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INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 426-430Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.03.003
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behavior; infants; depressed mothers
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Infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers were videotaped interacting with their mothers in the [Nadel, J., Carchon, I., Kervella, C., Marcelli, D., & Reserbat-Plantey, D. (1999). Report: Expectancies for social contingency in 2-month-olds. Developmental Science, 2, 164-173] paradigm which consists of three segments including: ( I) a free play, contingent interaction, (2) a non-contingent replay of the mothers' behavior that had been videotaped during the first segment, and (3) a return to a free play, contingent interaction. As compared to infants of non-depressed mothers, infants of depressed mothers showed less negative change (less increase in frowning) in their behavior during the non-contingent replay segment, This finding was, interpreted as the infants of depressed mothers being more accustomed to non-contingent behavior in their mothers. thus experiencing less violation of expectancy in this situation. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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