Characteristics of Maternal Verbal Style: Responsiveness and Directiveness in Two Natural Contexts

Autor/inn/en	Flynn, Valerie; Masur, Elise Frank
Titel	Characteristics of Maternal Verbal Style: Responsiveness and Directiveness in Two Natural Contexts
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 34 (2007) 3, S.519-543 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500090700801X
Schlagwörter	Play; Mothers; Males; Oral Language; Speech; Attention; Parent Child Relationship; Age Differences; Responses; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Speaking; Sprechen; Aufmerksamkeit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Twenty mothers' provision of responsive, supportive behavioural directive, and intrusive behavioural and attentional directive speech was investigated during interactions with their children at ages 0 ; 10, 1 ; 1, 1 ; 5 and 1 ; 9 in two natural contexts, free play and bathtime. Issues examined included developmental change, contextual differences, consistency across contexts and stability over time. Analyses revealed increases in frequencies of maternal responsive and supportive directive utterances and decreases in maternal intrusive directives with age. Differences between contexts included more speech and supportive directiveness during play than bath. Responsiveness and intrusive attentional directiveness demonstrated considerable consistency and stability. Mothers provided greater responsiveness to girls than to boys, but more intrusive directives to boys than to girls. Mothers' production of supportive and intrusive directives was unrelated, and their rates of responsive speech were inversely associated with their rates of intrusive directive speech, highlighting the importance of distinguishing between supportive and intrusive directiveness. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10