Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue Overview of the research problem and summary of findings
- 1 Relationships as developing systems: theoretical foundations
- 2 Mother-infant relationship development in the first six months: from face-to-face play to object play
- 3 Relational-historical research on developmental change
- 4 Relational-historical research: the multiple case study approach, frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis
- 5 Research propositions about relationship change processes
- 6 Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
- 7 Results of the current investigation: quantitative analysis of developmental changes in relationship frames and in infant actions
- 8 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
- 9 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Betsy and her mother
- 10 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Lewis and his mother
- 11 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Susan and her mother
- 12 Summary of findings on relational-historical change
- Epilogue Laws of change: implications for theory and practice
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
6 - Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue Overview of the research problem and summary of findings
- 1 Relationships as developing systems: theoretical foundations
- 2 Mother-infant relationship development in the first six months: from face-to-face play to object play
- 3 Relational-historical research on developmental change
- 4 Relational-historical research: the multiple case study approach, frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis
- 5 Research propositions about relationship change processes
- 6 Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
- 7 Results of the current investigation: quantitative analysis of developmental changes in relationship frames and in infant actions
- 8 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
- 9 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Betsy and her mother
- 10 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Lewis and his mother
- 11 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Susan and her mother
- 12 Summary of findings on relational-historical change
- Epilogue Laws of change: implications for theory and practice
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Subjects
Thirteen mother-infant pairs volunteered to participate in a longitudinal investigation on the development of infant communication. They were contacted by letter from birth announcements in the local newspaper. All had full-term births with no complications and all passed a six-month hearing test. Only middle-income mothers older than 21 years were included in the sample. Seven infants were male and six were female. Twelve of the dyads were Caucasian and one was African-American.
Procedure
Infants and mothers were videotaped weekly from age 4 to 52 weeks and then bi-weekly from 53 to 104 weeks. Here we report the findings from twelve observation sessions on each infant, six sessions prior to and six sessions following the acquisition of visually guided reaching (see below for definition and coding) for a total of 156 observation sessions. By design, the observed first instance of successful visually guided reach was designated as observation session number seven, and coding was done for six sessions prior and six following and including the session containing the first observed reach. The age range for the first observation session was 5–16 weeks, for the last session the range was 18–30 weeks. The age range for the onset of the first observed instance of successful reaching was 12–22 weeks (Mean = 16.3 weeks). [This mean age of onset of 4 months was earlier than the Bayley norm for reaching onset of 4.8 months, which we attribute to the facilitative effect of the social context].
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- Change Processes in RelationshipsA Relational-Historical Research Approach, pp. 95 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006