Tiffany Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 457173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiffany Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiffany |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7186-7048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Low paternal postpartum depression buffers the association between maternal prenatal depression and preschoolers' internalizing and externalizing symptoms
Examining the impact and interplay of maternal and paternal perinatal mental health problems enhances understanding of the etiology of mental health problems in early childhood. This study investigated associations between maternal and paternal prenatal (first trimester) and postnatal (3 and 30 months) anxiety and depression symptoms and preschoolers' internalizing and externalizing symptoms. The sample included 115 preschoolers and their parents…
Emotion and Early Interaction
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions
Mother‐infant interactions are co‐regulated and provide the foundation for mother‐infant relationship quality. The implications of maternal depression and contextual demands (i.e., reinstating the interaction following maternal unavailability and vocalized infant distress) on observationally coded co‐regulation in mother‐infant dyads ( n = 40) at 4‐months was investigated. Associations among co‐regulation patterns and mother‐infant relationship q…
Social touch, CT touch and massage therapy
Prenatal depression effects on early development
Tracking the Blogs
This study employed Benoit's functional theory of presidential discourse to examine the incidence of attacks, acclaims, and rebuttals on four politically aligned blogs and six politically nonaligned blogs. Results suggest that candidates use their own blogs for acclaims, political parties use their blogs to level attacks against opponents, and rebuttals on blogs are rare. These findings are contrasted with the entries on six politically nonaligne…
Postpartum depression effects on early interactions, parenting, and safety practices
Touch for socioemotional and physical well-being
Complementary and alternative therapies research
"Psychologists and other health practitioners frequently work with patients whose symptoms only partially respond to traditional therapies. Other patients may have been diagnosed with a medical illness and need help coping with both the illness and its treatment. In these and other cases, therapists may wish to consider interventions from among those collectively known as complementary andalternative therapies. This book describes the most common…
Massage therapy research
Still‐face and separation effects on depressed mother‐infant interactions
Maternal emotional and physical unavailability have differential effects on infant interaction behavior as noted in a study by Field, Vega‐Lahr, Scafidi, and Goldstein (1986). In that study, four‐month‐old infants experienced their mother's still face and a brief separation from the mother. Spontaneous interactions preceded and followed these to serve as baseline and reunion episodes. Although the infants became more negative and agitated during …
Maternal Psychological Distress, Prenatal Cortisol, and Fetal Weight
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the effects of maternal psychological distress on estimated fetal weight during midgestation and explore the maternal hypothalamic–pituitary axis and sympathoadrenal dysregulation as potential risk factors for these effects. Methods: Fetal ultrasound biometry measurements and maternal sociodemographic characteristics, emotional distress symptoms, and first morning urine samples were collected …
Haptic Habituation to Temperature Is Slower in Newborns of Depressed Mothers
Forty newborns ( M age = 27 hr old) of depressed and nondepressed mothers were habituated to a cold or warm temperature tube by hand. Both groups of infants habituated the temperature of the tube, as indicated by a decrease in holding, and dishabituated, as indexed by an increase in holding when the temperature of the tube changed. However, the newborns of depressed mothers (a) required twice as long to habituate; (b) showed a sensitization effec…
Atypical Expressions of Jealousy in Infants of Intrusive- and Withdrawn-Depressed Mothers
Infants’ Need for Touch
Depressed mothers' newborns show longer habituation and fail to show face/voice preference
Twenty neonates of depressed and nondepressed mothers failed to show an initial visual preference for their mother's versus a female stranger's face/voice. Subsequently, infants were habituated to their mother's face and voice. Infants of depressed mothers required 1/3 more trials and almost twice as long to habituate. A posthabituation test with their mother and a different female stranger revealed a preference for the stranger's face for 9 out …
Maternal self‐perceptions and reactions to infant crying among intrusive and withdrawn depressed mothers
This study compared intrusive ( N =15) and withdrawn ( N = 10) mothers' ratings of their own interaction styles with their infants and the behaviors of videotaped models of intrusive and withdrawn mothers. Withdrawn mothers rated themselves as less withdrawn than the model withdrawn mother. Intrusive mothers viewed themselves as more intrusive than the model intrusive mother. Both groups viewed their own infants as more outgoing than the infants …
BIS/BAS scores are correlated with frontal EEG asymmetry in intrusive and withdrawn depressed mothers
Differences between different style‐depressed mothers, intrusive and withdrawn, were examined by the use of the Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Scales (BIS/BAS) and EEG activity from the mid‐frontal and parietal regions. Analyses revealed that withdrawn mothers had left frontal EEG hypoactivation, higher Behavior Inhibition (BIS), and lower Behavior Activation (BAS) scores than the intrusive mothers. Further analysis revealed that the BIS, t…
"Massage therapy effects"
"Massage therapy effects"
Right Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Lack of Empathy in Preschool Children of Depressed Mothers
Less exploring by mouth occurs in newborns of depressed mothers
Twenty-four newborns (M age = 12 days) of depressed and nondepressed mothers were assessed for oral perception of a nubby and smooth texture. Both groups of newborns discriminated between these textures and showed a sucking preference for the smooth texture. However, the newborns of depressed mothers spent 50% less time orally exploring the stimuli, one-third less time exploring the more novel nubby texture, and 59% less time mouthing the smooth …
Less exploring by mouth occurs in newborns of depressed mothers
Twenty-four newborns (M age = 12 days) of depressed and nondepressed mothers were assessed for oral perception of a nubby and smooth texture. Both groups of newborns discriminated between these textures and showed a sucking preference for the smooth texture. However, the newborns of depressed mothers spent 50% less time orally exploring the stimuli, one-third less time exploring the more novel nubby texture, and 59% less time mouthing the smooth …
One-Year-Old Infants of Intrusive and Withdrawn Depressed Mothers
Depressed” fathers' interactions with their infants
Four groups (N = 80 families) of depressed (depressive symptoms) and nondepressed fathers and mothers were compared during interactions with their 3- to 6-month-old infants to determine how depressed versus nondepressed fathers interacted with their infants and how their interactions compared with depressed mothers interacting with their infants. Depressed and nondepressed fathers received similar ratings and depressed fathers received higher int…
Behavior-state matching and synchrony in mother-infant interactions of nondepressed versus depressed dyads
The purpose of the study was to assess the degree to which depressed mother-infant dyads, relative to nondepressed mother-infant dyads,matched behavior states on a continuous scale from negative to neutral to positive affect. Furthermore, interaction synchrony in these two groups was determined by measuring the coherence of the dyads' behavior time series
Pregnancy problems, postpartum depression, and early mother–infant interactions
Interaction behaviors of primary versus secondary caretaker fathers
Facial expressivity in infants of depressed mothers
Facial expressions were examined in 84 3-month-old infants of mothers classified as depressed, nondepressed, or low scoring on the Beck Depression Inventory. Mother-infant dyads were videotaped during a 3-min face-to-face play interaction, and the videotapes were coded by using the AFFEX facial expression coding system. Infants of both depressed and low-scoring mothers showed significantly more sadness and anger expressions and fewer interest exp…
Massage therapy effects
Relative right frontal EEG activation in 3- to 6-month-old infants of "depressed" mothers
Brain electrical activity (electroencephalogram; EEG) was recorded from left and right frontal (F) and parietal (P) scalp regions (F3, F4, P3, and P4, referenced to the central vertex site, Cz) in a sample of depressed and nondepressed mothers and their 3-6-month-old infants. A greater number of depressed mothers and their infants vs. nondepressed mothers and their infants displayed right frontal EEG asymmetry. These data indicate that the depres…
Infant day care facilitates preschool social behavior
Fantasy play of toddlers and preschoolers
Cardiac and behavioral responses to repeated tactile and auditory stimulation by preterm and term neonates
Maternal stimulation during infant feeding
Still‐face and separation effects on depressed mother‐infant interactions
Maternal emotional and physical unavailability have differential effects on infant interaction behavior as noted in a study by Field, Vega‐Lahr, Scafidi, and Goldstein (1986). In that study, four‐month‐old infants experienced their mother's still face and a brief separation from the mother. Spontaneous interactions preceded and followed these to serve as baseline and reunion episodes. Although the infants became more negative and agitated during …
Infants Protest Their Mothers’ Attending to an Infant‐Size Doll
Twelve‐month old infants (N = 76) experienced 4 situations of unresponsiveness in which their mothers and a stranger directed positive attention toward a doll or a picture book while they ignored the infant. Infants demonstrated more protest, negative vocalizations and inhibited play during the doll condition, particularly if the doll was held by the mother. Infant contacts with the mother were more frequent when the mother held the doll. Infants…
Depressed mothers' newborns show longer habituation and fail to show face/voice preference
Twenty neonates of depressed and nondepressed mothers failed to show an initial visual preference for their mother's versus a female stranger's face/voice. Subsequently, infants were habituated to their mother's face and voice. Infants of depressed mothers required 1/3 more trials and almost twice as long to habituate. A posthabituation test with their mother and a different female stranger revealed a preference for the stranger's face for 9 out …
Behavior-state matching and synchrony in mothernfant interactions of nondepressed versus depressed dyads
Pregnancy problems, postpartum depression, and early mother-infant interactions
Separation stress of young children transferring to new schools
Maternal self‐perceptions and reactions to infant crying among intrusive and withdrawn depressed mothers
This study compared intrusive ( N =15) and withdrawn ( N = 10) mothers' ratings of their own interaction styles with their infants and the behaviors of videotaped models of intrusive and withdrawn mothers. Withdrawn mothers rated themselves as less withdrawn than the model withdrawn mother. Intrusive mothers viewed themselves as more intrusive than the model intrusive mother. Both groups viewed their own infants as more outgoing than the infants …
BIS/BAS scores are correlated with frontal EEG asymmetry in intrusive and withdrawn depressed mothers
Differences between different style‐depressed mothers, intrusive and withdrawn, were examined by the use of the Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Scales (BIS/BAS) and EEG activity from the mid‐frontal and parietal regions. Analyses revealed that withdrawn mothers had left frontal EEG hypoactivation, higher Behavior Inhibition (BIS), and lower Behavior Activation (BAS) scores than the intrusive mothers. Further analysis revealed that the BIS, t…
Behavior state matching during interactions of preadolescent friends versus acquaintances
Face-to-face interactions of 56 sixth-grade friend and acquaintance pairs were videotaped, heart rate was recorded, and saliva cortisol was sampled. During interactions the friend dyads were more attentive, affectively positive, vocal, active, involved, relaxed, and playful, and their cortisol values suggested lower stress levels. They also spent more time together in mutually interested and animated states, and they assigned higher ratings to li…
Maternal stimulation during infant feeding
Mothers' assessments of term and pre-term infants with respiratory distress syndrome
Interaction behaviors of primary versus secondary caretaker fathers
Games parents play with normal and high-risk infants
Cardiac and behavioral responses to repeated tactile and auditory stimulation by preterm and term neonates
Early Developmental Hazards
Teenage, Lower-Class, Black Mothers and Their Preterm Infants
Fathers' interactions with their high-risk infants
Fathers' face-to-face interactions with their 4-month-old high-risk infants were compared to mothers' interactions with the same infants and to those interactions of fathers and mothers of normal infants. The high-risk infants were less attentive and less affectively responsive than normal infants, and their mothers were more active. Fathers of both high-risk and normal infants engaged in more game playing and laughed more frequently than mothers…
Discrimination and Imitation of Facial Expression by Neonates
Human neonates (average age, 36 hours) discriminated three facial expressions (happy, sad, and surprised) posed by a live model as evidenced by diminished visual fixation on each face over trials and renewed fixations to the presentation of a different face. The expressions posed by the model, unseen by the observer, were guessed at greater than chance accuracy simply by observing the face of the neonate, whose facial movements in the brow, eyes,…
Developmental effects of an intervention for preterm infants of teenage mothers
Since preterm infants and infants born to teenage mothers are noted to be at risk for developmental delays, a group of infants who were both preterm and born to teenage mothers was provided a sensorimotor exercise intervention program for the first year of infancy. The development of these infants was compared to the development of preterm infants without intervention and term infants of teenage mothers as well as term and preterm infants of adul…
Fantasy play of toddlers and preschoolers
A descriptive study of facial expressions during Brazelton Neonatal Behavior Assessments
The facial expressions of 96 term and preterm neonates were recorded during the Brazelton Neonatal Behavior Assessment. The expressions that occurred most frequently during the neurological reflex items were interest, disgust, sadness, and crying. The predominant facial expression during the orienting items was that of interest. Although happy and surprised faces were more common during the orienting than the reflex items, they occurred very infr…
Separation stress of young children transferring to new schools
Infants' responses to mothers' imitative behaviors
Several investigators have suggested that young infants' smiles and vocalizations following their mothers' imitative behaviors might reflect infant recognition that the mother's behavior is imitative or at least contingent. This study investigated whether infants smile and vocalize more frequently subsequent to maternal imitative than non-imitative behavior during both spontaneous and imitative face-to-face interactions. Fourteen 3 1/2-month-old …
Affective behavior and weight changes among hospitalized failure-to-thrive infants
The affective behavior and weight change of 12 nonorganic failure-to-thrive, 12 organic failure-to-thrive, and 12 control infants (M age = 8 months) were compared across their hospitalization. Infant affect was evaluated at approximately the beginning, middle, and endpoints of hospitalization using the Behavioral Assessment Scale. Among the failure-to-thrive infants, positive responses to stimulation at the initial assessment were related to weig…
Pregnancy problems, postpartum depression, and early mother-infant interactions
Pregnancy problems, postpartum depression, and early mother–infant interactions
Models for reactive and chronic depression in infancy
Recent studies suggest that maternal deprivation may predispose the infant to chronic depression, and the effects of early separations from the mother may provide a model for reactive depression
Play interactions and interviews of depressed and conduct disorder children and their mothers
Temperament and play interaction behavior across infancy
Temporal stability and convergent validity of infant temperament ratings and play interaction behaviors were examined across early to late infancy. Stability was noted for the temperament dimensions activity, rhythmicity, intensity, mood, and persistence. Stability also was noted for the infant play interaction behaviors looking, smiling, and vocalizing. In addition, convergent validity was noted for attentive-affective behaviors and comparable t…
Working mother‐infant interactions across the second year of life
Play interactions between 36 college-educated, middle-income, working mothers and their infants, who had attended nursery school since 1 month of age, were videotaped when the infants were 12, 18, and 24 months of age. The videotapes were coded for mother and infant looking at each other, vocalizing, affectionate play, and constructive play. Changes noted in the infants' play behaviors across this period included an increase in infant vocalizatio…
Infants of Depressed Mothers Show "Depressed" Behavior Even with Nondepressed Adults
Tiffany Field, Brian Healy, Sheri Goldstein, Susan Perry, Debra Bendell, Saul Schanberg, Eugene A. Zimmerman, Cynthia Kuhn, Infants of Depressed Mothers Show "Depressed" Behavior Even with Nondepressed Adults, Child Development, Vol. 59, No. 6 (Dec., 1988), pp. 1569-1579
Infant day care facilitates preschool social behavior
Stressors during pregnancy and the postnatal period
For those medical procedures that are necessary with preterm infants, the question arises as to whether various forms of soothing stimulation can be applied during the procedures to alleviate their stressful effects
Teenage parenting in different cultures, family constellations, and caregiving environments
Teenage parenting was investigated in different ethnic groups (Cuban and American Black), family constellations (single-parent, nuclear, and extended families), and primary caregiving arrangements (mother versus other). One hundred sixty-four infants born to a representative sample of teenage mothers were observed during interactions with their mothers and were given developmental assessments when they were 12, 18, and 24 months of age. Being a C…
Psychology (75 works) · Developmental psychology (62 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (44 works) · Clinical Psychology (30 works) · Medicine (30 works) · Psychiatry (27 works) · Infant Health and Development (20 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (19 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (18 works) · Social Psychology (17 works)