Percepções e expectativas maternas acerca das habilidades sociocomunicativas e linguísticas de bebês gemelares

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Gabriela Marcolino Alves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Percepção e expectativas maternas; Bebês gêmeos(as); Desenvolvimento sociocomunicativo e linguístico; Twin babies; Sociocommunicative and language development; Maternal perception and expectations; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8891

ABSTRACT – The social interactions of the child are fundamental for the childish development and language. In this context we highlight the role of adults in the provision of care, stimulation and creation of contexts that foster this development. This development is also affected by perceptions that parents, especially mothers, have about infant sociocommunicative and language skills. In addition, studies indicate that the twin condition would be one of the main aspects for an initial delay in language acquisition due to a different pattern of interaction between twins that seems not to enable the need and objective motivation of verbal communication. In this study, the discussions around this issue are supported by the historical-cultural model, which holds that during the first years of life, babies are sensitive to early interventions that would happen in their experiences and social situation of development in which they are immersed. In face of that, the objective of this study was to identify and analyze the perceptions and expectations of mothers of twins about sociocommunicative and language skills of their babies in their first two years of life. The nine mothers of twins that participated in this study were equally divided into three groups. The ages of the babies ranged between 7 and 23 months. Mothers belonged to different socioeconomic classes and levels of education, living in their own homes, with an average of 27 years (SD = 4.24). To collect the data a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semistructured interview were used. The analysis of maternal responses to the interview followed the content analysis technique proposed in Bardin (2004). The results showed variations in perceptions of mothers on the development of twin children, when considered the mother’s instructional level, the skills of the babies in their own period of development, and the experiences of these mothers with their other children. The interview analysis identified ambivalent maternal feelings that enfolds the experience with multiple births, especially relating to the discovery that they would be mothers of twins. The questions about child global development allowed raise the mothers' perception about dimensions of development, skills and temperament characteristics of twins, their expectations and factors that helped the development of their children. It is relevant to mention that most mothers recurrently used as pattern of differentiation between the twins the describing different aspects of global and language development. Specifically on maternal perceptions of sociocommunicative skills of their twin babies, the mothers reported distinctions and characteristics of the first verbal productions, gestures and behaviors of their children that they perceived sometimes as having a meaning and sometimes as indication of a communicative intention, especially in the group of mothers of babies in their second year of life. This study reaffirms the potential of mediated social interaction and culture for the development of children's social cognition and language, and argues that a better understanding of the perceptions, expectations and feelings of twin children's mothers can help create educational contexts to foster learning.