Open AccessMATERNAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE
Author(s) -
Elisa Rachel Pisani Altafim,
Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim Rodrigues
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of human growth and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.218
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2175-3598
pISSN - 0104-1282
DOI - 10.7322/jhgd.105999
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , repertoire , promotion (chess) , psychology , developmental psychology , positive parenting , parenting styles , health promotion , medicine , intervention (counseling) , nursing , public health , psychiatry , physics , politics , political science , acoustics , law
Introduction: The strategies used by parents in education and childcare play a major role in the child’s development and health. Objective: To describe and analyse the maternal educational practices during the first year of life. Method: A total of 250 mothers of infants between 1-12 months participated in the study. The data was collected using the Parental Styles Inventory for Mothers of Babies (IEPMB). Results: Mothers used the positive parenting practice: Monitoring Positive. However negative practices were also present in the repertoire of the participants, especially Relaxed Discipline. Conclusion: The negative practices were not common in the behavioural repertoire of the mothers, so this phase is an appropriate stage to promote preventative interventions aimed at improving the mother-infant relationship, and therefore impacting health prevention, health promotion and child development.