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Emotional Perceptions of Pregnant Women and Husbands on Babies' Cries

영아울음소리에 대한 임산 부부의 정서적 지각

  • Kim, Yeoun Jung (Hana Parent Information Center, Hana Child Clinic) ;
  • Chung, Mi Ra (Department of Early Childhood Education, Gachon University)
  • Received : 2012.07.01
  • Accepted : 2012.08.16
  • Published : 2012.10.30
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Abstract

This study examined the consciousness of husbands and wives on babies' cries and its factors which have impacts on their emotional perceptions. For this study, infants' cries were recorded with the participation of 136 pregnant women and 76 husbands, and they conducted self-evaluations regarding their emotional perceptions and personal characteristics. The stimulus used to exhibit the cries of infants were from eighteen recorded cry sample under three situations (hunger, pain, and mother's absence) with six healthy infants (three male and three female) who are over six months. Also, this study dealt with the relationship between emotional assessment and the personal characteristics of mothers and fathers. As a result, the experience of child-rearing has a positive influence on the emotional cry perceptions of husbands and wives, and there was no sex difference in their emotional cry perceptions. A change of recognition, "being parents," has impacts on emotional cry perceptions, but the major factors increasing these impacts depend on the physiological changes of pregnant women and their personal characteristics.

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