Quality of Mother-Infant Interactions in Maternal Emotional Disturbance: A Pilot Study

Autor/inn/en	Singhal, Meghna; Sinha, U. K.
Titel	Quality of Mother-Infant Interactions in Maternal Emotional Disturbance: A Pilot Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 8 (2012) 4, S.78-104 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0973-1342
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Emotional Disturbances; Video Technology; Mothers; Comparative Analysis; Infants; Toddlers; Interaction; Affective Behavior; Play; Psychopathology; Foreign Countries; Individual Characteristics; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Gefühlsstörung; Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Interaktion; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Spiel; Psychopathologie; Ausland; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Indien
Abstract	Aim: The present study aimed to examine the quality of mother-infant interactions in emotionally disturbed (ED) mothers. Method: 20 mothers with or without ED and their infants (12-24 months) participated in the study, which involved the mothers interacting with their infants with a toy in a structured play situation. These interactions were video-recorded behaviours. Results: Significant differences were obtained on all the behaviour scales between both the groups. Mothers with ED and their infants displayed more negative or neutral interaction as compared to control mothers and their infants. The interactions of the mother-infant dyads were also less positive in mothers with ED than in control mothers. Conclusions: The study suggests that the presence of ED in mothers is associated with overall less optimal mother-infant interactions than is evident in demographically similar mothers without ED. This study helped confirm previous findings but also demonstrated impact of maternal emotional disturbance on mother-infant interactions not detailed in literature. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. e-mail: jiacam@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jiacam.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10