Effects of program for promoting social development in infancy: looking through mother-infant interaction, touch and joint attention
AUTHOR : 박성혜,곽금주,성현란,심희옥,장유경,김수정,정윤경
INFORMATION : page. 15~29 / 2005 Vol.12 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to develop the program for promoting social development and to investigate its effect on mother-infant interaction, touch and joint-attention. 120 Subjects were selected from 450 infants on the basis of their developmental score, who participated at the longitudinal study carried out from 2002 to 2004. Participants were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Infants and their mothers in experimental group were trained with our 8-session- program for 4 months with the interval of 2 weeks. To investigate the effect of the program, interactions in both groups were observed during pre-test and post-test sessions. The interactions during their free-play situation were measured on the basis of their interaction styles, touch pattern, and the amount of joint attention. The results revealed that our program influenced mother\'s verbal interaction style, the amount of positive touch type and the joint attention. These results indicate that the program facilitated infants\' social development through tapping the important aspects of interaction with their primary care-givers