Profiles of Infant Communicative Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Margolis, Amy E.; Lee, Sang Han; Peterson, Bradley S.; Beebe, Beatrice
Titel	Profiles of Infant Communicative Behavior
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 8, S.1594-1604 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Margolis, Amy E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000745
Schlagwörter	Infant Behavior; Child Language; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Interpersonal Communication; Nonverbal Communication; Attachment Behavior; Personality; Individual Differences; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Personalität; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	Prior studies of mother-infant interaction have generally used a variable-centered approach to associate face-to-face communication with psychosocial outcomes. Herein, we use a person-centered approach to identify clusters of infants who exhibit similar behavioral profiles during face-to-face communication with their mothers. Four infant communication channels were examined--gaze, facial affect, vocal affect, and head orientation--coded from videotape at a 1-s temporal resolution. We used k-means clustering to classify community infants (N = 132) into 10 groups, based on variation in the intercept and the autocorrelation function at the first time lag, representing respectively the overall level of behavior and the predictability of the infant's moment-by-moment behavioral stream, in each of the 4 communication channels. In this exploratory study, 10 clusters were identified, some with unusual levels or predictability of behavior in varying channels, and clusters associated differentially with risk outcomes (infant 4-month temperament and 12-month attachment). Distinct forms of affective dysregulation were identified: sustained negative vocal affect associated with degree of disorganization; random vocal affect associated with attachment resistance; random facial affect and vocal affect, irrespective of positive/negative valence, associated with infant difficult temperament. Clustering multiple channels of infant communication generated unique behavioral profiles and predicted 4- and 12-month outcomes, suggesting that these clusters may indeed represent natural types of infant communicative behavior, not easily observed with the naked eye, that may be useful behavioral markers of clinical risk. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01