The relationship between parental physical synchrony and attuned responsiveness to their children

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K14397
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 10020:Educational psychology-related
• Research Institution: Aichi Shukutoku University
• Principal Investigator: Kabaya Shinsuke 愛知淑徳大学, 心理学部, 准教授 (20758049)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 調律的応答 / 身体的同調性 / アタッチメント / VR

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With the aim of more comprehensively examining the developmental significance of attunement, a novel system was constructed that integrates Virtual Reality (VR) technology with body motion measurement devices to digitize parental body movements towards infants. This original body motion measurement system was applied to both caregivers currently raising infants and university students who are non-caregivers, in order to compare the characteristics of their body movements and highlight the unique features of parental body movements. Furthermore, the conceptual positioning of attunement was organized, and the issues that require empirical examination in the future were clarified.

Free Research Field

乳幼児発達心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

異なる発達的段階にある非養育者（大学生）と乳児を子育て中の養育者に対して等しく適用可能な身体動作計測システムを構築したことは，乳児に対する身体動作の微視的な個人差のデータ化とその発達過程の検証を可能とし，親による調律的応答を支える要因のさらなる解明につながるものである。またその知見は，音楽療法を始めとする多種多様な分野への波及効果が期待される。