title: Description des données d'observation continue du comportement par une technique d'analyse de textes 1. Mise enévidence de styles individuels de maternage dans une lignée consanguine de souris.
abstract: This study illustrates the use of an original technique to give a precise description of the developmental environment provided by female mice to their pups, and of his changes with the age of the pups. Successive events recorded by continous observation of maternal behaviour of C57BL/6 inbred mice were analysed by a technique devoted to textual analysis. The different mothers were easily characterised by differences in the frequencies of the behavioural items expressed on the nest. These individual differences were stable with increasing age of the pups. On the other hand, the frequencies of behavioural sequences showed differences related to the age of the pups. The psychological meaning of some behavioural items is suggested by the results. The relevance of multivariate techniques of description directly applied on initial data of continous observation is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'éthologie et de psychophysiologie, Facultédes Sciences, Tours, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Le Pape
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chevalet