On the early development between locomotion development and social interpersonal behaviors : In relation to change into parental behaviors

The purpose of this paper is to explore relation between locomotion development and social interpersonal behavior development (social development), especially from the viewpoint in relation to change into parental behaviors. In addition to these, I tried to research at the same time that some researchers suggest recently: social development may be influenced by object operation development. Participants in the research were 190 mothers who have infants from 5 to 9 months. It took cross-sectional research using checklist and applied pass analysis after classifying into three groups (prelocomotion ; creeping locomotion ; crawling locomotion) from locomotion ability, form and term angle. Results showed that crawling locomotion group was influenced more immediately by changing of parental behaviors/consciousness than other groups. The present results imply that parental traits were came to the surface by skillful or sophisticated locomotion of infants. Finally, in discussion, I give some consideration for further research concerning between locomotion development and joint attention which is important topics in recent developmental psychology