1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES OF UNDERSTANDING OTHERS' PLAY INTENTIONS AND META-COMMUNICATION IN INFANCY.
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07451038
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | FUJI WOMEN'S JUNIOR COLLEGE (FWJC) |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKANO Sigeru FWJC,CHILDHOOD EDUC., PROFESSOR, 保育科, 教授 (90183516)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | INFANT / PARENT / DEVELOPMENT / EMOTION / THE SPACE OF "WE" / INTERSUBJECTIVITY / PLAYFUL TEASING / META-COMMUNICATION |
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| Research Abstract |
This project was aimed at demonstrating developmental processes of understanding others' play intentions during infancy. Along this purpose, playful teasing interactions between an infant and his/her mother were observed longitudinally. For infants to enjyo such interactions, it was hypothesized that they have to be capable to engage such meta-communication as responding not to actions themselves but to play intentions conveyed through the actions. Before setting up the observation, however, there had been a methodological difficulty to be overcome. Playful teasing interactions are never observed under a controlled situation at an experimental laboratory and hardly in the home situation that an observer presences aside. Then I invented a new technique named "Video Diary". Fifteen mothers who participated in this project were given a camcoder and asked to record their everyday interaction with their baby from infant age of month 6 to 18, for their own memory of child rearing just like writing a diary. As a result, this methodology was very successful in collecting natural mother-infant interaction data. Then, episodes of playful teasing were extracted out of the tapes and their protocols were made. They showed following results ; a) some 6-month babies showed joyful responses to maternal playful teasing ; b) around 10 months of age, infants expressed their laughter selectively as if teaching mothers' misunderstanding of their baby's interaction preferences ; c) from around the first birthday, some infants showed playful teasing to their mother. Those results were considered as suggesting that intimate relationships like between mother-child underlay "the space of 'WE'" and intimate persons seek mutual emotion-satisfaction, in other words, the moment of intersubjectivity attainment through making-fun interactions.
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