Behavior-state matching and synchrony in mother-infant interactions of nondepressed versus depressed dyads.
Developmental PsychologyPublished 1 January 1990
Tiffany Field, Brian Healy, Sheri Goldstein, Moshe Guthertz
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Abstract
The purpose of the study was to assess the degree to which depressed mother-infant dyads, relative to nondepressed mother-infant dyads,matched behavior states on a continuous scale from negative to neutral to positive affect. Furthermore, interaction synchrony in these two groups was determined by measuring the coherence of the dyads' behavior time series
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