ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2019
The mindedness of maternal touch: An investigation of maternal mind-mindedness and mother-infant touch interactions.
Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT06158373 (The Effect of Mother's Massage and Safe Swaddling on Bonding, Self-effıcacy and Vital Signs in Infants Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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The Effect of Mother's Massage and Safe Swaddling on Bonding, Self-effıcacy and Vital Signs in Infants Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Maternal interoceptive focus is associated with greater reported engagement in mother-infant stroking and rocking.PloS one · 2024Article
- The social roots of self development: from a bodily to an intellectual interpersonal dialogue.Psychological research · 2023Review
- Therapeutic touch and therapeutic alliance in pediatric care and neonatology: An active inference framework.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Oxytocin but not naturally occurring variation in caregiver touch associates with infant social orienting.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Regulates Autonomic Markers in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Tactile Biography Questionnaire: A contribution to its validation in an Italian sample.PloS one · 2022Article
- Postpartum Maternal Emotional Disorders and the Physical Health of Mother and Child.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
- Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers' fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Mentalization and embodied selfhood in Borderline Personality Disorder.Journal of consciousness studies : controversies in science & the humanities · 2021Article
- Social touch alters newborn monkey behavior.Infant behavior & development · 2019Article
- Fathers' and Mothers' Early Mind-Mindedness Predicts Social Competence and Behavior Problems in Childhood.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Social touch: A new vista for developmental cognitive neuroscience?Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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6 authors.
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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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