of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy EFFECT OF BUG-IN-THE-EAR-FEEDBACK AS AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE ATTACHMENT BEHAVIORS IN THE ADOLESCENT MOTHER/INFANT DYAD By Afua Ottie Arhin December 2005 Chair: Jennifer Elder Major Department: Nursing Background: Previous studies have...

Cohn and Tronick (1988) found that the onset times of behavioral change in mother-infant face-toface interaction are stochastic rather than periodic. This comment offers an explanation of why thenresult replicates that of Kaye and Fogel (1980), in spite of important differences in how interactive behavior is conceptualized, coded, and treated statistically. Furthermore, it is suggested that sto...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of the Kangaroo Position duration in the initial interactions between mothers and preterm infants. METHODS This is an exploratory prospective observational study that analyzed the mother-infant interaction during breastfeeding, before hospital discharge. All eligible newborns, with a gestational age of 28-32 weeks and a birth weight of 1,000-1,800 g from Jun...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that psychopathology in mothers may be associated with dysfunctional mother-infant interactions. AIMS To investigate mother-infant relations when mothers have borderline personality disorder. METHOD Eight mothers with borderline personality disorder and twelve mothers without psychiatric disorder were videotaped interacting with their 2-month-old infants in thre...

Postpartum depression is a highly prevalent disorder that can interfere in the mother-infant relationship. This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of postpartum depression in our sample to compare mother-infant interaction in depressed and non-depressed mothers and to assess the relationship between maternal depression, social support, attachment style, and emotional availability. Participan...

At 24-months of age, toddlers (N=62) and their mothers were observed in a free-play session to determine the contribution of (a) maternal sensory sensitivity to positive and negative infant facial expressions as measured in a signal detection task at 6 months, (b) maternal behavior and affect, infant behavior and affect, and dyadic interaction at 9 months, and (c) infant attachment status at 12...

background & aim: aggression is a phenomenon that causes irreversible damage to a community. psychodynamic theory suggests that aggression is rooted in early relationships with family members, especially mother. according to this theory, infant-mother relationship is a major predictor of an individual’s behavior from childhood to adulthood. this study aimed to investigate the correlation betwee...

The aim of this study was to investigate the coupling of the biological system of infant sleep and the social system of mother-infant synchrony. Before birth and shortly after birth the systems appear to be connected, but it is unclear whether this remains the case over time. This study therefore examined whether infant sleep measured at 6 weeks and 5 months could predict mother-infant gaze syn...

The authors illustrate how their work on mother-infant "relational psychophysiology" might inform psychotherapy research. They examined psychophysiology in 18 mother-infant dyads (infants' age: 5 months) during normal interaction and a still-face perturbation. They measured respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as an index of emotion regulation and explored whether skin conductance (SC) concordanc...

INTRODUCTION The preterm infants' developmental outcomes depend on biological and environmental risk factors. The environmental factors include prolonged parental separation, less exposure to early mother/father-infant interactions and the parents' ability to respond to the trauma of premature birth. In the case of premature birth, the father's ability to take an active part in the care of the ...