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KMID : 1037320140070010001
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2014 Volume.7 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.25
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Analysis of Mother-Child Interactions of Normal Children and Children with Parent-Child Relationship Problems
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Lim Woo-Kyung
Lee Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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This study examines differences between mothers of children having problems with their mothers and mothers of normal children in terms of utterance volume, interaction frequency, sub-domains of interaction, and correlations between sub-domains of interaction. Subjects are 17 pairs of young children aged four to five years who were diagnosed as having problems with mothers and their mothers and another 17 pairs of normal young children aged four to five years and their
mothers. Their mother-child interactions in the unstructured environment were analyzed. Scales included gazing from the mother-child cooperation task and the book reading interaction used by In-ah Chung(2005). Mother-child interactions videotaped were first reviewed and their verbal and non-verbal interactions were added to make the final scale to measure interaction characteristics of infants having problems with mothers and their mothers. Findings are as follows. First, a significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of utterance volume, i.e., normal children made more utterances than children having problems with mothers. Second, children of both groups showed a lower level of non-verbal interactions in the second half of their interactions while mothers of both groups generated a lower level of verbal interactions. Third, mothers of normal children generated more reinforcement, praise, and experience roaming in verbal interactions while mothers having problems with their children showed more behaviors of commanding. Normal children used the word ’mother’ more frequently and showed more behaviors of reinforcing and praising their mothers. Meanwhile, children having problems with their mothers did not respond to questions of mothers. Fourth, verbal behaviors of mothers of normal children had a positive correlation with their children’s non-verbal behaviors.
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KEYWORD
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parent-child relationship problem, mother-child interaction
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