title: Modalities of infant-mother interaction in Japanese, Japanese American immigrant, and European American dyads.
abstract: Cultural variation in relations and moment-to-moment contingencies of infant-mother person-oriented and object-oriented interactions were compared in 118 Japanese, Japanese American immigrant, and European American dyads with 5.5-month-olds. Infant and mother person-oriented behaviors were related in all cultural groups, but infant and mother object-oriented behaviors were related only among European Americans. Infant and mother behaviors within each modality were mutually contingent in all groups. Culture moderated lead-lag relations: Japanese infants were more likely than their mothers to respond in object-oriented interactions; European American mothers were more likely than their infants to respond in person-oriented interactions. Japanese American dyads behaved like European American dyads. Interactions, infant effects, and parent socialization findings are set in cultural and accultural models of infant-mother transactions.
authors.affiliation: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7971, USA. Marc_H_Bornstein@nih.gov
authors.forename: Marc H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.forename: Linda R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Cote
authors.forename: O Maurice
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Haynes
authors.forename: Joan T D
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Suwalsky
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bakeman
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*