Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue Overview of the research problem and summary of findings
- 1 Relationships as developing systems: theoretical foundations
- 2 Mother-infant relationship development in the first six months: from face-to-face play to object play
- 3 Relational-historical research on developmental change
- 4 Relational-historical research: the multiple case study approach, frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis
- 5 Research propositions about relationship change processes
- 6 Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
- 7 Results of the current investigation: quantitative analysis of developmental changes in relationship frames and in infant actions
- 8 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
- 9 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Betsy and her mother
- 10 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Lewis and his mother
- 11 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Susan and her mother
- 12 Summary of findings on relational-historical change
- Epilogue Laws of change: implications for theory and practice
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
8 - Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue Overview of the research problem and summary of findings
- 1 Relationships as developing systems: theoretical foundations
- 2 Mother-infant relationship development in the first six months: from face-to-face play to object play
- 3 Relational-historical research on developmental change
- 4 Relational-historical research: the multiple case study approach, frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis
- 5 Research propositions about relationship change processes
- 6 Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
- 7 Results of the current investigation: quantitative analysis of developmental changes in relationship frames and in infant actions
- 8 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
- 9 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Betsy and her mother
- 10 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Lewis and his mother
- 11 Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Susan and her mother
- 12 Summary of findings on relational-historical change
- Epilogue Laws of change: implications for theory and practice
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
In order to understand proposition 1 historically, we have to examine the patterns of change across frames within dyads. We illustrate these historical patterns and interdyad differences with a quantitative description of frames and transitions for the four representative dyads that will be used for the qualitative analysis, followed by a detailed qualitative description of the historical processes with each dyad. In this chapter, we focus on the first of the four representative dyads, Richard and his mother. In Chapters 9–11, we review the other three representative dyads respectively. In this chapter, we also give an overview of the analytical approach.
Our criterion for selecting the four dyads was based on the development of interdyad differences. We chose two dyads in which the infants developed a preference for object play as judged by relatively higher durations, compared to the other research participants, of the not-guided object frame in the post-reaching period (Richard and Betsy and their mothers). We chose two comparison dyads that showed relatively lower durations in not-guided object frames, and relatively higher durations in the mixed social-object frame during the post-reach period (Lewis and Susan and their mothers). These two pairs of dyads, therefore, correspond to the interdyad differences found in the literature (see Chapter 2): dyads that are relatively more focused on object play compared to dyads that are relatively more focused on social play. Betsy and her mother were African-American and the other dyads were Caucasian-American.
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- Change Processes in RelationshipsA Relational-Historical Research Approach, pp. 128 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006