Abstract
The article studies the dominant role of the child-mother relationships in the development and formation of personality of the infants and young children with Down syndrome. The article contains the information about the distortion of the child-mother relationships which leads to the different disorders of the mental development of a child. The article describes the construct of “inner maternal position”. It contains the methods and results of investigation aimed at revealing and study of peculiarities of the inner maternal position. It also describes the possible targets of psychological and pedagogical aid depending on the variant of the inner maternal position.
Highlights
Modern psychological and pedagogical literature often contains the opinion about the importance of child-parents relationships quality and about its crucial role in the development and personality formation of Down syndrome infants and young children
The analysis of the Attitude colour test (ACT) results of both control and experimental group allowed us to point out four variants of the inner maternal position
In order to prove this supposition we conducted the comparison of the results of the US EAAtM projective variant between these sub-groups. The rightfulness of such comparison can be conditioned by the fact that the ACT method and projective variant of US EAAtM are addressed to the nonconscious components of the motivation level of the inner maternal position and are aimed at the indirect revealing of the motivational formations which condition the behaviour of a mother while interacting with a child
Summary
Modern psychological and pedagogical literature often contains the opinion about the importance of child-parents relationships quality and about its crucial role in the development and personality formation of Down syndrome infants and young children. A lot of investigators point out that the basis for the development of all types of activity of a Down syndrome infant and young child as well as his/her relationships with the world is his/her interrelations with a mother or other important adult, and the distortion of child-parents relationships leads to the emotional and behavioural problems, mental, motor, psychological and psychosomatic development disorders (Ainswort & Bowlby, 1991; Bern, 2010; Winnicott, 2004; Vygotskiy, 2006; Leontiev, 2005; Lisina, 2009). Spivakovskaya can tell us about the “parental position” (Spivakovskaya, 1989), Aivazyan (2008) and Zakharova (1997) speaks of the inner maternal position in the works of western authors the term “mother’s devotion to a child” is used (Leifer, 1977; Mercer, 2004)
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