The Games Infants Play: Social Games During Early Mother-Infant Interactions and Their Relationship With Oxytocin.

ABSTRACT: The present study examined early social game routines during natural face-to-face mother-infant interactions and their relationship with oxytocin. Forty-three mother-infant dyads were observed, when infants were 4 months old, during a procedure involving a baseline and a natural interaction, where mothers were instructed to interact with their infants as they would at home. During this procedure four saliva samples from mothers and infants were collected to determine levels of oxytocin at different time points. Social game routines and infant social engagement (gaze, positive, and negative affect) were coded during the natural interaction. Social games were observed in 76.7% of the mother-infant dyads, and 46 different types of games were identified. Mothers initiated games to re-engage in

SUBMITTER: Markova G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6026809 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature