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- Title
Play With Me at My Speed: Describing Differences in the Tempo of Parent-Infant Interactions in the Lausanne Triadic Play Paradigm in Two Cultures.
- Authors
HEDENBRO, MONICA; SHAPIRO, ALYSON F.; GOTTMAN, JOHN M.
- Abstract
The goal of the present study was to examine the tempo of triadic play in Swedish and American families through a comparison of 20 families from each culture. When infants were approximately 3 months old, families in both cultures participated in the Lausanne Triadic Play (LTP), a paradigm that facilitates the examination of the triad as a whole and an organization of its parts. All family play sessions were coded separately in Sweden and America using coding systems that had been developed in each country. Dynamics within the triadic play were compared across cultures, and also across coding systems. Results indicated that both coding systems described a distinct difference in the tempo of play between American and Swedish Families. Overall, although there were many similarities between countries, American families were found to have a faster pace in triadic play than Swedish families. This difference in tempo is explored in the data analyses and the discussion of this article.
- Subjects
TRIADIC supervision (Counseling); CONJOINT marital therapy; FAMILIES; PARADIGMS (Social sciences); PLAY assessment (Child psychology); BEHAVIORAL assessment of children
- Publication
Family Process, 2006, Vol 45, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00184.x