ABSTRACT

There is evidence that sensitive responsiveness is manifested differently in varying cultural contexts. This exploratory study examines a sample of 50 South African mothers in the context of a socioeconomically deprived Township, and investigates differences between the Ainsworth sensitivity scale (that does not specify particular manifestations of sensitivity) and the Maternal Behavior Q-sort (MBQ) mini, that assesses a more specified array of behaviors. Results showed a significant but modest association between the two measures, and maternal education was related to the MBQ-mini but not the Ainsworth scores. This pattern of results appears to be due to the higher salience of social games and verbal teaching in the MBQ-mini than in the Ainsworth scale. Such behaviors are less common in South African parenting, where more physical forms of responsiveness seem more typical. A local “South African” sort was developed to capture culture-specific manifestations of sensitivity.

摘要

有证据表明，敏感的反应在不同的文化背景下表现不同。这项探索性研究在社会经济贫困的乡镇背景下检查了 50 名南非母亲的样本，并调查了 Ainsworth 敏感性量表（未指定敏感性的特定表现）与产妇行为 Q 分类 (MBQ) 迷你之间的差异，评估更具体的一系列行为。结果显示这两项指标之间存在显着但适度的关联，母亲教育与 MBQ-mini 相关，但与 Ainsworth 分数无关。这种结果模式似乎是由于 MBQ-mini 中社交游戏和口头教学的显着性高于 Ainsworth 量表。这种行为在南非的育儿中不太常见，在那里，更多物理形式的响应似乎更典型。开发了一种当地的“南非”类型，以捕捉特定于文化的敏感性表现形式。