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Effects of Early Mother-Twin Relationships from Birth to Age 3, on Twin Bonding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

M. Robin ,
H. Kheroua  and
I. Casati
M. Robin*
Affiliation:
INSERM - CNRS, Paris, France
H. Kheroua
Affiliation:
INSERM - CNRS, Paris, France
I. Casati
Affiliation:
INSERM - CNRS, Paris, France
*
INSERM, 17 rue Ferrus, 75014 Paris, France

Abstract

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Findings from an earlier phase of this research project clearly pointed to the mother's psycological adaptation inherent to the specificities of triadic interaction. Mothers' attitudes were classified in a typology ranging from “early twinness” where the two babies are treated as though they were a single unit, to attempts to create two dyadic relationships. The current program deals with the effects of the type of parent-child relationship at one year on the emergence of twin bonding. Sixty-eight families of twins (26MZ, 24DZ same sex, 18DZ different sex) are followed up from birth to the age of 3 using a method based on clinical interviews, videotaped observations, and questionnaires. The data cover mothers' rearing attitudes towards organization of babycare and outward signs of twinness, maternal representations of the relationship between the twins and observation of the children's interaction in a standardized game situation. The findings are discussed in terms of zygosity, and parental SCS.

Keywords

Mother-twin relationshipsTwin bondingFamily interactionsEarly childhood
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 41 , Issue 2-3 , July 1992 , pp. 143 - 148
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1992

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