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Self and other dialogue in infancy: Normal versus compromised developmental pathways
Author(s) -
Stone Sarah Ahlander,
DeKoeyerLaros Ilse,
Fogel Alan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cad.20015
Subject(s) - dialogical self , normative , psychology , developmental psychology , persistence (discontinuity) , relation (database) , self , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , database , computer science , engineering
Dialogical Self Theory, co‐regulation, and foundational movement analysis are used to present a description of the development of the dialogical self during the first five months of life using observations of two mother‐infant dyads. Susan and her mother illustrate normative emergence of the dialogical self. Susan's I ‐positions emerge through positive interactions with her mother, for example, through body positioning and dialogue in a flexible yield–push pattern. Peter, another infant we observed, and his mother show how the development of the dialogical self may be disrupted or delayed as rigid boundaries are formed between the mother and infant. Peter's tendency to withdraw, coupled with his mother's persistence at diminishing his positions, results in both avoidant and ambiguous monological positions in relation to his mother. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.