Modeling Dyadic Processes Using Hidden Markov Models: A Time Series Approach to Mother-Infant Interactions During Infant Immunization

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 298-321

  Stifter, Cynthia A ^a   Rovine, Michael ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic processes; Hidden Markov modelling; Infant crying; Infant distress; Maternal soothing; Soothing; Time series; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930382066     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.1907     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Ainsworth, M., Blehar, M., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of Attachment: a psychobiological study of the strange situation Hillsdale. NJ: Erlbaum.
2. Axia, G., & Bonichini, S. (1998). Regulation of emotion after acute pain from 3 to 18months: a longitudinal study. Early Development and Parenting, 7, 203-210.
3. Barr, R., Hopkins, B., & Green, J. (2000). Crying as a sign, a symptom and a signal: evolving concepts of crying behavior. In R. Barr, B. Hopkins & J. Green (Eds.), Crying as a sign, a symptom, and a signal: clinical, emotional and developmental aspects of infant and toddler crying (pp. 1-7). London: Mac Keith Press.
4. Bartholomew, D., Knott, M., & Moustaki, I. (2011). Latent variable models and factor analysis: A unified approach. New York: Wiley.
5. Baum, L., & Petrie, T. (1966). Statistical inference for probabiliistic functions of finite state Markov chains. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 37, 1554-1563.
6. Blass, E. (1999). Savoring sucrose and suckling milk: easing pain, saving calories, and learning about mother. In M. Lewis & D. Ramsay (Eds.). Soothing and stress (pp. 79-107). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
7. Blount, R., Devine, K., Cheng, P., Simons, L., & Hayutin, L. (2008). The impact of adult behaviors and vocalizations on infant distress during immunizations. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33, 1163-1174.
8. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss. New York: Basic Books.
9. Braarud, H., & Stormark, K. (2005). Maternal soothing and infant stress responses: soothing, crying and adrenocortical activity during inoculation. Infant Behavior and Development, 29, 70-79.
10. Brazelton, T. (1973). Neonatal behavioral assessment scale. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
11. Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. (2006). The bioecological model of human development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
12. Campos, R. G. (1994). Rocking and pacifiers: two comforting interventions for heelstick pain. Research in Nursing and Health, 17, 321-331.
13. Chan, M., Hoogs, A., Schmiederer, J., & Petersen, M. (2004). Detecting rare events using semantic primitives with HMM. IPCR, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004 (pp. 150-154). DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333726
14. Coleman, P., & Karraker, K. (1997). Self-efficacy and parenting quality: findings and future applications. Developmental Review, 18, 47-85.
15. DelCarmen, R., Pedersen, F., Huffman, L., & Bryan, Y. (1993). Dyadic distress management predicts subsequent security of attachment. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 131-147.
16. Fogel, A. (1993). Developing through relationships. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
17. Frühwirth-Schnatter, S. (2006). Finite mixture and Markov switching models. New York: Springer.
18. Green, J., Gustafson, G., & McGhie, A. (1998). Changes in infants' cries as a function of time in a cry bout. Child Development, 69, 271-279.
19. Gunnar, M. (2005). Attachment and stress in early development: does attachment add to the potency of social regulators of stress? In C. Carter, L. Ahnert, K. Grossmann, S. Hrdy, M. Lamb, S. Porges & N. Sachser (Eds.), Attachment and bonding: a new synthesis. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
20. Gunnar, M., Brodersen, L., Krueger, K., & Rigatuso, J. (1996). Dampening of adrenocortical responses during infancy: normative changes and individual differences. Child Development, 67, 877-889.
21. Gustafson, G., & Harris, K. (1990). Women's responses to young infants' cries. Developmental Psychology, 26, 144-152.
22. Gustafson, G., Wood, R., & Green, J. (2000). Can we hear the causes of infants' crying? In R. Barr, B. Hopkins & J. Green (Eds.), Crying as a sign, symptom, and signal: clinical, emotional, and developmental aspects of infant and toddler crying (pp. 8-22). London: Mac Keith Press.
23. Jahromi, L. B., Stifter, C., & Putnam, S. (2004). Maternal regulation of infant reactivity from 2 to 6months. Developmental Psychology, 40(4), 477-487.
24. Kim, C. -J. (1994). Dynamic linear models with Markov-switching. Journal of Econometrics, 60, 1-22.
25. Lewis, M., & Ramsay, D. (1995). Developmental change in infants' responses to stress. Child Development, 66, 657-670.
26. Lewis, M., & Ramsay, D. (1999). Effect of maternal soothing on infant stress response. Child Development, 70, 11-20.
27. McElwain, N., & Booth-LaForce, C. (2006). Maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress as predictors of infant-mother attachment security. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 247-255.
28. McEwen, B. (1998). Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators. New England Journal of Medicine, 338, 171-179.
29. Molenaar, P. (2004). A manifesto on psychology as idiographic science: bringing the person back into scientific psychology, this time forever. Measurement, 2, 201-218.
30. Nesselroade, J., & Molenaar, P. (1999). Pooling lagged covariance structure based on short, multivariate time series for dynamic factor analysis. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Statistical strategies for small sample research Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
31. Rabiner, L. (1989). A tutorial on hidden Markov Models and selected applications in speech recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE, 77, 257-286.
32. Sapolsky, R. (1994). Why zebras don't get ulcers: a guide to stress, stress-related diseases, and coping. New York: Freeman & Co.
33. Saul, L., & Rahim, M. (2000). Maximum-likelihood and minimum classification error factor analysis for automatic speech recognition. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 8(2), 115-125.
34. Shumway, R., & Stoffer, D (2011). Time series analysis and its applications (3rd edition). New York: Springer.
35. Soltis, J. (2004). The signal functions of early infant crying. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 443-490.
36. Stifter, C. A., & Bono, M. (1998). The effect of infant colic on maternal self-perceptions and mother-infant attachment. Child: Care, Health and Development, 24, 339-351.
37. Sweet, S. D., McGrath, P. J., & Symons, D. (1999). The roles of child reactivity and parenting context in infant pain response. Pain, 80, 655-661.
38. Teti, D., & Gelfand, D. (1991). Behavioral competence among mothers of infants in the first year: the mediational role of maternal self-efficacy. Child Development, 62, 918-929.
39. Tronick, E. (2006). The inherent stress of normal daily life and social interaction leads to the development of coping and resilience, and variation in resilience in infants and young children. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1094, 83-104.
40. Visser, I., Raijmakers, M., & Molenaar, P. (2002). Fitting hidden Markov models to psychological data. Scientific Programming, 10, 185-199.
41. Visser, I., Raijmakers, M., & Molenaar, P. (2007). Characterizing sequence knowledge using online measure and hidden Markov models. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1502-1517.
42. Visser, I., & Speekenbrink, M. (2010). "depmixS4: An R Package for hidden Markov models". Journal of Statistical Software, 36(7), 1-21. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i07/
43. Wickens, T. (1989). Multiway contingency tables for the social sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.