The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility
Exploration has been studied to impact infants’ cognitive development, tuned by various factors including socialisation. As socialisation serves multiple functions to motivate infant’s exploratory behaviours in early life, this paper streamlines the provider of socialisation to examine the effects...
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| author | Phan, Valerie Yong Chee |
| author2 | Victoria Leong |
| author_facet | Victoria Leong Phan, Valerie Yong Chee |
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| description | Exploration has been studied to impact infants’ cognitive development, tuned by
various factors including socialisation. As socialisation serves multiple functions to motivate infant’s exploratory behaviours in early life, this paper streamlines the provider of socialisation to examine the effects of maternal touches. Previous research had analysed the benefits of maternal affective touch to regulate infant’s affective states, reduce stress and provide a safe base for infants to explore from. In contrast, this study aims to study the effects of maternal affectionate touch, a broader form of touch that encompasses affective touches, on infants’ exploratory behaviours through a 10-min free play task, observing naturalistic interactions between mother and child.
Secondly, it is predicted that maternal affectionate touch would be positively
correlated with cognitive performance. Here, cognitive performance examines cognitive flexibility during an attention set shifting task. Together, the findings seemed to suggest a lack of significant relationship between exploration and affectionate touches as well as between maternal affectionate touches and infants’ cognitive development in a multiple comparison correlation analysis. Implications and further interpretations were discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1685202023-06-18T15:31:56Z The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility Phan, Valerie Yong Chee Victoria Leong School of Social Sciences VictoriaLeong@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion Exploration has been studied to impact infants’ cognitive development, tuned by various factors including socialisation. As socialisation serves multiple functions to motivate infant’s exploratory behaviours in early life, this paper streamlines the provider of socialisation to examine the effects of maternal touches. Previous research had analysed the benefits of maternal affective touch to regulate infant’s affective states, reduce stress and provide a safe base for infants to explore from. In contrast, this study aims to study the effects of maternal affectionate touch, a broader form of touch that encompasses affective touches, on infants’ exploratory behaviours through a 10-min free play task, observing naturalistic interactions between mother and child. Secondly, it is predicted that maternal affectionate touch would be positively correlated with cognitive performance. Here, cognitive performance examines cognitive flexibility during an attention set shifting task. Together, the findings seemed to suggest a lack of significant relationship between exploration and affectionate touches as well as between maternal affectionate touches and infants’ cognitive development in a multiple comparison correlation analysis. Implications and further interpretations were discussed. Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology 2023-06-14T02:17:34Z 2023-06-14T02:17:34Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Phan, V. Y. C. (2023). The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168520 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168520 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion Phan, Valerie Yong Chee The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title | The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title_full | The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title_fullStr | The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title_short | The effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| title_sort | effects of maternal affectionate touch on infant exploratory behaviours and cognitive flexibility |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168520 |
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