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How some dyads “fail”: A qualitative analysis with implications for nursing practice
Author(s) -
Gross Deborah
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0355(198323)4:3<272::aid-imhj2280040309>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - psychology , mentally ill , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , nursing practice , mentally retarded , qualitative research , qualitative analysis , clinical psychology , nursing , medicine , mental health , psychotherapist , mental illness , quantum mechanics , physics , social science , sociology
Videotapes of 20 mentally ill and 20 matched well mothers with their three month through 36‐month‐old‐children were analyzed in a two‐part study. Part I tested the usefulness of the Maternal Sensitivity Scale and the Maternal Effectiveness Scale in discriminating mentally ill and well mother‐child dyads. Part II analyzed the interactions of those dyads that were rated low on the scales in Part I (n = 13) to explore maladaptive patterns of behavior which may explain how the insensitivity and ineffectiveness unfolded. Seven characteristics that were observed to contribute to the interactive disorganization in these 13 dyads are described and discussed.