Title
Maternal sensitivity in rural Andean and Amazonian Peru
Date Issued
25 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fourment K.
Conde G.
del Prado J.
Mesman J.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Publisher(s)
Routledge
Abstract
In the current study, we observed 12 mothers with a 4–21-month-old infant during their daily activities for around 3 h per dyad, focusing on daily caregiving practices such as feeding, bathing, and soothing in the rural multiple-caregiver cultural contexts of the Andean and Amazonian parts of Peru. Overall, sensitivity levels were high, with an average of 7.33 (out of 9), and 7 out of the 12 mothers scoring in the high range (scores 7–9), and the remaining 5 in the good-enough range (scores 5–6). In-depth descriptions of mother–infant interactions show that these high sensitivity levels reflect mothers’ ability to multitask, combining household and agricultural chores with high sensitive responsiveness to their infants’ signals. The presence of multiple caregivers seemed to allow mothers to make sure the infants were well attended when they were temporarily unavailable but combined with quick renewed availability if the infant seemed to need maternal proximity.
Start page
1
End page
9
Language
English English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85044453710
Source
Attachment and Human Development
ISSN of the container
14616734
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