Dynamic Infant-parent Affect Coupling During the Face-to-face/still-face

Overview

Journal Emotion

Publisher American Psychological Association

Specialty Psychology

Date 2010 Feb 10

PMID 20141307

Citations 34

Authors

Sy-Miin Chow

John D Haltigan

Daniel S Messinger

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Abstract

We examined dynamic infant-parent affect coupling using the Face-to-Face/Still-Face (FFSF). The sample included 20 infants whose older siblings had been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD-sibs) and 18 infants with comparison siblings (COMP-sibs). A series of mixed effects bivariate autoregressive models was used to represent the self-regulation and interactive dynamics of infants and parents during the FFSF. Significant bidirectional affective coupling was found between infants and parents, with infant-to-parent coupling being more prominent than parent-to-infant coupling. Further analysis of within-dyad dynamics revealed ongoing changes in concurrent infant-parent linkages both within and between different FFSF episodes. The importance of considering both inter- and intradyad differences is discussed.

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