Crucianelli, L and Wheatley, L and Filippetti, ML and Jenkinson, P and Kirk, E and Fotopoulou, A (2019) The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: An Investigation of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Mother-Infant Touch Interactions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35. pp. 47-56. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.010
Crucianelli, L and Wheatley, L and Filippetti, ML and Jenkinson, P and Kirk, E and Fotopoulou, A (2019) The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: An Investigation of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Mother-Infant Touch Interactions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35. pp. 47-56. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.010
Crucianelli, L and Wheatley, L and Filippetti, ML and Jenkinson, P and Kirk, E and Fotopoulou, A (2019) The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: An Investigation of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Mother-Infant Touch Interactions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35. pp. 47-56. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.010
Abstract
Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants, however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are translated into tactile, affect-regulatory behaviours towards their infants. During 10 minute book-reading, mother-infant sessions when infants were 12 months old (N = 45), we investigated maternal mind-mindedness (MM), the social cognitive ability to understand an infant’s mental state, by coding the contingency of maternal verbal statements towards the infants’ needs and desires. We also rated spontaneous tactile interactions in terms of their emotional contingency. We found that frequent non-attuned mind-related comments were associated with touch behaviours that were not contingent with the infant’s emotions; ultimately discouraging affective tactile responses from the infant. However, comments that were more appropriate to infant’s mental states did not necessarily predict more emotionally-contingent tactile behaviours. These findings suggest that when parental high-order social cognitive abilities are compromised, they are also likely to translate into inappropriate, tactile attempts to regulate infant’s emotions.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mind-mindedness; mother-infant interaction; maternal touch; infant touch; contingency |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2018 16:15 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:33 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21288 |
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