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Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines
Dynamical systems approaches to social coordination underscore how participants' local actions give rise to and maintain global interactive patterns and how, in turn, they are also shaped by them. Developmental research can deliver important insights into both processes: (1) the stabilization o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29066985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01656 |
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author | Nomikou, Iris Leonardi, Giuseppe Radkowska, Alicja Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna Rohlfing, Katharina J. |
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description | Dynamical systems approaches to social coordination underscore how participants' local actions give rise to and maintain global interactive patterns and how, in turn, they are also shaped by them. Developmental research can deliver important insights into both processes: (1) the stabilization of ways of interacting, and (2) the gradual shaping of the agentivity of the individuals. In this article we propose that infants' agentivity develops out of participation, i.e., acting a part in an interaction system. To investigate this development this article focuses on the ways in which participation in routinized episodes may shape infant's agentivity in social events. In contrast to existing research addressing more advanced forms of participating in social routines, our goal was to assess infants' early participation as evidence of infants' agentivity. In our study, 19 Polish mother–infant dyads were filmed playing peekaboo when the infants were 4 and 6 months of age. We operationalized infants' participation in the peekaboo in terms of their use of various behaviors across modalities during specific phases of the game: We included smiles, vocalizations, and attempts to cover and uncover themselves or their mothers. We hypothesized that infants and mothers would participate actively in the routine by regulating their behavior so as to adhere to the routine format. Furthermore, we hypothesized that infants who experienced more scaffolding would be able to adopt a more active role in the routine. We operationalized scaffolding as mothers' use of specific peekaboo structures that allowed infants to anticipate when it was their turn to act. Results suggested that infants as young as 4 months of age engaged in peekaboo and took up turns in the game, and that their participation increased at 6 months of age. Crucially, our results suggest that infants' behavior was organized by the global structure of the peekaboo game, because smiles, vocalizations, and attempts to uncover occurred significantly more often during specific phases rather than being evenly distributed across the whole interaction. Furthermore, the way mothers structured the game at 4 months predicted infant participation at both 4 and 6 months of age. |
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spelling | pubmed-56413502017-10-24 Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines Nomikou, Iris Leonardi, Giuseppe Radkowska, Alicja Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna Rohlfing, Katharina J. Front Psychol Psychology Dynamical systems approaches to social coordination underscore how participants' local actions give rise to and maintain global interactive patterns and how, in turn, they are also shaped by them. Developmental research can deliver important insights into both processes: (1) the stabilization of ways of interacting, and (2) the gradual shaping of the agentivity of the individuals. In this article we propose that infants' agentivity develops out of participation, i.e., acting a part in an interaction system. To investigate this development this article focuses on the ways in which participation in routinized episodes may shape infant's agentivity in social events. In contrast to existing research addressing more advanced forms of participating in social routines, our goal was to assess infants' early participation as evidence of infants' agentivity. In our study, 19 Polish mother–infant dyads were filmed playing peekaboo when the infants were 4 and 6 months of age. We operationalized infants' participation in the peekaboo in terms of their use of various behaviors across modalities during specific phases of the game: We included smiles, vocalizations, and attempts to cover and uncover themselves or their mothers. We hypothesized that infants and mothers would participate actively in the routine by regulating their behavior so as to adhere to the routine format. Furthermore, we hypothesized that infants who experienced more scaffolding would be able to adopt a more active role in the routine. We operationalized scaffolding as mothers' use of specific peekaboo structures that allowed infants to anticipate when it was their turn to act. Results suggested that infants as young as 4 months of age engaged in peekaboo and took up turns in the game, and that their participation increased at 6 months of age. Crucially, our results suggest that infants' behavior was organized by the global structure of the peekaboo game, because smiles, vocalizations, and attempts to uncover occurred significantly more often during specific phases rather than being evenly distributed across the whole interaction. Furthermore, the way mothers structured the game at 4 months predicted infant participation at both 4 and 6 months of age. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5641350/ /pubmed/29066985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01656 Text en Copyright © 2017 Nomikou, Leonardi, Radkowska, Rączaszek-Leonardi and Rohlfing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Nomikou, Iris Leonardi, Giuseppe Radkowska, Alicja Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna Rohlfing, Katharina J. Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title | Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title_full | Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title_fullStr | Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title_full_unstemmed | Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title_short | Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines |
title_sort | taking up an active role: emerging participation in early mother–infant interaction during peekaboo routines |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29066985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01656 |
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