Elsevier

Infant Behavior and Development

Volume 10, Issue 1, January–March 1987, Pages 111-116
Infant Behavior and Development

Brief report
Face-to-face interaction behavior across early infancy

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Abstract

Stability and change in mother-infant interaction behavior were assessed across early infancy. At 8 versus 4 months, the infants showed more smiling, vocalizing and motor-activity, and their mothers touched and moved their infants' limbs less often. Stability was noted only for infant distress-brow and mother's touching the infant. Although very few relationships were apparent between mother and infant behavior at 4 months, several maternal behaviors at 4 months were related to infant behaviors at 8 months, and several relationships were noted between maternal and infant behavior at 8 months.

Keywords

mother-infant
interaction
affetive behaviors

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This research was supported by NIMH Research Scientist Development Award #MH00331 to the first author.