Distressed Mothers and Their Infants Use a Less Efficient Timing Mechanism in Creating Expectancies of Each Other's Looking Patterns

Autor/inn/en	Beebe, Beatrice; Badalamenti, Anthony; Jaffe, Joseph; Feldstein, Stanley; Marquette, Lisa; Helbraun, Elizabeth; Demetri-Friedman, Donna; Flaster, Caroline; Goodman, Patricia; Kaminer, Tammy; Kaufman-Balamuth, Limor; Putterman, Jill; Stepakoff, Shanee; Ellman, Lauren
Titel	Distressed Mothers and Their Infants Use a Less Efficient Timing Mechanism in Creating Expectancies of Each Other's Looking Patterns
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37 (2008) 5, S.293-307 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-008-9078-y
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Infants; Depression (Psychology); Time Factors (Learning); Parent Child Relationship; Eye Movements; Anxiety; Evaluation Methods; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Augenbewegung; Angst; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	The prediction of events and the creation of expectancies about their time course is a crucial aspect of an infant's mental life, but temporal mechanisms underlying these predictions are obscure. Scalar timing, in which the ratio of mean durations to their standard deviations is held constant, enables a person to use an estimate of the mean for its standard deviation. It is one efficient mechanism that may facilitate predictability and the creation of expectancies in mother-infant interaction. We illustrate this mechanism with the dyadic gaze rhythm of mother and infant looking at and looking away from each other's faces. Two groups of Hi- and Lo-Distress mothers were created using self-reported depression, anxiety, self-criticism and childhood experiences. Lo-Distress infants (controls) used scalar timing 100% of the time, about double that of Hi-Distress infants. Lo-Distress mothers used scalar timing about nine times as much as Hi-Distress mothers. The diminished use of scalar timing patterns in Hi-Distress mothers and infants may make the anticipation of each other's gaze patterns more difficult for both partners. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10