期刊
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
卷 35, 期 3, 页码 561-569出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.05.007
关键词
Empathy; Infancy; Social interaction; Language development; Social development
资金
- NICHD NIH HHS [P50 HD055784] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [U54 MH068172] Funding Source: Medline
Infants' responses to other people's distress reflect efforts to make sense of affective information about another person and apply it to oneself. This study sought to determine whether 12-month olds' responses to another person's display of negative affect reflect characteristics that support social learning and predict social functioning and language skills at 36 months. Measures of infants' responsiveness include congruent changes in affect and looking time to the person in distress. Attention to the examiner displaying positive affect, analyzed as a control condition, was not related to social functioning or language skills at 36 months. Neither attention nor affective response to the examiner's distress at 12 months was related to social functioning at 36 months. However, longer time spent looking at the examiner feigning distress predicted higher language scores. Moreover, infants who demonstrated a congruent affective response to distress had higher receptive language scores at 36 months than children who did not respond affectively. Importantly, these relations were not mediated by maternal education, household income, or 12-month verbal skills. These findings are consistent with the notion that adaptation to changes in a social partner's affective state supports an infants' ability to glean useful information from interactions with more experienced social partners. Infants sensitivity to affective signals may thus be related to the ability to interpret other people's behavior and to achieve interpersonal understanding through language. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据