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- Title
Brief Report: Maternal Emotional Availability and Infant Pain-related Distress.
- Authors
Din, Laila; Riddell, Rebecca Pillai; Gordner, Stuart
- Abstract
Objectives The current study investigated the relationships between maternal emotional availability and infant pain expressions. Methods A group of 73 mother-infant dyads were recruited prior to their routine immunization appointment and were subsequently filmed. Results Analyses revealed that maternal nonintrusiveness was related to lower infant pain expressions both immediately and 1 mm following needle. In addition, maternal sensitivity and overall emotional availability were related to lower infant pain expressions 1 mm after needle. Conclusions These results suggest that intrusive caregiving behaviors can increase infant pain reactivity and hinder the regulation of pain-related distress. On the other hand, sensitive and emotionally available caregiving help infants to regulate their pain-related distress. The results support that infant pain expressions are related to the quality of maternal caregiving.
- Subjects
PAIN in infants; MOTHER-infant relationship; DISTRESS in infants; IMMUNIZATION of infants; DYADS; INFANT care; SELF-expression; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 7, p722
- ISSN
0146-8693
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jpepsy/jsn110