Mothers’ sensitivity correction analysis in the context of infants’ attachment

„Mothers' Sensitivity Correction Analysis in the Context of Infants' Attachment“ SUMMARY Maternal sensitivity correction is fairly novel and unexplored field, especially in Lithuania, therefore the aim of this study is to explore mother-infant interaction characteristics after participation in sensitivity correction programme, to highlight important questions and problems, to predict possible directions for future investigations. Also it is sought to analyze maternal sensitivity changes after the correction programme. The problem of this study is a question – can maternal sensitivity be a prognostic indicator of a child attachment security. This study is also ment to describe the peculiarities of maternal sensitivity, expresiveness of depression syptomes, estimation of daily hassles and to compare their child attachment security according to their participation in intervention programme. 35 mother-infant dyads participated in this study. Part of them, that is 11 sensitive mothers constituted one control group; others – 24 that were rated as inconsistently sensitive or insensitive to their infants‘ signals, formed two other – experimental and control groups. 10 of them participated in a short-term sensitivity correction programme with video feedback, while others (14) didn‘t. The changes in maternal sensitivity (Ainsworth Maternal Sensitivity Scale) to the infants‘ signals, as well as mothers‘ perceived daily hassles (Daily Hassles Questionaire) and depressiveness (according to Beck Depression Scale) were explored, and the infants‘ level of attachment security was defined (with The Attachment Q-Set). In this study it was established, that maternal sensitivity correction programme was efective in enhancing maternal sensitivity to their infants‘ signals. It was determinated, that while enhancing maternal sensitivity to some extent, the child attachment security also grows. However while conducting mothers‘ sensitivity correction programme it is easier tp influence maternal behavior than their child attachment security