When Infants Lose Exclusive Maternal Attention: Is It Jealousy?

Autor/inn/en	Hart, Sybil L.; Carrington, Heather A.; Tronick, E. Z.; Carroll, Sebrina R.
Titel	When Infants Lose Exclusive Maternal Attention: Is It Jealousy?
Quelle	In: Infancy, 6 (2004) 1, S.57-78 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
DOI	10.1207/s15327078in0601_3
Schlagwörter	Interests; Play; Mothers; Infants; Parent Child Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Responses; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; Video Technology; Toys; Gender Differences; Fear + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsinteresse; Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten; Toy; Spielzeug; Geschlechterkonflikt; Furcht
Abstract	To characterize infant reactions to jealousy evocation, 94 6-month-olds and their mothers were videotaped in an episode where the mothers directed positive attention toward a lifelike doll, and in 2 contrasting interactions: face-to-face play and a still-face perturbation. Cross-context comparisons of affects and behaviors revealed that jealousy evocation responses were distinguished by diminished joy and heightened anger and intensity of negative emotionality, comparable to levels displayed during the still-face episode; heightened sadness, with durations exceeding those displayed during still-face exposure; and an approach response consisting of interest, looks at mother, and diminished distancing, which was more pronounced than that demonstrated during play. Infants' heightened anger and sadness during jealousy evocation correlated with heightened maternal sensitivity and dyadic vocal turn-taking, respectively, during play; and infants' diminished joy and interest during jealousy evocation were associated with heightened maternal withdrawal and intrusiveness, respectively, during play. Both fear and mother-directed gaze were greater in girls. The discussion argues for interpreting the infant's mixed and agitated reaction to jealousy evocation as evidence of jealousy. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10