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1989 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

On Relation between Infant's Temperament, Mother-Infant Interaction and Formation of Self-Recognition

Research Project

Project/Area Number 63450015
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Psychology
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Foreign Studies

Principal Investigator

TAJIMA Nobumoto  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (90002295)

Project Period (FY) 1988 – 1989
KeywordsTemperamental features / Self-recognition ability / Attitude and behavior of nursing / Transaction / Relativity of development / Domain-specific development
Research Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine how temperamental features,known as innate character of infants, and features of mother's attitude and behavior toward nursing effect on infant's cognitive and socio-emotional development, especially on individual differences of selfrecognitive and linguistic abilities that appear in the second year.
This last academic year of project, two investigations were made when the infants were 18 and 24 months of age, and the results of investigations at the period of pregnancy, from which this research had been started, and investigations at the first year(period of confinement, 1, 3, 8, 12 months after birth) was wholly analyzed. As total number of variables sums to over 2000(including variables taken repeatedly), correlations among them was primarily examined in order to reduce variables and to see the results briefly.
From the examination of correlations, two brief results below was found, and also some results that had not been hypothesized were found in the detail. These results suggest that new hypotheses should be created. Final report is to be published after those results are examined.
Moreover, it is strongly needed to make a research plan as a next step.
Brief Results
(1) Temperamental features of infant rated by his/her mother effect on her nursing behavior and at the same time, in return, latter changes many aspects of former.
(2) Specific attitude and behavior of mother effect on specific domains of development of infant.
These results suggest that the course of development is not determined by infant's temperament or mother's nursing behavior only, but, rather is, at least, a product of transaction of both of these factors. The results that mother's various nursing styles develop various domains of infant's abilities show "domain-specific development". These individual differences of development suggest "Developmental Relativism", supposing various courses of development depending on various environments.

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 小田倉泉,田島信元: "母親の母性行動と精神状態の関係について" 家庭教育研究所紀要. 10. 50-60 (1988)

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  • [Publications] 田島信元: "乳幼児の自己意識の広がり" 小児看護. 12. 434-438 (1989)

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  • [Publications] 上村佳世子: "子どもの気質と母子関係" 小児看護. 12. 465-469 (1989)

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  • [Publications] 田島信元,上村佳世子,西澤弘行,山崎浩一,大場説子: "展望:親子関係と子どもの発達" 10. 1-30 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Odakura, I. & Tajima, N.: "On the relationship between motherhood behavior and her psychiatric state.(in Japanese)" The Journal of Family Education Research Center, 10, 50-60(1988).

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  • [Publications] Tajima, N.: "The development of child's self-recognition.(in Japanese)" The Japanese Journal of Child Nursing, 12, 434-438(1989).

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  • [Publications] Uemura, K.: "The effect of child temperament on mother-child relationship.(in Japanese)" The Japanese Journal of Child Nursing, 12, 465-469(1989).

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  • [Publications] Tajima, N., Uemura, K., Nishizawa, H., Yamazaki, K. & Oba, Y.: "The effect of parent-child relationship on child development.(in Japanese)" The Journal of Mother-Child Relationship, 10, 1-30(1990).

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Published: 1993-03-26  

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