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2063.3 Six-month developmental follow-up of classrooms effectiveness by the Matsuyama
Health Center: Monitoring the change in parent-child relations, Nakako Fujikawa, Matsuyama
Shinonome Junior College, Japan
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of the developmental follow-up classes for
slightly handicapped children (1-2 & 3-4 age class) given by the Matsuyama Health Center. 217
pairs of children and their parents participated in the classes from 2000 to 2002. The assessment of
the classes was made from four aspects: Children’s psychological development, the changes in
child-parent relations, parents’ comments, and relevant choices of courses made. Results showed
that the follow-up classes were effective on all four measures. Findings are discussed in terms of
the effects of the classes on the improvement of parent-child interactions.
2063.4 The relationship between infants’ temperaments characteristics and the PLOC of their
parents, Ling Li 1 , Lifang Lai 2 , 1 East China Normal University, China; 2 Shanghai Municipal
Kindergarten, China
The temperaments of 97 children of 5-44-month old were tested by Carey & McDevitt’s RITQ,
TTS, BSQ. The parental locus of control of these children’ parents were assessed by the PLOC of
Campis et al. Results showed that: 1) most of the children were easy-fostered; 2) most of the
parents were more confident of their child-fostering-abilities; 3) the children’ ages,
temperament-types and the 9 dimensions of their temperaments affected their parents’ PLOC at
different degree.
2063.5 Effects of previous motor experience on learning for relation between infant voluntary
activity and change of environment during the conjugate reinforcement mobile task, Hama
Watanabe 1 , Gentaro Taga 1 , Keisuke Kushiro 1 , Kayo Asakawa 2 , 1 University of Tokyo, Japan;
2
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
We focused on developmental changes in motor patterns of limbs during the conjugate
reinforcement mobile task, and examined how infants’ previous motor patterns and memory for
them affect subsequent learning for relation between infants’ voluntary activity and movement of a
mobile. Two- to four-month-old infants were assigned to two conditions for order of reinforcement;
1) arm to leg, 2) leg to arm. The increasing rate of arm activity followed by leg reinforcement
were higher than that of leg activity followed by arm reinforcement, and it suggested a possibility
of different learning and memory process depending on particular physical activities.
2063.6 The relation between mother’s responsiveness and self-perception of the parental role,
Sueko Toda, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan
To examine the relation between mother's responsiveness to infant and self-perception of the
parental role, 27 mother and infant dyads participated, and mother's responsiveness to infant's
attention and voice was observed at 5 months of age. Mothers filled out the questionnaire which
consists of 22 items (parental role). The results showed that girl's mothers were satisfied with
themselves as parent more than boy's mothers. Also, their responsiveness to infant's attention to
objects was correlated to constraint of parental role. Boy's mothers wanted to know the
information about childrearing more than girl's mothers. These results will be discussed at the
conference.
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