Concepções parentais sobre o desenvolvimento e a habilidade de comunicação intencional no primeiro ano de vida do bebê

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Laísy de Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/13451
• topic: Concepções parentais; Desenvolvimento inicial; Habilidade de comunicação intencional; Parental conceptions; Initial development; Intentional communication ability; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The process of development of new acquisitions by infants, from a historiccultural point of view, is permeated by co-constructive and bidirectional actions. Infant abilities are meaningful in the social context that the baby is found, and their behaviors are continuously improving as they develop. Among the factors involved in this process, the way parents conceive their children’s development have an influence, directly or indirectly, over their practices. The present thesis aimed at investigating parental conceptions about their babies’ first year development, with focus on the conceptions about the development of the intentional communication ability. It showed a longitudinal lineation, with the participation of 20 mothers and 20 fathers of babies of 3, 6, 9, and 12-months old. The participants’ ages ranged between 20 and 36 years old. The tools used were a socio-demographic questionnaire and two semi-structured interviews. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed in accordance with the guidelines of the content’s analysis. Outcomes showed that, in the parents’ view, the new acquisitions by infants allow a higher rate of interaction between caregivers and babies. Most of the participants mentioned the stimulations as aspects that may promote development, and presented conceptions that recognize the parental role as essential for their children’s healthy development. In relation to the conceptions about the intentional communication ability, it turned out that the parental reports, especially when babies were in the second semester of age, indicated specific infant behaviors that may show these abilities. The mothers figure that babies are able to feel emotions, mainly the positive ones, as well as recognize emotions from others, and point at a higher frequency than that reported by fathers. These data suggest that mothers perceive the development of positive aspects of infant intentionality somewhat earlier than do the fathers. Fathers, in turn, comprehend that their babies are able to feel sadness, guilt, and that they can deliberately behave rather negatively before mothers are able to realize such aspect. In spite of this difference, fathers seem to know the stages of their babies’ development, and feature congruent conceptions regarding infant development as well. We assume that the present study contributes with all the field of research of developmental psychology, and may help in the basis of professional practices. Considering the theoretical referential used, empirical results, and the bibliographic search carried on, proposals of guidelines were made for the elaboration of orientation programs meant to promote infant development by means of actions targeting parents and educators.