Functions of maternal touch and infants' affect during face-to-face interactions: New directions for the still-face

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Jean, Amélie D L ^a   Stack, Dale M ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infant affect; Maternal touch; Mother infant interactions; Still face procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; TOUCH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149476189     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Adamson L.B., and Frick J.E. The still face: A history of a shared experimental paradigm. Infancy 4 (2003) 451-473
2. Arnold, S.L. (2002). Maternal tactile-gestural stimulation and infant's nonverbal behaviors during early mother-infant face-to-face interactions: Contextual, age, and birth status effects. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Concordia University.
3. Bertin E., and Striano T. The still-face response in newborns, 1.5-, and 3-month-old infants. Infant Behavior & Development 29 (2006) 294-297
4. Calkins S.D., Hungerford A., and Dedmon S.E. Mothers' interactions with temperamentally frustrated infants. Infant Mental Health Journal 25 (2004) 219-239
5. Cohen J. Weighted kappa: Nominal scale agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit. Psychological Bulletin 70 (1968) 213-220
6. Cohn J.F. Additional components of the still-face effect: Commentary on Adamson and Frick. Infancy 4 (2003) 493-497
7. Cohn J.F., and Tronick E.Z. Three-month-old infants' reaction to stimulation maternal depression. Child Development 54 (1983) 185-193
8. de Chateau P. The influence of early contact on maternal and infant behavior in primiparae. Birth and the Family Journal 3 (1976) 149-155
9. Field T. Effects of early separation, interactive deficits, and experimental manipulations on infant-mother face-to-face interaction. Child Development 48 (1977) 763-771
10. Gusella J.L., Muir D.W., and Tronick E.Z. The effect of manipulating maternal behavior during an interaction on 3- and 6-month olds' affect and attention. Child Development 59 (1988) 1111-1124
11. Hertenstein M.J. Touch: Its communicative functions in infancy. Human Development 45 (2002) 70-94
12. Jean, A. Girouard, N., & Stack, D.M. (2007, March). The qualitative properties of maternal touch and their relationship to infant distress during a still-face procedure. In Proceedings of the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
13. Jean, A., Stack, D.M., Girouard, N., & Fogel, A. (2004, May). Maternal touching during interactions: The influence of infant age and social context. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Infant Studies. Chicago, IL.
14. Jones S.E., and LeBaron C.D. Research on the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication: Emerging Integrations. Journal of Communication 52 (2002) 499-521
15. Jones S.E., and Yarbrough E. A naturalistic study of the meanings of touch. Communication Monograph 52 (1985) 19-56
16. Kaye K., and Fogel A. The temporal structure of face-to-face communication between mothers and infants. Developmental Psychology 16 (1980) 454-464
17. Kisilevsky B.S., Stack D.M., and Muir D.W. Fetal and infant responses to tactile stimulation. In: Weiss M.J., and Zelazo P.R. (Eds). Newborn attention: Biological constraints and influence of experience (1991), Ablex, New Jersey 63-98
18. Mayes L.C., and Carter A.S. Emerging social regulatory capacities as seen in the still-face situation. Child Development 61 (1990) 754-763
19. Mayes L.C., Carter A.S., Egger H.L., and Pajer K.A. Reflections on stillness: mothers' reactions to the still-face situation. Journal of the American Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 30 (1991) 22-28
20. Moreno A.J., Posada G.E., and Goldyn D.T. Presence and quality of touch influence coregulation in mother-infant dyads. Infancy 9 (2006) 1-20
21. Moszkowski R.J., and Stack D.M. Infant touching behavior during mother-infant face-to-face interactions. Infant and Child Development 16 (2007) 307-319
22. Olejnik S., and Algina J. Generalized eta and omega squared statistics: Measures of effect size for some common research designs. Psychological Methods 8 (2003) 434-447
23. Šidāk Z. Rectangular confidence regions for the means of multivariate normal distribution. Journal of the American Statistical Association 62 (1967) 626-633
24. Stack D.M. The salience of touch and physical contact during infancy: Unraveling some of the mysteries of the somaesthetic sence. In: Bremner G.B., and Fogel A. (Eds). Blackwell handbook of infancy research. Social, emotional, and communicative development Vol. 2 (2001), Blackwell, Malden, MA 351-378
25. Stack D.M. Touching during mother-infant interactions. In: Field T.M., and Freedman J. (Eds). Touch and massage in early child development (2004), Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute, LLC 49-81
26. Stack D.M., LePage D.E., Hains S., and Muir D.W. Qualitative changes in maternal touch as a function of instruction condition during face-to-face social interactions. Infant Behaviour and Development 19 (1996) 761
27. Stack D.M., and Muir D.W. Tactile stimulation as a component of social interchange: New interpretations for the still-face effect. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 8 (1990) 131-145
28. Stack D.M., and Muir D.W. Adult tactile stimulation during face-to-face interactions modulates 5-months-olds' affect and attention. Child Development 63 (1992) 1509-1525
29. Symons D.K., and Moran G. The behavioral dynamics of mutual responsiveness in early face-to-face mother-infant interactions. Child Development 58 (1987) 1488-1495
30. Tronick E.Z. Emotions and emotional communication in infants. American Psychologist 44 (1989) 112-119
31. Tronick E.Z. Touch in mother-infant interactions. In: Field T.M. (Ed). Touch in early development (1995), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 53-65
32. Tronick E.Z., Als H., Adamson L., Wise S., and Brazelton T.B. The infant's response to entrapment between contradictory message in face-to-face interaction. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry 17 (1978) 1-13
33. van den Boom D.C., and Hoeksma J.B. The effect of infant irritability on mother-infant interaction: A growth-curve analysis. Developmental Psychology 30 (1994) 581-590
34. Weinberg M.K., and Tronick E.Z. Infant affective reactions to the resumption of maternal interaction after the still-face. Child Development 67 (1996) 905-914
35. Weiss S.J., Wilson P., Hertenstein M., and Campos R. The tactile context of a mother's caregiving: Implications for attachment of low birth weight infants. Infant Behavior and Development 23 (2000) 91-111
36. Weiss S.J., Wilson P., St. John Seed M., and Paul S.M. Early tactile experience of low birth weight children: Links to later mental health and social adaptation. Infant and Child Development 10 (2001) 93-115