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The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions.
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2019 02; 35:47-56.DC

Abstract

Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants, however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are translated into tactile, affect-regulatory behaviours towards their infants. During 10 min book-reading, mother-infant sessions when infants were 12 months old (N = 45), we investigated maternal mind-mindedness (MM), the social cognitive ability to understand an infant's mental state, by coding the contingency of maternal verbal statements towards the infants' needs and desires. We also rated spontaneous tactile interactions in terms of their emotional contingency. We found that frequent non-attuned mind-related comments were associated with touch behaviours that were not contingent with the infant's emotions; ultimately discouraging affective tactile responses from the infant. However, comments that were more appropriate to infant's mental states did not necessarily predict more emotionally-contingent tactile behaviours. These findings suggest that when parental high-order social cognitive abilities are compromised, they are also likely to translate into inappropriate, tactile attempts to regulate infant's emotions.

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Crucianelli L
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: l.crucianelli@ucl.ac.uk.
Wheatley L
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Filippetti ML
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
Jenkinson PM
School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
Kirk E
Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.
Fotopoulou AK
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK.

MeSH

AdultFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMaternal BehaviorMother-Child RelationsMothersTouch

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

29402735

Citation

Crucianelli, Laura, et al. "The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: an Investigation of Maternal Mind-mindedness and Mother-infant Touch Interactions." Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 35, 2019, pp. 47-56.
Crucianelli L, Wheatley L, Filippetti ML, et al. The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2019;35:47-56.
Crucianelli, L., Wheatley, L., Filippetti, M. L., Jenkinson, P. M., Kirk, E., & Fotopoulou, A. K. (2019). The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.01.010
Crucianelli L, et al. The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: an Investigation of Maternal Mind-mindedness and Mother-infant Touch Interactions. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2019;35:47-56. PubMed PMID: 29402735.
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TY - JOUR T1 - The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions. AU - Crucianelli,Laura, AU - Wheatley,Lisa, AU - Filippetti,Maria Laura, AU - Jenkinson,Paul M, AU - Kirk,Elizabeth, AU - Fotopoulou,Aikaterini Katerina, Y1 - 2018/01/31/ PY - 2017/03/31/received PY - 2018/01/18/revised PY - 2018/01/28/accepted PY - 2018/2/7/pubmed PY - 2019/4/27/medline PY - 2018/2/7/entrez KW - Contingency KW - Infant touch KW - Maternal touch KW - Mind-mindedness KW - Mother-infant interaction SP - 47 EP - 56 JF - Developmental cognitive neuroscience JO - Dev Cogn Neurosci VL - 35 N2 - Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants, however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are translated into tactile, affect-regulatory behaviours towards their infants. During 10 min book-reading, mother-infant sessions when infants were 12 months old (N = 45), we investigated maternal mind-mindedness (MM), the social cognitive ability to understand an infant's mental state, by coding the contingency of maternal verbal statements towards the infants' needs and desires. We also rated spontaneous tactile interactions in terms of their emotional contingency. We found that frequent non-attuned mind-related comments were associated with touch behaviours that were not contingent with the infant's emotions; ultimately discouraging affective tactile responses from the infant. However, comments that were more appropriate to infant's mental states did not necessarily predict more emotionally-contingent tactile behaviours. These findings suggest that when parental high-order social cognitive abilities are compromised, they are also likely to translate into inappropriate, tactile attempts to regulate infant's emotions. SN - 1878-9307 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/29402735/The_mindedness_of_maternal_touch:_An_investigation_of_maternal_mind_mindedness_and_mother_infant_touch_interactions_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -