Child Development
Volume 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2073-2088

Modalities of Infant-Mother Interaction in Japanese, Japanese American Immigrant, and European American Dyads (Article)

Bornstein M.H.* , Cote L.R. , Haynes O.M. , Suwalsky J.T.D. , Bakeman R.
  • a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States
  • b Marymount University, United States
  • c Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States
  • d Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States
  • e Georgia State University, United States

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. © 2012 The Authors. Child Development © 2012 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

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psychological aspect Caucasian human Mother-Child Relations ethnology Humans Cross-Cultural Comparison Asian Americans male Emigrants and Immigrants Acculturation Asian American Infant female cultural factor Article adult migration European Continental Ancestry Group Analysis of Variance mother child relation
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01822.x
ISSN: 00093920
Cited by: 19
Original Language: English