04/22/2021
Research Opportunity for mothers and their infants:
The Center for Attachment Research at the New School for Social Research is collaborating with the Lab of Action & Body at Royal Holloway University of London, in a range of projects that investigate how the awareness of our own body influences the ways in which we become aware of ourselves and of others. As part of our collaboration, we would like to bring your attention to a new online study launched by the Lab of Action & Body, which investigates the role of interoception in mother-infant relationships, as well as the influence of the mother’s body image across pregnancy and postnatally. We are interested in how awareness of the body and its internal sensations may influence caregiving behaviours between mothers and their infants.
We are recruiting women with a baby between 6 to 18 months old to participate in this online research study, which lasts approximately 15-20 minutes. We can reimburse you £2.50 GBP ($3.65 USD) or you can enter a prize draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher (~$70 USD). Read on to find out what the study involves.
To understand how women experience internal bodily sensations, the study involves an exciting task where we ask you to count your heartbeats, without taking your pulse. During the task, we will record three short videos of you whilst you silently count your heartbeats, so it is necessary that you have access to a computer or laptop with a we**am. By video recording you during the task, we can estimate your heartbeats in an interesting way. Whenever our heart beats, blood flows around our body and results in tiny changes in the colour of our skin, and it is possible to pick up these changes by using a computer-based method to analyse the video recordings. Finally, the study includes a few questionnaires about body awareness, body satisfaction, and caregiving behaviours.
If this sounds interesting to you, please click on the following link, where you will find more details about the study before agreeing to take part. You must access the link from a computer or laptop with a we**am, using Google Chrome as your internet browser, and we ask that you complete the study during the daytime. Study link: https://tinyurl.com/mother-baby-study.
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