dyads with 5.5-month-olds. Infant and mother person-oriented behaviors were related in all cultural groups, but infant and mother object-oriented behaviors were related only among European Americans. Infant and mother behaviors within each modality were mutually contingent in all groups. Culture moderated lead–lag relations: Japanese infants were more likely than their mothers to respond in object-oriented interactions; European American mothers were more likely than their infants to respond in person-oriented interactions. Japanese American dyads behaved like European American dyads. Interactions, infant effects, and parent socialization findings are set in cultural and accultural models of infant–mother transactions.