Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support-giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others

IF 2.8 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant and Child Development Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI:10.1002/icd.2496

Chenglong Jia, Yuan Shen, Ling Zhu, Li Sun, Kelin Du, Jinliang Qin

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Abstract

Interactions with primary caregivers shape children's expectations of interactions with others, but the mechanism is not clear yet. We included Han Chinese children aged 5–6 (N = 121, 61 boys) from a city in East China and tested their support-giving expectations of mothers, fathers and unfamiliar others after observing mother–child interactions with different levels of maternal responsiveness. Across two studies, we found that children's support-giving behaviour and willingness expectations decreased significantly in the unresponsive condition for mothers and fathers but not for unfamiliar others; while these expectations did not change significantly for all partners in the responsive condition. The results suggest that relationship type between children and interaction partners moderates the effects of maternal responsiveness on children's expectations of partners' support-giving. They shed light on how young children understand and represent interpersonal interactions.

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进入未知世界：母亲的反应能力会影响幼儿对父亲给予支持的期望，但不会影响陌生的其他人

与主要照顾者的互动会影响儿童对与他人互动的期望，但其机制尚不清楚。我们纳入了华东某市 5-6 岁的汉族儿童（121 人，61 名男孩），测试了他们在观察不同程度的母亲回应性的母子互动后，对母亲、父亲和陌生他人给予支持的期望。在两项研究中，我们发现在无反应条件下，儿童对母亲和父亲的支持给予行为和意愿期望显著下降，但对陌生他人的支持给予行为和意愿期望却没有显著下降；而在有反应条件下，儿童对所有伙伴的支持给予行为和意愿期望都没有显著变化。结果表明，儿童与互动伙伴之间的关系类型调节了母亲的反应性对儿童对伙伴给予支持的期望的影响。这些研究揭示了幼儿如何理解和表现人际互动。

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Infant and Child Development PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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2.90

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9.10%

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期刊介绍： Infant and Child Development publishes high quality empirical, theoretical and methodological papers addressing psychological development from the antenatal period through to adolescence. The journal brings together research on: - social and emotional development - perceptual and motor development - cognitive development - language development atypical development (including conduct problems, anxiety and depressive conditions, language impairments, autistic spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders)