Abusing, Neglecting, Problematic, and Adequate Dyads: Differentiating by Patterns of Interaction.

Abstract

Qualitative differences in videotaped mother-infant interactions were found to differentiate four groups of mothers: abusing, neglecting, problematic, and ad equate — based on the mothers' welfare service status. The infants were found to display three patterns of interaction: passive, cooperative, and difficult. Two coding devices (one for maternal behavior and one for infant behavior) were used to categorize the interactions. Two studies are reported: the original in vestigation and a replication. The interaction categorizations identified by the maternal coding device agreed with the mothers' actual welfare service status in 71% of the cases. The infant patterns of interaction showed a clear relation ship between maternal abusiveness and infant difficultness and between mater nal neglect and infant passiveness. Less distorted maternal patterns of interac tions were typically associated with infant co-operativeness. study brought together ideas from two fields of investiga tion. The first was the analysis of mother-infant interaction, and the second was the identification of abusing and neglecting parents. The goal of this study was to identify maternal and infant patterns of in teraction which would differentiate maltreating parents from more adequate parents. The micro-analytic studies of mother-infant interaction typically have been limited to a very intensive analysis of relatively few dyads. The emphasis has been on discovering how normal interactions are This paper is based on a master's thesis by the author and was presented, in part,

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