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Pay attention to your baby for emotional well being

Darpan News Desk IANS, 27 Oct, 2014 07:28 AM
  • Pay attention to your baby for emotional well being
If a mother responds more sensitively to her baby during playtime, the child is less likely to display callous, unemotional behaviour as a toddler, new research has discovered.
 
Callous and unemotional behaviour includes a lack of guilt and empathy, reduced concern for others' distress and difficulties with understanding emotions.
 
An infant's preference for a person's face, rather than an object, is associated with lower levels of callous and unemotional behaviour during childhood, the findings showed.
 
"This study takes us a step further in understanding the earliest origins of callous and unemotional behaviour," said co-researcher Rachael Bedford from King's College London in Britain.
 
The study involved 213 five-week-old infants. The researchers assessed if the infants spent longer tracking a person's face compared to an inanimate object - in this case a red ball.
 
Greater tracking of the face relative to the ball was linked to lower callous unemotional behaviour when children were two and a half years old.
 
"Callous and unemotional behaviour in children are known to be associated with an increased emotional burden on families as well as later criminality and anti-social behaviour," Bedford concluded.
 
The study appeared in the journal Biological Psychiatry.

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