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- Ainsworth highlighted the importance of maternal sensitivity by describing both the observable behaviors of mothers and their internal thought processes, such as empathy for their child's perspective.
- While researchers typically focused on these behaviors through observations and interviews, they often inferred internal processes rather than directly measuring them.
- The Insightfulness Assessment (IA) was created to directly evaluate mothers' understanding of their children's feelings by using video clips, and evidence indicates that it can enhance our understanding of maternal sensitivity alongside traditional observational methods.
Article Abstract
In her description of sensitive mothers, Ainsworth described not only maternal behaviors but also the internal processes underlying such behavior, including the capacity to "see things from the child's point of view". Ainsworth assessed this capacity from her extensive observations of mothers interacting with their infants, from records of mothers' talk to the babies, and from brief interviews about their babies. Attachment researchers following Ainsworth focused primarily on observations of maternal sensitive behavior, however, and the processes underlying such behavior were mostly inferred from the mothers' behavior. The Insightfulness Assessment (IA), a video replay procedure in which mothers are interviewed regarding their children's thoughts and feelings after they watch brief video clips of their children, was developed to assess systematically and directly the mother's ability to take the child's perspective. This paper uses examples from the IA to show how it captures many of the internal processes underlying caregiving behavior which Ainsworth described. Data supporting the IA's validity is reviewed, which suggest that the IA can complement observations of mothers' caregiving behavior in order to obtain a more comprehensive assessment of maternal sensitivity.
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