Relations between Automatically Extracted Motion Features and the Quality of Mother-Infant Interactions at 4 and 13 Months
Bodily movements are an essential component of social interactions. However, the role of movement in early mother-infant interaction has received little attention in the research literature. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between automatically extracted motion featu...
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Published in | Frontiers in psychology Vol. 8; p. 2178 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Frontiers Media
13.12.2017
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Summary: | Bodily movements are an essential component of social interactions. However, the role of movement in early mother-infant interaction has received little attention in the research literature. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between automatically extracted motion features and interaction quality in mother-infant interactions at 4 and 13 months. The sample consisted of 19 mother-infant dyads at 4 months and 33 mother-infant dyads at 13 months. The coding system Coding Interactive Behavior (CIB) was used for rating the quality of the interactions. Kinetic energy of upper-body, arms and head motion was calculated and used as segmentation in order to extract coarse- and fine-grained motion features. Spearman correlations were conducted between the composites derived from the CIB and the coarse- and fine-grained motion features. At both 4 and 13 months, longer durations of maternal arm motion and infant upper-body motion were associated with more aversive interactions, i.e., more parent-led interactions and more infant negativity. Further, at 4 months, the amount of motion silence was related to more adaptive interactions, i.e., more sensitive and child-led interactions. Analyses of the fine-grained motion features showed that if the mother coordinates her head movements with her infant's head movements, the interaction is rated as more adaptive in terms of less infant negativity and less dyadic negative states. We found more and stronger correlations between the motion features and the interaction qualities at 4 compared to 13 months. These results highlight that motion features are related to the quality of mother-infant interactions. Factors such as infant age and interaction set-up are likely to modify the meaning and importance of different motion features. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Anna Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” Caserta, Italy This article was submitted to Human-Media Interaction, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Reviewed by: Karmele López-de-Ipiña, Universidad del Pías Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain; Gelareh Mohammadi, Université de Genève, Switzerland; Susanna Spinsante, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy; Rytis Maskeliunas, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania; Jiri Pribil, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 1664-1078 |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02178 |