title: Six-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency and 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies.
abstract: Associations of 6-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency with 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies during face-to-face play were investigated in 126 dyads. Infant and mother face, gaze, touch, and vocal quality were coded second by second from split-screen videotape. Self- and interactive contingencies were defined as auto- and lagged cross-correlation, respectively, using multilevel time-series models. Statistical significance was defined as p<.05. Regarding self-contingency, (a) more self-critical mothers showed primarily lowered self-contingency, whereas their infants showed both lowered and heightened, and (b) infants of more dependent mothers showed primarily lowered self-contingency, whereas findings were absent in mothers. Regarding interactive contingency, (a) more self-critical mothers showed lowered attention and emotion contingencies but heightened contingent touch coordination with infant touch, and (b) more dependent mothers and their infants showed heightened facial/vocal interactive contingencies. Thus, maternal self-criticism and dependency have different effects on mother-infant communication.
authors.affiliation: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. beebebe@pi.cpmc.colombia.edu
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beebe
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: Henian
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Sidney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blatt
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaminer
authors.forename: Stanley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feldstein
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Andrews
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D049590:Postpartum Period / Q000523:psychology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D014110:Touch; D014743:Videotape Recording; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014831:Voice