Anne-Bebek Etkileşimi: Annenin Psikolojik İşlevselliği ve Bağlanma Örüntüleri ile Annebebek Öz-Tutarlık ve Etkileşimsel Uyum Arasındaki İlişkinin Video Mikroanaliz Yöntemiyle İncelenmesi

Abstract

The first purpose was to examine whether the modality pairings of infant-mother gaze, infant vocal affect-mother touch, infant gaze-mother touch, and infant-mother facial affect are organized by self-and interactive contingency. The second purpose was to assess the relationship between postpartum/four-month maternal psychological functioning, attachment and infant temperament, and mother-infant self-and interactive contingency in paired modalities. Sixty-six postpartum-mothers with healthy singleton infants participated at the first home assessment. Then, 57 mother-infant dyads were video-taped at the laboratory at four months. The 2.5 minutes of interaction were coded with video-microanalysis second-by-second for infant-mother gaze, infant-vocal affect, mother-touch, infant-mother facial affect. Compatible with aims, multilevel time-series analyses were run via Mplus-8.1. Findings indicated that interactions were organized by mother-infant self-and interactive contingency in different communication modality pairings. Four-month maternal depression and anxiety predicted infant gaze self-contingency, respectively decreasing and increasing. The interaction effect between postpartum maternal anxiety and anxious attachment was a predictor of mother gaze interactive contingency-coordinating with infant gaze. The interaction effect between postpartum maternal depression and anxious attachment predicted mother touch self-contingency. Maternal anxious attachment predicted increase in infant vocal affect interactive contingency-coordinating with mother touch; increase in mother touch interactive contingency-coordinating with infant gaze; decrease in infant facial affect interactive contingency-coordinating with mother facial affect. Four-month maternal depression predicted decrease in mother touch interactive contingency-coordinating with infant gaze. Significant interaction effects between postpartum/four-month maternal anxiety and anxious attachment, and between postpartum maternal anxiety and avoidant attachment were found on infant facial affect interactive contingency-coordinating with mother facial affect. Postpartum/four-month maternal self-efficacy predicted increases or decreases in self-and interactive contingency in different communication modality pairings. Infant temperament-negative emotionality predicted decrease in mother touch interactive contingency-coordinating with infant gaze. Findings and clinical implications were discussed with regard to developing internal working models of infant attachment and mother-infant video feedback interventions.