Culture-Specific Development of Early Mother-Infant Emotional Co-Regulation: Italian, Cameroonian, and West African Immigrant Dyads

Autor/inn/en	Lavelli, Manuela; Carra, Cecilia; Rossi, Germano; Keller, Heidi
Titel	Culture-Specific Development of Early Mother-Infant Emotional Co-Regulation: Italian, Cameroonian, and West African Immigrant Dyads
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 55 (2019) 9, S.1850-1867 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000696
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Infants; Mothers; Longitudinal Studies; Cross Cultural Studies; Middle Class; Rural Areas; Agricultural Occupations; Feedback (Response); Foreign Countries; Role; Self Control; Immigrants; Infant Behavior; Attention; Psychomotor Skills; Tactual Perception; Maintenance; Western Civilization; African Culture; Socialization; Acculturation; Child Development; Cultural Context; Italy; Cameroon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Mittelschicht; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Ausland; Rollen; Selbstbeherrschung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Aufmerksamkeit; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Akkulturation; Kindesentwicklung; Italien; Kamerun
Abstract	Studies conducted in Western countries document the special role of mother--infant face-to-face exchanges for early emotional development including social smiling. A few cross-cultural studies have shown that the Western pattern of face-to-face communication is absent in traditional rural cultures, without identifying other processes that promote emotional Co-regulation. The present study compared three different samples: Western middle-class families in Italy, rural traditional Nso farmer families in Cameroon, and West African sub-Saharan immigrant families in Italy using biweekly observations of 20 mother-infant dyads from each cultural context from age 4 to 12 weeks. Longitudinal sequential analysis of maternal and infant behaviors showed that from as early as 4 weeks, in Italian dyads maternal affectionate talking is linked with infant active attention to mother in sequences of face-to-face contact; this link fosters the subsequent emergence of infant smiling/cooing, and then sequences of positive feedback between infant and maternal emotional expressions that, by the 3rd month, dynamically stabilize. In contrast, for Cameroonian/Nso dyads over the 2nd and 3rd month, maternal motor stimulation marked by rhythmic vocalizing is linked with infant active attention to surroundings. The relatively few smiling/cooing actions of Nso babies at their mothers were answered mainly with tactile stimulation that did not foster the maintenance of face-to-face visual contact. Finally, West African immigrant dyads showed a combination of both face-to-face and sensorimotor coregulated exchanges observed in their new and native cultures. These findings suggest that emotional Co-regulation in early infancy can occur via multiple, culture-specific pathways that may be substantially different from the western pattern of face-to-face communication. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01