Treating twins as individuals: Maternal educative practices |
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| Authors: | Catherine Tourrette Monique Robin Denise Josse |
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| Institution: | 1. Département de Psychologie, Université de Poitiers, 95 avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022, Poitiers Cedex
2. I.N.S.E.R.M., Unité 187, 32 rue des Carnets, 92140, Clamart, France
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| Abstract: | For twins’ parents, the process of building up each child’s individuality is more complex than for singleton’s parents. The dyadic interaction becomes a triadic situation and the mother has to face the problem of distinguishing one twin from the other without comparing them. The analysis of mother’s twin care patterns provides highly relevant information on the processes promoting twins’ individualization and maternal adjustment to the triadic situation. An empirical study illustrates this point of view. It surveys forty parents of twins on their attitudes towards twin rearing and observes parental behaviour in the home to assess consistency between statements of actual practices. Observation and correspondence analysis show that: I) Some types of child care are more conductive to implementing differentiation strategies than others (dress and choice of toys in contrast to bedtime and meals); 2) mothers of twins who are explicit about child rearing practices are generally coherent about putting them into practice; mothers with less explicit views are less inclined to try to individualize their twins; 3) SES and degree of physical resemblance between twins both affect the type of differentiation strategies. |
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