This study is to find meaning of interaction between infants and mothers after examine one-year-old's motivation of interaction and mother's response in play situation. Especially, 18-month-olds require much more and start to participate interaction a...
This study is to find meaning of interaction between infants and mothers after examine one-year-old's motivation of interaction and mother's response in play situation. Especially, 18-month-olds require much more and start to participate interaction actively. Therefore, this study is to see interaction between 18-month-old and mother in two-ways.
For this study two one-year-olds and two mothers were selected as participants. The period of study is for 3 months from June 29th,2007 to September 20th,2007. Through the participating observation, I have collected qualitative data while infants grow 16-month-old to 18-month-old and analyzed it.
This study questions and results were as follow.
First of all, What is 18-month-old's motivation of interaction and mother's response in playing situation?
18-month-old's motivation of interaction was expressed in various needs. Infant's needs in playing situation were divided into Social & emotional, play participating, help demanding, curiosity satisfying, knowledge acquiring and autonomy pursuing needs.
Social & emotional needs of infants was divided again in to console, care and recognize needs. Mother instantly responded 9console needs and expressed sympathy and expressed interest verbally or non-verbally about infant's play. Mothers gave a compliment specifically about infant's accomplishment the other hand mother just gave conventional compliment.
When infants needed someone to play with, they required mother to join using various strategy. Mothers participated instantly most of play. But when infants required physical play, mother expressed passive and limited behavior.
Infants often required help in play situation because of their immature development. Mother helped and solved problems using strategy such as showing an example, explaining in words, cheering them to do themselves, creating environment and providing direct help.
Infants wanted to satisfy their curiosity about new object. Mothers limited infants strictly when they try to search something that is dangerous or dirty. Mother showed a mental conflict whether to accept or not in case of searching object that make mother troublesome.
Infants required to be helped in order to obtain many kind of knowledge. Mother tried to give knowledge as many as they can, but sometimes they were concerned about their ability.
Infants wanted to do anything themselves and pursuit autonomy. Mothers reacted negatively first about autonomy, but they started to understand it positively as a process of development. Mothers tried to respond new kind of interaction such as waiting, asking opinions and helping indirectly for positive interaction with infants.
Secondly, what is meaning of interaction between 18-month-olds and mothers in play situation?
18-month-olds expressed their needs using various signals. So mother's sensibility was needed in order to understand their signals exactly. Based on mother's sensibility, when infant's signal and mother's response agreed with, infant formed more secure attachment.
18-month-olds go through big change in developmental way. Their development of language and symbolic play were especially improved significantly. Infants tried themselves to develop and mothers supported and helped it. Accordingly, development of infant was promoted through interaction in the cooperation between infants and mothers.
Changing development of 18-month-olds showed naturally in play. Mothers responded naturally about most of infant's change. However, They responded negatively about the emotional development to pursue autonomy at first time. Mothers needed adopting process to understand it as one of the process of development. And They used new kind of interaction for positive relation.