Parental Cognition and Care-taking of Infant Cries

Abstract

　　This paper aims to clarify the relation between cognition of parents and their ways of care taking of the infant cries and to reveal the cognitive framework is correlated with the daily stress of parents. Thirteen mothers and thirteen fathers with preschool children, rated the cries of the low-and high-complications infants, and noted the questionnarie about care-taking of the cries. The results were as follows: (1) No differences of cognition to the cries were indicated between mothers and fathers, (2) Both mothers and fathers were albe to discriminate two kinds of cries, and in regard to high-complications infant cries, (3) In case the cognition is aversiver they selected the urgent ways of caretaking more than the others, (4) The numbers mothers didn't know the cause of the infant cries were related to their cognition of aversiveness. (5) Negative cognition of mothers is correlated with their daily stress of child rearing. These results mean that mothers and fathers might have the relation between cognition and their ways of caretaking of infant cries, furthermore the mothers' cognition might be relivant with their child rearing through mother infant interaction.