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INFANT-CAREGIVER INTERACTION IN GOVERNMENT CHILDCARE INSTITUTION: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY”

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Title INFANT-CAREGIVER INTERACTION IN GOVERNMENT CHILDCARE INSTITUTION: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY”
 
Creator NAGITHA, D
 
Contributor UMA DEVI, L
 
Subject biological phenomena, economic systems, marketing, sets, selection, sampling, sexual reproduction, stimulants, manpower, social sciences
 
Description Attachment is a strong, long-lasting emotional connection, an emotional bond that is
person-specific and is enduring across time. The first attachment relationships experienced by
the child affects his/her capacity to trust people and the development of emotional regulation.
The development of the child’s social skills, empathy, ego-resiliency, and his/her
psychosocial and emotional survival in general, are all strictly connected to his/her first
attachment relationships. The most important emotional ties a child builds are those created
before she/he reaches five years of age. In general, studies suggest that infants and young
children who are raised in institutions as typically operated develop more poorly than
children who are raised at home and have not been institutionalized. The research, which is
fairly substantial, tends to focus on outcomes such as a child’s physical growth and general
behavioral development as measured by standardized tests that include cognition, language,
personal-social, motor and adaptive behaviors.
The present study was a observational study was undertaken to study the interpersonal
interactions between the caregiver and infant in a government child care institution of
children from birth to 30 months in order to understand the interactional or attachment
patterns of caregivers with children in different informal settings like feeding, sleeping,
playing etc. video clippings from Sishu Vihar were analyzed for caregiver infant interactions
using observational behavior software.
The study revealed that the infants and young children expressed very less positive
and negative behavior. Infants from birth to 6 months of age express more positive and
negative behaviour than the young children of 7-30 months of age. The duration for which
the behaviour exhibited was also more in birth-6 month’s infants. The overall positive
behaviour like care giving, holding, making eye contact, smiling and vocalization was found
be less in care givers of 7-30 months age. The negative behaviour of like not maintaining
eye contact, not verbalizing with child, attending others were found more in care givers of
birth-6 months infants.
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The observational study further revealed that infants from birth-30 months showed
positive behaviours like smiling and vocalizing more than other positive behaviours like
being happy, showing excitement, imitating. The caregivers were attending to the physical
needs of the infants but the other important need i.e social and emotional were neglected.
Caregivers though exhibited positive behaviour like vocalizing, maintaining eye contact,
holding the child, it was found in very few observations and only for short duration of time.
Another important finding of the study was that positive behavior of caregivers of 7-30
months was less than the caregivers of infants less than 6 months. The care givers of
institutionalized infants showed negative behavior like interacting with others, not
maintaining eye contact. The negative behavior was found to be more in caregivers of infants
below 6 months age.
After knowing the results of the study guidelines for the caregivers like maintaining
eye contact, physical touch, interacting with the child, providing rich socio emotional
environment were recommended.
 
Date 2017-01-03T09:49:15Z
2017-01-03T09:49:15Z
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94040
 
Language en
 
Relation D9914;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher PROFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY. HYDERABAD